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The 3 Dumbest Things About Whole Foods Market
Forbes ^ | August 18, 2014 | Steven Salzberg

Posted on 08/19/2014 10:43:58 AM PDT by EveningStar

I have a love-hate relationship with Whole Foods Market. On the one hand, I love their fresh produce, their baked goods, and many other food choices there. On the other hand, they have embraced anti-science positions in the interest of keeping everything "natural."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: junkscience; wholefoods; wholefoodsmarket; wholepaycheck
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To: albie
I don’t like that they give 5% of their profits “back to the community”. They owe the “community” nothing and that 5% has been added to the price of their goods which costs me.

Their logic is so convoluted.

By providing employment at market wages for the locals, they are indeed giving to the community. Every dollar they pay in wages eventually ripples into 3 or 4 dollars.

By charging higher than market prices they could be said to be removing money from the local economy. Money that could be put into other, more productive purposes.

21 posted on 08/19/2014 11:12:25 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: EveningStar

22 posted on 08/19/2014 11:15:55 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: EveningStar

So they won’t sell aspirin??

Aspirin in the Ancient World

Aspirin was first produced 110 years ago, but the natural form, salicylic acid, found in plants (i.e. the willow and myrtle) has been used for thousands of years.
As early as 3000 BC, the ancient Egyptians used willow bark and myrtle to reduce pain and fever
By 30 AD, Greek and Roman physicians suggested the use of willow leaf to treat inflammation.

A Victorian Era Discovery

The natural form of aspirin, salicylic acid, was associated with an awful taste and often induced upset stomachs and vomiting. In 1853, scientist Charles Fredric Gerhardt was the first to prepare ASA by the addition of an acetyl chemical to natural salicylic acid, however this form was said to be unstable.
In 1897, Felix Hoffmann (a young chemist working for Bayer) independently made ASA in a more chemically pure, stable and more palatable form. Hoffman’s father had utilised sodium salicylate for rheumatic pain (to make it easier on the stomach).
Two years later, on March 6, 1899, aspirin was trademarked under the Imperial Office of Berlin.
When war broke out in 1914 the Allies lost their source of aspirin and so they offered large prizes for anyone who could make aspirin. When the war ended the Allies forced the Germans to give up their patent.


23 posted on 08/19/2014 11:16:01 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: martin_fierro

They just opened a new Whole Foods in Red Hampshire yesterday, and I love the damn zoo...thanks for the tip!


24 posted on 08/19/2014 11:17:25 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: EveningStar
I find myself going there for more & more --

* Decent pasta & sauces at very cheap prices.
* Fresh made peanut butter.
* Good selection of produce. Some of it even tastes OK - unlike big box stores' bland, tasteless veggies.
* Fresh bread.
* Draft beer with growlers available.
* Soda without sugar or fake sugar.
* Best selection of snack chips & salsas.

25 posted on 08/19/2014 11:19:17 AM PDT by gdani (Every day, your Govt surveils you more than the day before)
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To: glorgau

Well, that guy’s article might be considered humor but its an accurate portrayal of WF.

Seen it up close and personal including the rage vibrating through them when they do not know how to react.

Just a crowd of self important, smug clowns the lot of them.


26 posted on 08/19/2014 11:19:33 AM PDT by warsaw44
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To: colorado tanker

We do shop there, but only as a once-in-a-while treat. It’s too expensive for us to go there regularly.


27 posted on 08/19/2014 11:19:47 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Night Hides Not

Sprouts is awesome! Cheap too. It was dirt cheap prior to 2008.


28 posted on 08/19/2014 11:21:24 AM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: GT Vander
I get just as good, or better, quality from the gardens I work so hard in every year.

I have a garden loaded with tomatoes that Whole Foods couldn't match up with in their wildest imagination...

29 posted on 08/19/2014 11:22:42 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: EveningStar

We have Sprouts here. Same basic concept but a lot cheaper.


30 posted on 08/19/2014 11:23:36 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: EveningStar

Their stock is tanking. Even lo-info Leftists have caught on that they are being ripped off by WF pricing.


31 posted on 08/19/2014 11:26:54 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: colorado tanker

We have Sprouts here too.


32 posted on 08/19/2014 11:27:24 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: albie

Interesting, I’ve never bothered to ask and I have never received anything but a paper bag from my local Whole Foods.

Except the 5% thing, none of your other gripes really apply to my local Whole Foods store either. However, I live in a very conservative area and I’m guessing the circus freaks would be bad for business. I think a lot of people around here shop there because they have a better selection for certain foods than other stores, particularly when it comes to cheeses.


33 posted on 08/19/2014 11:27:42 AM PDT by Bill93
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
I have yet to see any study at all which proves that organic food is healthier than non-organic food.
Google - Organic Food Is Not Healthier - and you'll find plenty ... like this one.
34 posted on 08/19/2014 11:28:47 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: gdani

You can also review the quality standards on their website for the ingredients that will not be in any of the products they carry. High fructose corn syrup is one of them, so you know from the outset that nothing they sell will have that ingredient.


35 posted on 08/19/2014 11:29:23 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily

so manufactures learn to rename the banned product. (ie MSG comes under different names)


36 posted on 08/19/2014 11:30:59 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Bill93

Same for me. I’ve never goten anything other than paper bags for the 5 years our WF has been open. They are great for fish and meat. I don’t eat bread but the bakery is good for those who do. I’m allergic to some soaps and shaving creams mass produced and they carry more “natural” ones that don’t affect me. I get fresh ground peanut butter, olive oil and local honey there cheap. Also have a good wine selection.

The Obama stickers on the Prius’s are the customers...


37 posted on 08/19/2014 11:32:58 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: EveningStar

Several years ago there was a Tea Party rally in front of one in Dallas. I went inside to get a drink. Once was enough for me.


38 posted on 08/19/2014 11:33:25 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: oh8eleven

Thanks for that. Just read it.

I read a similar article in the Investor’s Business Daily a few years ago about a study on organic foods which concluded that there were no particular health benefits consuming organic foods.

Yes we can all benefit having a healthier diet including more fruits and vegetables, poultry and fish, less red meat, less fried foods, less fast food and junk food. But that is just common sense. No need to go to extremes or expensive fads.


39 posted on 08/19/2014 11:38:04 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: albie
I don’t like the sea of “Obama” stickers in their parking lot.

All attached to vehicles with MSRPs not less than $60,000 I've noticed.


40 posted on 08/19/2014 11:38:48 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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