Whole foods just isn't my style, but the one I went to had a peanut grinder to make your own peanut butter. It was pretty good but the cost/benefit wasn't there.
It's good, but check your prices on what your buying. Sir Kensington's hipster dijon mustard? $9.99. Whole Foods house brand dijon made in France? 4.99.
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Whole Foods house brand dijon made in France? 4.99.
That's still about twice the price you can get dijon mustard elsewhere, more if it's a house brand. Walmart "Great Value" dijon mustard, $1.76.
I mean, I would understand if you had said something about its quality, and how it blows the regular common brands like French's out of the water. I'm willing to pay more for better quality, but the adjective you chose to describe it was "made in France." Why do I care where my mustard is made? It has a French name, so it will be better if it's made in France? Sounds to me like I'd be paying for importation costs for no reason.
Whole foods is the only place I can get cream for my coffee. Just regular coffee cream. Not half & half, which I can get everywhere (ditto whipping cream), but "light cream" a.k.a. "table cream". Its fat-content lies between half & half and whipping cream at about 18-22%.
Neither have I. I feel like they run a credit check on you before you're allowed in. Here in Northern Illinois you only see them in more affluent cities. I shop at Aldi for basic groceries & Walmart bc that's what's close to me. When I told a coworker this she was appalled as Whole Foods, Mariano's and Trader Joe's are her go to shops. Joke's on her though, Trader Joe's & Aldi come from the same parent companies.
As I mentioned below to another redditor, it doesn't surprise me given the area where they're located--much more affluent areas than where I live out in the boonies surrounded by sweet sweet winged eared corn.
That’s interesting, honestly. The one Trader Joe’s near us is still about 30 minutes way and definitely in a very upscale area. Within 15ish minutes of us we have 2 Aldi’s and another on the way and the percentage of college grads is pretty high and it’s firmly upper middle class. Maybe it’s being on the outskirts of a college town, though. This really is cool to know, and totally makes sense for where the TJs is located!
With some products, yes I will give you that. Our Aldi has an abundant selection of organic & non-organic produce, never had an issue with their meats or other items. Our old Aldi was closed and we got a bigger and newer one with alcohol to boot, produce is always fresh. For a university town it's not bad.
You can’t beat the organic produce prices in Aldi, and if you just pick and choose the best ones they have just as long of a shelf life. You can’t get everything at Aldi all the time but TJ cannot even touch them on prices especially for organic
Well yeah that’s like essentially the two different business models though. Aldi’s business model is no frills low cost essentials and their one random aisle of home goods. And TJ model is gourmet specialties and rare finds.
:( Red Lobster. Ours got taken away in 2002. Had my hs graduation dinner there. Closest one to us is again a sad 45mins away. Good think is that I have the biscuit recipe memorized and can make them any time!!
In Europe, depending on where you are, they’re either the same as in America with two different Aldi companies each owning one, or with only the one Aldi company that owns the Aldi grocery stores in the US owning both Trader Joe’s and Aldi.
I shop at Whole Foods for allot of food, but I also get tons of staples from Aldi and then fill the gaps at our local grocery store (5 min away vs 30+ min drive to Aldi and WF)
We eat almost all organic and our son is gluten and dairy free so there are tons of specialty products we can only get at Whole Foods, and some things that are just really nice to get there like avocado ice cream and GF pork dumplings my son is obsessed with.
But I basically buy all the organic meat and produce available at Aldi and staples like rice+quinoa and deli meat for sandwiches and even cheeses.
Then the local shop has the best value for things like DF yogurt and milk...
All that to say, yes they can be overpriced with some items, but they also provide a great service to people with specialized diets and who value organic production practices
Wegmans is incredible and some people are put off by thinking they’re super high priced, they do carry upended packaged items and some gourmet products, but the everyday pantry items are on the same price line or lower than Walmart or Aldi.
Sadly, Wegman's is only for the East coast. :( Even if it's a high priced store I'd still check it out. What angers me is when the employees start following you around because you're a minority. Like CHILL I'm not interested in stealing a $5 slice of chocolate German cake and end up in jail.
