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In reply to the discussion: Adios Whole Foods [View all]Squinch
(50,949 posts)82. Ooooohh. I have a crush on you now!
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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