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In reply to the discussion: Adios Whole Foods [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)51. Trader Joe's is actually affordable, unlike Whole Paycheck.
They have some brazenly good soy chorizo!
They don't have as large an inventory as the former Fresh Fields, though--at least not in the TF stores I've visited.
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They're a botique grocery around here anyway, too bad they killed off the real thing, Wild Oats.
patrice
Jan 2013
#2
In the Northwest it's a more reasonable business model; there isn't enough middle-class
patrice
Jan 2013
#15
EVERYTHING is toooooo big & too hostile toward anything that is smaller. Too far away too.
patrice
Jan 2013
#77
Wild Oats was a good store. Real counter-culture with roots actually IN the middle-class.
patrice
Jan 2013
#19
In 2013 - He claims Obamacare is fascism; in 2007, he anonymously posted bad things re: Wild Oats
DeschutesRiver
Jan 2013
#107
When I complained to a TJoe's employee about all the high salt/sugar foods, but no seaweed or
ancianita
Jan 2013
#138
Those are great links to get people up to speed - this isn't Mackey's first time at the rodeo.
DeschutesRiver
Jan 2013
#108
I was told by an employee that he got full benefits. And he wasn't a manager or asst. mgr.
Squinch
Jan 2013
#69
The policy is still the same and we have changed our buying practices for fish...
unapatriciated
Jan 2013
#89
I've always gone there for specialty stuff like sprouted breads and reasonably priced almond butter,
Squinch
Jan 2013
#91
I have a TJ's within walking distance of my house. The employees are some of the happiest people.
apnu
Jan 2013
#71
They are non union however and their store in Minneapolis has been picketed
totodeinhere
Jan 2013
#112
NPR interview Wed & Thurs: CEO "compares the government's health care overhaul to "fascism"
CurtEastPoint
Jan 2013
#14
I really do make it a point to talk in a friendly way about the issues with just about anyone
patrice
Jan 2013
#34
Thank you, BuddhaGirl. From your screen-name, I imagine you know that we must LIVE this stuff.
patrice
Jan 2013
#75
Organic foods is one of the greatest marketing frauds ever perpetrated on the American people. nt
Comrade_McKenzie
Jan 2013
#43
How? Plus, Whole Foods isn't an organic store. That's why I don't shop there.
cui bono
Jan 2013
#106
Are public utilities that have a monopoly and are highly regulated also 'fascism'?
Ikonoklast
Jan 2013
#56
I stopped shopping there when the CEO came out against the Affordable
ReallyIAmAnOptimist
Jan 2013
#47
wars of the grocery stores these days, not enough business for all. huge nitch for fedex fresh foods
Sunlei
Jan 2013
#50
I want my doctors, my dentists and anyone who touches my food to have healthcare.
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#63
If Whole Foods already provides good health care for its employees (and I am delighted
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#134
The big problem in the US is that our health insurance companies are for the most part
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#136
We only go to Whole Foods if we can't find an exotic item anywhere else, or to spoil ourselves...
lexw
Jan 2013
#93
I only go there for things I can't find elsewhere. Haven't been there twice in the past 6 months.
kestrel91316
Jan 2013
#127