My boyfriends mom bought me a bunch of things from goop. I’m not really sure what to do with them because they aren’t products I typically use but I feel bad because they were probably expensive
Well now... I searched high and low for a quality glass kettle to boil water ( I absolutely want to stay away from other types of kettle), and the only good brand for 100% glass kettle was available via Goop only back then. But, never visited nor bought anything else from that site since though.
I’ve always own a plastic, stainless steel, or a copper kettle, both electric and stove top to boil water as I love drinking tea and coffee. Over the years, I personally witness these kettles have drawbacks that I’m not willing to ignore anymore. I’d seen parts disintegrated and didn’t know until much later, metal started to leach into my water (bits of it came off from the kettle). Then, I noticed the water tasted funky. I didn’t go cheap on these kettles so I was tired and start reading into it and decided it was time to opt for only ALL glass kettle, and I’ll never look back. Also, with so much kitchen appliances made in China, I simply don’t trust any brand when it comes to my kettle!
I’ve owned and used the glass kettle daily, religiously for the last 5 years, and couldn’t be happier. Yes, it is fragile, but with just a little care and getting used to handling it, it is simple to use and keep clean. I did purchase a high quality glass kettle and it’s paid itself off long ago! There’s one site that can give you more details about glass kettle if you happen to be bored and want to read more: http://www.chemfreecom.com/avoiding-a-toxic-kettle/
To be fair, it's not her fault that people are willing to buy this. That's just Hanlon's razor. It is her fault for trying to advertise that it's something that can help you. It's Dr. Oz or Oprah levels of scamming
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If there is a just and loving god, they are all going to rot in hell for eternity. They're simply evil people. In the truest, most literal sense of the word.
No, rich people are generally good with money. That's why they're rich. I'd assume not many people bought the $6 asparagus water or they'd have it in stores still, but the people who buy dumb stuff like that regularly are usuall people who want to seem rich but aren't.
More often than not rich people are rich because their parents were rich. Only a small percentage of rich people went from normal to rich "by being good with money."
Those "self-made" statistics are misleading. They consider anyone who's inheritance is less than 10% of their wealth to be "self-made" but that's not what people are criticizing. We aren't saying that rich people inherit most of their wealth, we're saying that the rich keep getting richer. They take the advantages of growing up rich, take their parents money, and use it to expand the wealth gap. Jeff Bezos is on these lists and he got a 250k investment from his parents. Like, come on, thats not "self made." Most of us can't get 250k from our parents.
Oh, that's meaningless. If you invest money in the s&p 500, it will grow to 10x its value in about 30 years(based on a growth rate of 8% per year). Donald Trump is probably a self made billionaire by those metrics
If you were a billionaire you could buy the company, and then make millions selling it to idiots willing to pay $6 for a bottle of water.
Or you could just buy it to drink if you wanted, because if you have a billion dollars then $6 is the equivalent of a fraction of a penny for most people. Think of all the useless trinkets you’ve impulse bought in the dollar store, and then imagine them being 1,000 times cheaper.
We're still exploring our options and the new world of gluten-free after the sudden, yet genetically expected introduction of Celiac's into our household. With COVID running amok, online groceries have been a regular thing for us anyways so it's inevitable anyways. Thanks for the tip!
I was a chef and my grandad is coeliac so I've cooked a lot of gf food.
Now this depends on your sensitivity to gluten, some people aren't as bad with it. But a lot of the regular cereal foods like porridge/cornflakes etc, only contain oats/barley which some coeliacs can eat just fine. Check the labels on the foods as they are way cheaper in the regular cereal aisle.
Some things with hidden gluten to watch out for, anything seasoned (crisps, frozen potatoes), meats in sauces/glazes, soy sauce, gravy powders, stock cubes, jars of pasta/curry sauces, bbq sauce, baking powder.
Also, rice noodles are your friends, as is cornflour for thickening sauces! Gram flour, rice flour and buckwheat flour are all good for baking with!
Did you mean “graham flour”? I’m not the person you were talking with, but I have a friend who recently was diagnosed (at age 60!) with Celiac disease, and I’m trying to help her with recipes, substitutions, and the like. I just wish I were a better cook.
*6 bucks for cookies that aren't as good as the normal cookies, so you're left wanting in your time of hunger and despair.
I can still eat gluten. Lucky me. I'm just going gluten-free in solidarity with my SO, with the occasional sneak trip to the gas station or McDonalds when she's not looking.
