stpauler: I'd recommend that book, Brandwashed, it's a pretty entertaining read.

Is there a generic version available?

No shiat.

Grand_Moff_Joseph: And yet the produce is still a million times better than Walmart or most other big box grocery chains.

Despite coming out of the same plastic bins.

When I want to blow my entire paycheck on stuff that will make me feel smug, I go to Whole Foods.

or , subby?

I ain't gonna work on Patty's farm no more.


/i know

"The story is probably very different," Lindstrom says.

In other words he has no PROOF of his statement. I don't doubt that it's accurate, but any arsehole can make base-less statements that sound likely. That's not what journalism is supposed to be about though.

A Terrible Human: Grand_Moff_Joseph: And yet the produce is still a million times better than Walmart or most other big box grocery chains.

Have you never seen a fruit stand or farmers market? shiat at least with those you know they were locally grown.

You do?

Unless you're picking it yourself from plants that are actually growing in the ground, you don't really know shiat.

AcneVulgaris: Grand_Moff_Joseph: And yet the produce is still a million times better than Walmart or most other big box grocery chains.

Despite coming out of the same plastic bins.

Yes. Because the guys opening the plastic bins at walmart left the bin in the sun for 3 days.

Just an FYI:
People who are actually into health food don't shop at Whole Foods.
Only smug farkers do.
They don't know any better.

/former healthfood store manager/buyer

I wonder if the writer has always worn his street clothes to job interviews.

Grocery stores learned a long time ago that Americans really do not care about fresh produce, so they don't go through hoops to make it "fantastic". If you want the best produce, find a large ethnic market in your town, the produce there is generally much fresher and lasts much longer, because the people that shop there tend to be pickier about their produce.

Snarfangel: stpauler: I'd recommend that book, Brandwashed, it's a pretty entertaining read.

Is there a generic version available?

Heh.

Grand_Moff_Joseph: And yet the produce is still a million times better than Walmart or most other big box grocery chains.

Most definitely, but non-chain places are pretty easy to find in most big cities. (If they're further from you than the local chain store, the savings will most likely more than offset the travel/gas cost.)

Detroit: Eastern Market
Atlanta: Your Dekalb Farmer's Market
Chicago: Stanley's Fruit & Vegetables (This place rocks, normal front-porch sized pumpkins were about $1/each yesterday.)

When visiting family in North Dakota a couple of years back, my uncle took us on a tour of the potato-bagging factory where he worked. Locally grown potatoes all from the same fields were bagged into about seven different companies' bags. Different bags, same potatoes. You are paying for a label, not a better potato.

Wants her cut of the profits.

Also, Lindstrom says when you go out shopping, don't grab a shopping cart.

"We know today that if I'm doubling the size of your shopping cart, you actually are buying up to 40 percent more," he says.

But... if I need to buy that much stuff, how else am I going to carry it?

"Another thing you should do is to always pay with cash because you have a physical relationship with money."

No. I mean, I understand what he's getting at, but I hate carrying around cash, and I can still manage my money using a debit card.

Oblig

An attempt by Whole-Mart to convince their shoppers they are buying superior products to gouge them? No way!

"The story is probably very different," Lindstrom says. " In the backside of the store, they're offloading all those bananas from huge plastic containers, most likely flown in the day before, into those individual-looking cardboard boxes, which by the way is not 'Patty's Farm.'


I don't shop there nor care, but the initial part of the sentence tells me guy doesn't know and is just making assumptions to fit his belief. It wouldn't surprise me either way, but I wouldn't take this guys word for it as he obviously doesn't know.

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and that's why I buy off-brand shiat from the dollar store, that, and because I am poor.

Busy chillin' has me whistling now

Grand_Moff_Joseph: And yet the produce is still a million times better than just the same as Walmart or most other big box grocery chains, just priced much higher.

Slight modification.

The only way to know exactly what you're buying is to grow it yourself. Otherwise, STFU and eat it anyway. Or go hungry. I don't really care.

Notice how the author said probably?

I'm a professional grower, and while I've never sold any product to Whole Foods, I can tell you that the grocery stores in our area did indeed buy from local growers. When I stepped into Wegmans (Buffalo, NY) and saw "Apples from so-and-so Farms", I knew it was true because I know the head growers. I know that they only grow X, Y and Z apples and because I know the growers personally, chit-chat eventually comes to who you're selling to.

So... although I don't know a "Patty", or her farm, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the fact that the produce coming from more honest stores is in fact coming right from the grower.

Now, pesticide spraying.... that's something you don't want to know about, lol. Most of you guys don't even know close to the truth on that one, and you're better off that way.

Sarah Palin's Conscience: No shiat organic fertilizer.

FTFY

I have to say, I bought some chicken noodle soup from Whole Foods the other day that was pretty much the best I ever had, including the stuff I make myself. Much better ingredients than you could find in other store brand soups.

scottydoesntknow: JesseL: A Terrible Human: Grand_Moff_Joseph: And yet the produce is still a million times better than Walmart or most other big box grocery chains.

Have you never seen a fruit stand or farmers market? shiat at least with those you know they were locally grown.

You do?

Unless you're picking it yourself from plants that are actually growing in the ground, you don't really know shiat.

I do. Hell one of the main produce farmers at the local market has his farm about 3 miles from my apartment. I've been there to buy during the week when he's not at the market and it's fantastic. So yes, if you ask and actually check, it's easy to find out if they're local or not.

Because someone who would buy produce at the supermarket and sell it for a 200% markup at the famer's market would never lie about it.

This surprises anyone?

Really?

FTFA: In writing his book, Lindstrom carried out his own experiment. He hired a family - called the Morgensons - from Laguna Beach, Calif., and filmed them as they had friends over from the neighborhood and talked about 10 specific brands they were using. Their mission was to frequently mention these brands without letting their guests know of their secret motive.

stpauler: I'd recommend that book, Brandwashed, it's a pretty entertaining read.

"The results showed that babies born to those women who watched the show had a stronger preference for the program than those children whose mothers did not watch the show while pregnant."

That does not even make sense. LOGICALLY the women continues to watch the show AFTER the baby was born, and kids identify with things that are familiar to them. So why even bother mentioning that the women were pregnant when they watched the show?

JesseL: Because someone who would buy produce at the supermarket and sell it for a 200% markup at the famer's market would never lie about it.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to see that someone on Fark is posting multiple comments on a subject he/she clearly knows nothing about.

I love that you think the farmer's market is more expensive. Teehee.

I buy my produce from Juniors farm, the same place as Paul McCartney.

I usually buy my produce for the local in state chain of farmers market. Even if it is the same sh*t as the big box stores I figure it probably has traveled one less step then before getting there then the big box stores.

Taste is usually a good indicator and I the local chain/farmers market produce is better.

Reverend Monkeypants: Just an FYI:
People who are actually into health food don't shop at Whole Foods.
Only smug farkers do.
They don't know any better.

/former healthfood store manager/buyer

Just left Whole Foods, as a matter of fact, on my never-ending quest for Ben and Jerry"s Schweddy Balls ice cream (of course they didn't have it-can't find it anywhere). Had to carefully sidestep all the soccer moms getting out of the Range Rovers that came for their afternoon wine fix.

Have some friends in N. Cal. that work an organic farm and live an organic lifestyle. Not the fake stuff in Whole Foods, where the produce looks an awful lot like the produce at any chain grocery store.

bu bu but I can taste the difference



Possibly contains nsfw language, I honestly don't remember.

Smug dbags will spend more, eat less, enjoy less, and still die like the rest of us.

I'll take 3 baconators, tyvm.