America’s Angriest Store: How Whole Foods Attracts Complete Shitheads.

[Demeter]

ACTUALLY, THE ISSUE OF HOW THEY DO IT NEVER ARISES...BUT IT IS AN ENTERTAINING STORY.

I'VE ENDURED THE COMPANY OF THE THE ALL-TOO-PRECIOUS AND THEIR DELICATE DIGESTIONS AND HIGH PRINCIPLES...SO I HEARTILY RECOMMEND THIS TO YOU AS STRESS RELIEF.

https://medium.com/culture-club/americas-angriest-store-d778c31aa9be

[shenmue]

1. Please consider shutting off the Caps Lock

[Demeter]

7. I use caps to distinguish between my own thoughts and the original post

so that there's no confusion over who said what.

[shenmue]

10. Quotation marks accomplish the same thing.

[Demeter]

12. Quotation marks are regularly featured in many articles

All caps are not. The distinction is immediately made.

[corkhead]

22. I would prefer an earth-tone utilized for your text rather than unadventurous black

While I'm at it, I think you should use an image of Snoopy in your avatar only when it includes Woodstock.


please.

Great article btw.

[jberryhill]

25. More compound sentences please

That post was much too curt and choppy.

[jeff47]

23. That's what the excerpt button is for.

So that someone else's thoughts can be shown like this:

so that there's no confusion over who said what.

Most people read all-caps as yelling.

[Suich]

2. I shopped there for about 3-4 months some years ago.

The store was great, plenty of parking, beautiful flowers, terrific produce and a huge wine selection. I was also spending about 50% more than I do now.

Funny article!

[Warpy]

3. Rush hour shopping is always like that

which is why I'd rather be shot than do it.

Birdman had likely spent his whole day being picked on by upper managers and was eager to get home to his empty apartment, his nuke it in a box dinner, and his X Box.

But yes, Whole Paycheck draws a more entitled crowd. The rest of us can't afford it.

[femmocrat]

4. Funny article.

We don't have Whole Foods here... but the produce in that photo looks beautiful!

[muntrv]

5. I live around the corner from a Whole Foods. I try to shop there at 8 pm, when there is less of a

crowd. Otherwise you cannot move. Customers there gawk at the merchandise.

[Xipe Totec]

6. My son works at a Whole Foods and oh, the stories he tells...

Like the time he had to deal with a customer enraged because they did not bake challah bread fresh in the store every day and only had prepackaged challah bread on the shelves. The guy's rage only increased as my son patiently explained that baking challah bread in the store would set expectations that they could not meet, like being Kosher challah.

- You are Jewish, I presume?
- Yes, I am.
- And you would want your challah bread to be kosher, right?
- Absolutely!
- Well, unfortunately the store does not have a rabbi on staff to supervise the production of our bread, so we can't make kosher challah.
- What! That's outrageous! Let me speak to a supervisor...

And on, and on, and on.

[Historic NY]

8. I don't have a Whole foods but we do have shoppers like that...

at my market. I remember one lady loudly yacking in her cell phone how later she was going to be to pickup her daughter...she thought she should have had her full cart checked out on Fri night rush hour before everyone else. She kept proclaiming it thinking someone would let her go ahead. I gave her the look of STFU or leave. I think the world is loaded with birdman, they try to shit on others.

[Demeter]

9. It didn't used to be that way

Not in the Midwest, anyway, where I am surrounded by the Precious. Well, it is Ann Arbor....but Detroit, where I was born and raised, never had such pretensions.

[MannyGoldstein]

11. We have a bunch of Whole Paychecks around here

Have not observed that sort of behavior. It might be regional.

[Demeter]

13. Which of your multiple personalities is that, Manny?

Each persona picks up on different aspects....(I don't know how you stay sane...but then, I don't know how Stephen Colbert did it, either.)

[MannyGoldstein]

14. First-Way Manny reporting for duty!

(I assure you that none of the posse is sane.)

The people inhabiting the Whole Paychecks in the wealthier part of town look unhappy and kinda pruny, but they act fine.

The people working at the stores are acting distinctly less happy these days - I understand that management is starting to squeeze workers to boost profits. The folks at Trader Joes still seem to be a band of happy mutants, fortunately.

[Demeter]

15. Whole foods is getting beaten by its competition

Rumors of a takeover have risen all last year...

http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/31/investing/whole-foods/

[MannyGoldstein]

16. That's why they're squeezing employees, I guess

I was at the one local to us a few weeks ago (Newtonville), and there was a new employee there that I didn't recognize. He had a slightly-odd look to him, like an agitated homeless person, but he was working alongside the other staff and seemed to be doing fine.

By coincidence, the next day I saw a picture of Whole Foods' CEO (the original one that's a bit nutty), and... that's the "new employee" that I saw. Apparently the employees in Newtonville have been troublemakers.

Some good news for WF, though: the medical marijuana dispensary that's opening up in our town will be right by that WF store. I have no doubt that the MM folks will be wandering in for tasty-yet-nutritious munchies.

[Doctor_J]

19. This sounds like actual liberal Manny

And your post presumes that these are just different personae, and not actual different beings. I think it's really 3 separate corpses posting from the same account when the others aren't looking.

[petronius]

17. LOL! I think I had a junior version of Birdman behind me in line last time I was in WF - the dude

was practically peeing himself in irritation at not being able to reach the conveyor belt, to put down his one kiwi and pint of coconut water (or whatever it was). Not that it was even all that crowded or slow in the store, but the injustice was palpable...

[Overseas]

18. K&R. Fun article.

[Doctor_J]

20. It is fun, kind of a riff on Portlandia

[Paladin]

21. K&R. Always nice to see an expertly-done hipster beat-down. (nt)

[stuffmatters]

24. Sprouts is half the price & narcissism, too tough competish for WF

In San Diego the "killer" combo is Sprouts by a Trader Joe's with a growing allure of Ralph's (99c fresh herb bundles & incresingly inexpensive organic vegs) Sprouts started here as a family business & it's beloved by all because of it's prices & commitment to
crap free food. Wf hasn't been able to appropriate Boney's into Sprouts faithful clientele.

And Sprouts is expanding nationwide. My bro in OKC is thrilled it came there. I hope every city gets a Sprouts someday!

I've noticed that Trader Joe's becoming increasingly expensive over the years. (I've been shopping tthere since "Pronto" in the early 70's) And yeah, the basket boogie is hard, but I think @ TJ it's less narcissism and more "trance"