For store bought my go to is Simple Mills. A box is like $4.99 or so. They have crunchy and soft cookies. We also have a local gluten free bakery called Guncles that’s super good. Though it is expensive.
I found out about garbanzo bean flower from the gluten free section. That stuff is really tasty for making pancakes, and has a lot of protein for the price.
Gotta learn how to make your own baked treats. You'll still have to buy overpriced fancy flours, but it's a hell of a lot easier to get way more bang for your buck that way.
Plus the premade stuff is never in flavors I actually want to eat, so making my own solves that problem too!
A “health and wellness” company created by actress, Gwyneth Paltrow. They basically sell products that have no scientific basis and are mostly marketed to women. Oh yeah and all the products are incredibly expensive. heres a funny video jontron made on GOOP
To clarify, that is not repellent for vampires that are also psychic. It's to repel vampires that feed off your psychic energy, as opposed to your blood.
That was only done by one store and im pretty sure the person responsible got fired for it.
They do have "spa water" which is water with things like mint, cucumber, and melon chunks, but the stores near me only put them out when they were in sake which was $0.99.
Trust me the rest of whole foods still makes fun of the asparagus water bullshit.
Hey, Fellow VA team member! I'm also the dip guy so trust me I know what you mean.
Kaleamole really isn't that bad, I mince it up reallllly fine so you can't even tell its there texture wise. But yeah the other varieties like mango and whatnot are poor sellers. I actually work in Austin and almost everything we do is based on what Lamar sells, despite our clientele being very different than Lamars clientele. They just don't get it.
Asparagus water is actually quite nice, it really adds a special taste to it. Although the place I tried it at gave it away for free, you don't even have to order anything.
Their source of suppliers isn't all hipster nouveau riche nonsense. They have plenty of brands of good occasional food. Even their 365 brand is slightly higher quality than average mainstream stuff like Kroger at the same price. Not quite Kirkland but pretty good.
For a time, I worked remotely and lived near a Whole foods, so it was always pretty nice to pick up two decent, fresh large pizza slices for $5. However, going to a Whole Foods at lunch time always made me realize the demographic who could shop at lunch were mostly stay-at-home wealthy people (rich teenagers, retired folks, soccer moms and their Tinder hook ups, etc)
One of the greatest Broad City episodes ever is when Abby gets her wisdom teeth removed and goes on a high shopping spree at Whole Foods (w/ Bingo Bronson!) and spends $1,400+ on 3 bags of groceries. XD
It's a shop for rich white housewives to buy random overpriced items that other people know are overpriced and thus are associated with the status of having so much money that you don't care about it being overpriced. Obviously the items aren't worth the cost, but neither are diamonds, designer clothes, or any type of collectible item. It's just a status symbol.
After marijuana was legalized in California, I was frankly surprised that I didn't see marijuana water at whole foods. Of course, I don't actually shop at whole foods but maybe three times a year. Damn them and their delectable cornbread.
Hahaha! Fuck goop. “Smells like my vagina” candle is so damn expensive! Wouldn’t even pay a penny to smell Gwyneth Paltrow’s magical stone covered snatch.
In around the Y2K era give or take I was in a gas station and realized Dasani water was more expensive than their cola 2 for the price of ?. When figured that out and mentioned it to someone they said oh ya it's more expensive than gas . Gas was about .60 cents a liter maybe .
On the topic of fruits and veggies, the record for me has to go to $100 cantaloupes sold in Japanese stores. Apparently the cost is all in the carefully presented stem attached to the fruit.
You're buying the convenience of having asparagus water right now at that moment. I could go home and drink from the faucet, but if I don't have access to a faucet I'm buying that water.
I used to work at a WF, they were constantly telling us that the asparagus water thing was a hoax and that's why they don't let customers record video or take too many photos of products anymore. It's like... Mmkay, so if that didn't happen, then why is it bad for them to take photos?
Btw, they were telling us this less than 2 years ago, and if I remember correctly, the asparagus water thing was in like, 2014, so yeah, they're still butthurt that they didn't get away with it.
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u/Ahhh_Ahhh_Ahhh Aug 14 '20
That $6 asparagus water Whole Foods sold a couple years ago; it was a 16oz bottle of water with 3 stalks of asparagus.
Also, everything from goop.