Posted on 09/24/2014 6:35:56 AM PDT by C19fan
Safeway’s Randell’s is more costly on some items, especially (but not only) if you aren’t a member of their “let’s database your shopping habits” discount card club.
They compared prices to stores that most people have not even heard of, why not compare it to the store that we all know, Walmart?
I'll do that! I'll start an entire line of Goopton free food! Many recent studies prove the dangers of goopton and it's a major health issue!
So send me money right away or die a horrible, unwashed death.
And I compare against HEB as well. Fiesta was cheaper but they have been pushed into the marginalized ghettos of Houston.
LOL..I just saw that on a bag of craisins.
And this struck me too, on a carton of eggs: "our hens are fed an all-vegetarian diet."
I guess people don't realize that hens are naturally omnivorous, and that the only way you can keep them on an all-vegetarian diet is if you never let them outside.
My Wife and I were in one this weekend looking for something for my Mother and I got in trouble for saying out loud “ are they out of their freaking minds with these prices?” Okay so I said it about half a dozen times, but I was comparing the cost of exact same items at my regular grocery store. Lot’s of feel good shopping going on.
My Wife and I were in one this weekend looking for something for my Mother and I got in trouble for saying out loud “ are they out of their freaking minds with these prices?” Okay so I said it about half a dozen times, but I was comparing the cost of exact same items at my regular grocery store. Lot’s of feel good shopping going on.
I think I'm set...for now.
FMCDH(BITS)
Whole Foods has never cost me a penny.
Carved German upright bass, a few vintage fender pieces plus until recently an Alembic.
It’s not fancy, but my Winchester Model 70 in 300win mag is still the most fun to shoot, I Stick to wheelguns for carry.
We are fortunate to have many farmer’s markets near where I live :-)
Life is too short to buy, or use, crap.
Yeah, I call my dinners “666” eating:
6-courses, 6 hours to fix, $60 bucks in ingredients.
I was at Sprouts which is like Whole Foods or Trader Joes.
They had cashews that were broken at $6.99/lb and whole ones at $7.99/lb and “organic” ones at $11.99/lb
I went to Super King and bought my whole ones unsalted at $5.99/lb I do not know if they were organic....
But in Houston the WF prices (except for meat and beer on tap) are laughable.
Turned out so many of the Hispanics are illegals that the voting population is majority white.
You’ll get a kick out of this http://www.theroot.com/articles/Breaking/2013/11/white_texas_man_elected_after_leading_voters_to_believe_he_was_black.html .
My brief acquaintance with the city also makes me suspect that being "liberal" here doesn't quite mean the same thing as "liberal" in Chicago or even Austin.
My understanding is that "organic" produce (and other products) are supposed to be raised free of those chemicals and pesticides.
Also there is a co-op farm in my city (not a "farmers market") where you get the produce fresh off the vine (that day, that moment) and pay far cheaper (by the bag, no scale). Blows away the pricing of any store.
An honest account would compare HEB's upscale "Central Market" storefronts to Whole Foods.
Also, Whole Food's produce appears to be good quality. Fiesta (which I mentioned earlier) is lacking in quality (size, color, etc.) but really cheap (grown by "conventional" means).
If you want to get Whole Foods' produce cheaper, go in Sunday night or Monday and find fruits and sometimes vegetables considerably marked down. Fresh produce doesn't have the longest shelf life.
I can't vouch for the wine. Some of the cheaper bottles are comparable or cheaper than competitors.
Beer is around market value. Cheaper than Randall's, sometimes cheaper than HEB, and sometimes a little higher than the "cash discount" price of Spec's Liquor (the city's largest liquor store chain).
On Thurday's during the early "happy hour", 64 oz. of fresh "craft" draft beer to go (in a refillable growler) can run as low at $6.
So true. If you made up a word, and started advertising food free of it people would buy it.
I'll quote this passage from Alan Abel's book "The Confessions of a Hoaxer"
Meantime, the Crazy Ad movement had begun to spreak to transportation vehicles in other cities when radio and television personalities such as Johnny Carson, Arthur Godfrey, Dave Garroway and Henry Morgan read the ads to their audiences.Godfrey read a number of the ads on his CBS radio show with Victor Borge as he guest who then asked, "Do they really put them on the buses?"
"Yes," replied Godfrey. "Very funny, too. Alan Abel tells me they got some replies. I learned long ago there are always people who will take you seriously. About twenty years ago I had a program in New York. And I was on for some cereal or other. I can't remember what it was, fortunately. When the sponsor left me I said, 'This program is brought to you by Clavintrude.' And that everybody ought to have some Clavintrude. And you could buy it by the quart in the hardware store. Don't you know, people went to the stores and asked for it? So I gave that up. No, you don't fool around with things they are serious about."
Well, I don’t know the stores you mention but at my WFs the prices are astronomical.
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