Just venting: Whole Foods complaints

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain what’s wrong with seed oils?

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Anonymous wrote:Here's my complaint about Whole Foods: their deli department is terrible. Customer service is slow, they pick who they want to help, they do half of what you want, etc.

They are very rude.

Are they paying less, because the caliber of their employees seems to have declined.

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Anonymous wrote:I love Whole Foods. Still the only store that bands hundreds of artificial additives in their store, which for me is the entire point of shopping there, since I don't want to dissect every single tiny-print ingredients list.

Of course some produce won't be good if it's out of season! That's a rookie mistake, people.

And there will be occasional disappointments in other products. I posted on DCUM, many years ago, of my disastrous encounter with fresh, never-frozen, salmon from the Bethesda WF that had tiny worms in it, wriggling merrily after I baked it in foil (not enough, apparently). My preschool daughter noticed them after my son and I had taken our first bites. I now only buy fish that's frozen on ship - it kills the parasites.

There are certain produce peope need to buy for various reasons. Leafy greens are wilted. Period. No point debating this because each and every time it has been the case in the last year. MOMs produce should be better 🤞.

Maybe switch your Whole Foods? I find that quality isn't the same for every product in every store. I go to the Rockville WF and the leafy greens are not wilted. I've been a little disappointed with the selection at the Bethesda Whole Foods this year - they haven't stocked some of my go-to items in many months.


Are you referring to the North Bethesda store as Rockville or Bethesda?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For me the main compliant is that the people in the butchers and seafood counters are barely qualified. They used to be quite knowledgeable but now seem to be entirely the vaguely non binary purple haired pierced clique and they know nothing about the meats when I ask questions nor are they capable of doing special cuts or tying up roasts, the way they used to do without questioning in the past. The seafood counter people always botch up requests to cut a large piece of fish into smaller equal portions so I end up with unequal portions or portions so badly cut that I know I can't cook them properly. So I've stopped making these requests.

The actual meat and seafood remain good. But the staffing is very much unreliable. Maybe if they stopped hiring people based on the number of piercings or tattoos or degree of gender fluidity they'd find better staff.

All of your comments about how the people look are offensive.

That has nothing to do with whether they are good at their jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's my complaint about Whole Foods: their deli department is terrible. Customer service is slow, they pick who they want to help, they do half of what you want, etc.

They are very rude.

Are they paying less, because the caliber of their employees seems to have declined.

Yes, they’re paying less, and no longer offer the types of career ladder roles and support for advancement that they did before it was owned by Amazon.

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Anonymous wrote:I have not many complaints about our local WF. Is it as good as the European markets and upscale grocers? No. It's about as good as you are going to get in the US asides from directly growing your own foods (we grow a lot of our own produce and have greenhouses).

So, what happened? My complaint is that specific Whole Foods stores that used to be excellent have now become mediocre. What changed? Does the quality of produce and other products that was commonplace a few years ago no longer exist in the US? Problems were apparent pre-COVID, but there has definitely been a downward slide in the last few years.

The thing that happened was they were bought by Amazon. I noticed the decline in only a few weeks after the purchase.

Nobody has mentioned Sprouts on this thread, so I will point out they are my replacement.

Bezos bought Whole Foods in 2017. Pre 2017 we noticed extreme variation in quality of Whole Foods sites. Sparse number of shoppers and plenty of parking at one. Meanwhile all other stores were packed. Trader Joes was a circle the lot for parking anytime but opening slots.

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Everything is full of seed oils and bio engineered crap.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what’s wrong with seed oils?

Cancer, heart disease, diabetes, artery clogging… and in the short term, they make you flabby and fatigued.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what’s wrong with seed oils?

Cancer, heart disease, diabetes, artery clogging… and in the short term, they make you flabby and fatigued.

Only oils from seeds??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love Whole Foods. Still the only store that bands hundreds of artificial additives in their store, which for me is the entire point of shopping there, since I don't want to dissect every single tiny-print ingredients list.

Of course some produce won't be good if it's out of season! That's a rookie mistake, people.

And there will be occasional disappointments in other products. I posted on DCUM, many years ago, of my disastrous encounter with fresh, never-frozen, salmon from the Bethesda WF that had tiny worms in it, wriggling merrily after I baked it in foil (not enough, apparently). My preschool daughter noticed them after my son and I had taken our first bites. I now only buy fish that's frozen on ship - it kills the parasites.

There are certain produce peope need to buy for various reasons. Leafy greens are wilted. Period. No point debating this because each and every time it has been the case in the last year. MOMs produce should be better 🤞.

Maybe switch your Whole Foods? I find that quality isn't the same for every product in every store. I go to the Rockville WF and the leafy greens are not wilted. I've been a little disappointed with the selection at the Bethesda Whole Foods this year - they haven't stocked some of my go-to items in many months.


Are you referring to the North Bethesda store as Rockville or Bethesda?

I’m not the PP, but the store on Woodglen is in 20852. That’s Rockville. Google that store, and it will say that its address is Rockville.

20852 is Rockville.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what’s wrong with seed oils?

Cancer, heart disease, diabetes, artery clogging… and in the short term, they make you flabby and fatigued.

So does everything else.