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March 3, 2014
America’s Angriest Store: How Whole Foods Attracts Complete Shitheads.
I wonder, why are these people all so angry?Is it something about Whole Foods that brings it out of them? Is it just their proximity to other miserable souls just like them? Is it the outward projection of inner self-loathing brought on by the feeling of utter helplessness in the face of social pressure to pay higher prices for organic, GMO-free, gluten-free, paleo, macro, whole foods? They stand in the middle of the aisles, blocking passage of any other cart, staring intently at the selection asking themselves that critical question: which one of these olive oils makes me seem coolest and most socially conscious, while also making the raw vegetable salad I’m preparing for the monthly condo board meeting seem most rustic and artisanal? — Culture Club — Medium
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 3, 2014 11:55 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Its just miserable people feeling guilty and awful about the world and their choices trying to do penance by paying too much.
The truth is, the left used to be more happy and free wheeling than the right, and that's reversed completely. The left is bitter and mean and angry all the time.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 3, 2014 12:34 PM
I was able to get the CEO/founder of WF sign his book which I purchased. I told him, I have no idea who you are,then, he signed it with the message,
"Keep you consciousness high".
Posted by: McKiernan at March 3, 2014 3:57 PM
My wife, who likes 'organic' foods and all that, tried to shop in a whole foods once.
"What a bunch of assholes" were her very words.
Tried Trader Joe's too, but it is sort of obvious who the target demographic is...lots of single serve this or that--for all those 20, 30 40 and even 50 something singles.
She does most of her shopping at price-rite these days.
Posted by: Eric Blair at March 3, 2014 4:03 PM
Whole Foods, I guess, is for the type of people whose identity and sense of self-worth hangs upon a carrot. Shallow and anxious people.
I shop at Kroger, it is a mile from my house and two miles from my office (I do the shopping over lunch).
Posted by: Mikey NTH at March 3, 2014 5:08 PM
Whole Foods: "Why Pay Less?"
Posted by: Fat Man at March 3, 2014 6:56 PM
Well now, Trader Joe can get sort of interesting in a weird hipsterish way at times too. I do shop there for the cheese prices and a few other things, such as the the really excellent tuna but often have to brave quite a crowd of preciousness manifest in the flesh. There are also normal people there buying food.
Posted by: pbird at March 3, 2014 9:39 PM
We only hit the grocery store about once every 2 months, a giant Kroger, and it's like going to Disney World - an amazing place. People in the US really don't realize how fortunate they are - but they will when the party ends, soon.
Posted by: ghostsniper at March 4, 2014 5:02 AM
I have actually been happy with the service they do to the rest of America. If not for Whole Foods and Trader Joes these people would be in the Safeway's and Kroger's blocking the isles with nothing acceptable for them to buy. To move them out of the way one only has to say there is a Republican out in the parking lot applying George Bush Stickers to all the Prius's
Posted by: Kelvin at March 4, 2014 9:31 AM
"Most of the trouble in the world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. Now your virus is an obligate cellular parasite and my contention is that evil is quite literally a virus parasite occupying a certain brain area which we may term the RIGHT center. The mark of a basic shit is that he has to be right. And right here we must make a distinction between the hard-core virus-occupied shit and a plain, ordinary, mean no-good son of a bitch. Some of these sons of bitches don't cause any trouble at all, just want to be left alone and are only dangerous when molested, like the Brown Recluse."
Burroughs — The Place of Dead Roads.
Posted by: chasmatic at March 4, 2014 10:14 AM
Let me get my hemp-fibre native American shopping bags, put on my earth shoes, hop on/in my recumbent bicycle/prius and slow drive over the the WH store. There I can find my free-range, fair-trade, organic, micro new age arugula with balsamic vinegar, peppered with chipotle. A brief stop at the new age bookstore to pickup the latest lgbt offering and back to the urban regentrfied, rent subsidized loft space in a vibrant multicultural neighborhood. Turn on msnbc, while tie-dying a new all natural cotton vneck waiting for my gender-cis studies graduate student room mate to return from a new/womyn poetry slam. After our vegan repast it will be off to spin class and veggie bar cocktail and finish up with a latte at starbucks. Life is good
Posted by: tripletap at March 4, 2014 12:32 PM
Aw, Jeez, trip, you have all the fun. Don't forget to donate something to the homeless third-world persons of color that are physically challenged. Oh, and feed the pigeons.
“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”
― William S. Burroughs
Posted by: chasmatic at March 4, 2014 4:46 PM
This Burroughs fellow...
Sounds good. I'll look for his books. HAHAHA
Too many good posts here.
Most of the libtard town I live in behaves this way. Even our Krogers is full of those people who severely wish they had a Whole Foods in which to perch.
Posted by: CAW at March 4, 2014 7:05 PM
Sounds like a great place to wear a Confederate flag t-shirt!
Posted by: iggy at March 5, 2014 12:46 PM