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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 07:13 PM
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Does your supermarket have this kind of website like Whole Foods does?
http://wholefoodsmarket.com/healthstartshere/

This is one point where I think the Whole Foods boycott is misguided. It seems that few of the players are teaching their customers to eat healthy, except Whole Foods and a few others.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 07:20 PM
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1. This makes the second (that I've seen) promotional post for WF
from you, LoZoccolo... Do you work for them? I recognize the things WF does very well (and conversely those things that they do not)...I will certainly give them their due, but I can't help but be curious why you are singing their praises so strongly....:shrug:
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 07:23 PM
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2. I think the Whole Foods boycott is an object lesson in strategy.
I think it demonstrates how strong emotions can interfere with getting a progressive agenda done.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 07:33 PM
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6. not shopping at whole foods interferes with a progressive agenda?
How so? :shrug:
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 08:07 PM
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11. They end up supporting a lot of suppliers who do things that progressives would like.
There are a lot of brands that farm sustainably, pay good wages, etcetera.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 09:01 PM
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23. perhaps, but it still doesn't follow that not shopping at WF interferes w/ a progressive agenda
Whole Foods isn't the only place to find such brands.
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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 07:35 PM
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8. What boycott?
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 08:13 PM
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13. The CEO put down Obama's health care plan because he's highly influenced by
"conscious capitalism", a mix of progressive values and libertarianism. People wanted to punish him for it. Obviously I only partially agree with him (the part about how people should take better care of themselves), and mostly disagree, but I don't think he really shifted the debate much, and I felt it was worth overlooking in order to support some of the vendors which are putting a lot of progressive values into action with respect to the environment and labor.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 08:14 PM
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14. We liberals are supposed to hate WF and shop at more progressive
places like, well, Von's and Ralph's, lol.
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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 09:46 PM
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27. I support union shops
there are other ways to look at things. They have good union jobs
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 09:47 PM
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28. Meh, shopping at a union-busting store isn't really part of my "progressive" agenda.
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TransitJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 07:26 PM
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3. EVERY supermarket has that on their website.
http://www.safeway.com/IFL/Grocery/Healthy-Living
http://www.albertsons.com/healthy-eating/
http://www.kroger.com/healthy_living/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.kingsoopers.com/healthy_living/Pages/default.aspx
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 07:29 PM
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5. OK, I must confess that I didn't even look.
Still, Whole Foods has some pretty cool things about it.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 07:26 PM
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4. lol. there is no local supermarket where I live
the closest one is about a half hour drive. Here's my local "supermarket".

http://www.willeysvt.com/

A rambling old country store with everything from boots to groceries to guns to hardware and animal feed.

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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 07:34 PM
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7. What did you do, buy WF stock? Why the second promotion in a week? nt
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WorseBeforeBetter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 07:38 PM
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9. Yes, even my crappy Kroger.
Edited on Tue May-17-11 07:40 PM by WorseBeforeBetter
http://www.kroger.com/healthy_living/Pages/default.aspx

Which really isn't so crappy anymore; they've remodeled, are bringing in more local/NC foods, and expanded the international selections.
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unapatriciated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 07:48 PM
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10. my supermarket has this type of website.
http://www.traderjoes.com/stores/neighborhood-involvement.asp

I don't boycott wf just prefer tj's. Maybe I should start a thread on how involved they are at local levels with supplying food for local foodbanks.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 08:10 PM
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12. Yes, the customers rely on Whole Foods to TEACH them how to eat.

:eyes:


This Whole Foods Whoring is getting a bit grating.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 08:19 PM
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15. It's going to take more than that to get me to go to Whole Paycheck.
There are better and cheaper alternatives here in Austin.
And Mackey is STILL an asshole like he's been for the 30 years since I first met him.

Next you'll want people to buy a Dell.
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 08:20 PM
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16. I don't really care about Whole Foods politics. I don't go there
because their prices are outrageous.
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 08:22 PM
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17. They Certainly are
That said, I have a few things that I like there that I cant get anywhere else.

Same thing with Wal Mart
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 08:46 PM
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20. I don't go to Whole Foods for anything, but Walmart has their
own brand of Bleu Cheese salad dressing that I'll go out of my way to buy.
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 09:41 PM
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26. Not a fan of the sparkling water anywhere else.
The Clear American is the best ive had
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blueamy66 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 08:46 PM
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19. The only item I buy at WF
is broccoli rabe, cause I cannot find it anywhere else.
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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 08:40 PM
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18. Most supermarkets have such websites. Whole Foods sucks.
They are all hat and no health. High prices, bad service, cynical marketing and skin deep sustainability. Whole Foods came sniffing around here, wanting to build one of their markets, and this town sent them packing, we have far better markets doing the same thing for real, not Corporate Knock Off style.
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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 08:57 PM
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22. New Seasons has had them beaten recently and earlier too when they were playing "monopoly"...
... with their "Wild Oats' chain purchases up here in Oregon.

http://www.newseasonsmarket.com/dynamicContent.aspx?loc=995&subloc=1&menuId=292

Whole Foods was sneaky in basically claiming that they needed access to New Season's financial records to "prove" that they wouldn't be a monopoly when they bought Wild Oats around here. What a lame rationalization for stealing competitors' financial records. New Seasons' complying would have only made Whole Foods likely monopoly that much worse!

http://newseasonsmarket.blogspot.com/2008/11/were-just-trying-to-mind-our-own-local.html

That started an earlier boycott of WF's up here before their CEO opened his mouth stupidly on health care more recently.
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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 09:03 PM
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24. Interesting...
I love the local markets and farmer's markets here.
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ThatPoetGuy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 08:48 PM
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21. We had a lovely food co-op, with great food, low prices, great health info, and liberal politics...
until Whole Foods shut it down.

Whole Foods threatened to drop any businesses that sold to the co-op. All of a sudden there were no farmers, no distributors.

It was disgusting behavior, worse than Walmart.
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-11 09:15 PM
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25. God...who cares?
I mean seriously?

I don't need a website to buy some freaking food.
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