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I’m not bitchin’ AT you,...I’m just bitchin’ OK? :)

I can’t afford the place...and I’ve brought boxes and bags for my grocery goods for DECADES before Whole Foods got their first clue. We have one in Madistan and I’ve cruised it a time or two with friends who are easily impressed.

Over-priced, IMPORTED designer foodstuffs. Think Whole Foods will reveal what they spend in shipping costs that negatively effect ‘The Environment’ to get their precious “organic produce” or “cage free eggs” or “designer” goat cheeses into your cart? That stuff is shipped in from far, far away. The majority of it is not locally grown, though at one point, back when the company had a soul, they did by local market raspberries from us. ;)

Piffle, I say! And I grow my own. I’ve gardened organically for 20 years. I keep laying hens. And I can’t stand goat cheese, after milking goats all summer as a kid and indentured servant on my Aunt’s farm, LOL!

Believe me, Whole Foods wouldn’t be doing this if it cost them dime-one to their bottom line; their shareholders wouldn’t HEAR of it! It’s a business first...and your “feelings” that you are “doing good” by shopping there is strictly marketing.

These people annoy me to no end. It’s ALL marketing, FRiends. Don’t be a sap.

I wish there was a Whole Foods close to us. There IS a Wild Oats that was recently bought out by Whole Foods not all that terribly far from us, but still not as close as I would like. I still buy things from regular supermarkets. It would be prohibitive for me to try to go purist about grocery shopping, so on things that don’t matter, I go to Kroger or Save A Lot or even Walmart sometimes. - There’s supposed to be a bargain whole foods (Turnip Truck) in Nashville, but that’s just too far for me to justify. - Heck, at my age, just getting the few miles in to the regular store is about all I can do most times.

I admire Aldi's. They provide no bags in order to get the customers to take out their garbage for them. The customers scrounge around the product placement positions, removing empty or near empty cardboard cartons, as to have something to pack the groceries in. It's market driven brilliance. An Aldi's store can be run by two people. It's a case study of efficiency balanced with consumer demand and quality.

I just don't enjoy shopping at Aldi. To me shopping for my food should be as enjoyable as preparing it and consuming it. Food purchase decisions are the prerequisite beginnings of the culinary experience.