[rktman]

Wait until you take a gander at “enviro-kids” cereal and the indoctrinating verbiage on the box. Talk about instilling guilt in the kiddies at a very young impressionable age. I consider it a form of child abuse. (I think it’s enviro-kids cereal or some other noxiously titled breakfast food.) My with talked me into going in one ONCE. Neither of us will ever set foot in one again.

[old curmudgeon]

If I were to show this to my wife, she would probably go out the door and never look back.

It is a religion.

[RginTN]

Its pricey too.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Coconut oil - great stuff. Foods not drenched in pesticides, herbicides and petrochemicals - great stuff. Probiotics - great stuff.

These days you can buy this kind of stuff in most local grocery stores.

[PieterCasparzen]

Sounds like we’re ginning up support for the food industry.

Who needs dat stinkin’ healtha food.

I gots me ma kraft mac an chess from da box.

[Fai Mao]

Just an anecdotal observation
When I lived in Austin many years ago I was then as now a bicycle commuter. The people who regularly ran me off the road always generally the ones with a “Whole Foods” or “Save the Earth” bumper sticker. I have always had far less trouble with red-necks than environmentalist types

[ClearBlueSky]

After Katrina all of my suspicuons re. `organic` foods were confirmed. A close friend had an uncle who lost 3/4 of his citrus farm to floodwaters in Placquemine parish. He was trying to replant what land was left when he was approached by some government types to turn his farm `organic`. He said he couldn`t afford to raise anything that way and hope to make enough money_no chemicals,regulations etc. They explained he didn`t have to PROVE he was growing organically-no one would inspect- he just had to pay a yearly fee for the organic label. He said no. Don`t know if it was state or federal people but if that`s how it works the people paying exorbitant $ for `healthy` are gullible morons.

[1_Rain_Drop]

The name “Whole Foods Market” always puzzled me. Since there’s a whole foods market then there should also be a half foods market and a quarter foods market.

[Yardstick]

There’s an interesting ideological wraparound effect though. Liberals embrace the Whole Foods ethos as an extension of their anti-corporate paranoia, and some conservatives do the same out of fear of the NWO and Monsanto which are out to steal their vital essences.

[RightGeek]

I love Whole Foods! You can buy good beer and cheese and watch yuppies buy strange foods made out of wood chips.

[SamAdams76]

This article is a bit overwrought.

I go to Whole Foods often because they have good food. No, I don't buy the $10 Swiss chocolate bars with Kumquat and Dragon Fruit in them. I don't buy the cheese that smells like an old shoe and sells for $15 a pound. I bypass all the non-food aisles with their silly books on global warming, their clothing made out of hemp and their overpriced toothpaste and shampoos. And I especially don't bother with the "bring your own bag" nonsense. I ask for paper and make them double-bag.

But walk the perimeter of the store and you get some very good produce, fish, meat, dairy products and nuts at very reasonable prices. I especially like the section where you can grind up fresh peanut butter. Though I do get a kick out of the label that says "this product may contain traces of nuts."

Yes, much of the clientele are scowling liberals who are in between a trip to the gym and a lecture on the plight of the Kurds. But at least they aren't paying with food stamps because Whole Foods only puts their stores in high-income areas. I also love parking my Ford F150 into a spot that is reserved for "fuel efficient" cars. That will sometimes earn me a mean stare. Hey, my 8-cylinder truck is pretty efficient at burning fuel - my frequent fill-ups attest to that.

[SgtHooper]

Blah, Blah, Blah, say all you want, but their stock is fantastic. So buy it and get rich off the stupid enviro-loonies.

[Bon of Babble]

I happen to love Whole Foods, the produce section is great (loved the dates rolled in walnuts, which is my afternoon snack), DH loves the beer section, lots of local micro brews and the beer is rated. I also buy artichoke hearts in olive oil for our after work happy hour snacking.

I also like going to a store where everyone BUT ME in line is using an EBT card — while driving a late model car and talking on the latest iPhone.

Yes, I may pay more when I go to Whole Foods occasionally, but I leave w/o my blood boiling from seeing all the EBT cards (this is California, where 33% of ALL welfare recipients live).

[Daffynition]

I have said this many times on the forum...WF has a good business model, I can support......the customers who frequent WH are the most pretentious people on the planet.

In this long, cold snowy winter, I'll take my GD there to do her homework....the sunny, clean and bright eat-in restaurant is quiet and civilized...we get a nice snack and have a *girl's* moment. Grazing at WF is an art form.

The customers I see in the checkout lane are buying overpriced prepared foods that are better if you fix them at home. I know some of these people....who earn six-figures....live on the *other side of the tracks* and carry home the goods in the Benzs, Rovers and BMWs .......put their organic WF in their Sub-Zeros...in their $250K kitchens...which they don't use for food prep, except to have available when the hired chef caters their next party.

Case in point....I went to WH a few days B4 Valentine's Day to find some long-stem strawberries...for my GD to dip as a present to her Mom & dad for the holiday. WF didn't have them...which surprised me...but I found them in my cheap-as-dirt grocery store I frequent on the *other side of the tracks*. Meh.

[Ellendra]

The “whole foods” movement is strong enough that the foods that you could only find at Whole Foods a few years ago are now cropping up in every grocery store, for a fraction of the price and with fewer scowling yuppies.

I was glad to see things like whole-milk yogurt and whole chia seeds turn up at my regular grocery store. Whole-milk yogurt tastes 100X better than the low-fat slime. And I use chia for erosion control on my land :)

[Darren McCarty]

Hey, I like organic food. Free range venison and free range turkey. I can shoot it myself......

[yldstrk]

Great article

whole foods is such a load of steaming crap

organic to me means insects and poop, yuck

I like kosher just fine thanks, at least it’s clean

oh the cool hoity toity shoppers at whole foods, so plastic

fruit leather indeed eye roll

[catnipman]

You know what’s worse than shopping at a Whole Foods?

Shopping at a Whole Foods in Boulder, Colorado. I kid you not. This place is infested with nothing but know-it-all limousine liberals, University of Colorado professors, professors wives, professors mistresses, professors children, professors students, rich “hippies”, and other assorted liberal scum. This place is packed tighter than sardines in a can with such people, and the amount of smugness and righteousness trapped under one roof is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

[minnesota_bound]

I was at Whole Foods for the first time this past weekend and bought some ‘back to nature’ cookies and some chips. Neither of which gave me any headaches. I have to carefully shop to avoid msg which will ruin any snack or meal by giving me headaches.

With that said I was shocked at their $12.99 price for steak when I can buy it at $5.99 at Albertsons. Maybe there is a difference but I ain’t paying to find out!

I also was amused about their cooked chicken that displayed on the package the 5 steps in how the chicken was humanly treated. Ahem, it still ended up dead and cooked by step 6 ....!

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Whole Foods meats and poultry are better than the common supermarket hands down. Sure there are a lot of strange looking shopper there, but their butchers are regular guys.