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America’s angriest store?

I have to say, this hasn’t been my experience, but I don’t go that often — I think most of the food is way overpriced. It might be partly a function of geography.

Via Dr. Eades:

[Update a few minutes later]

Wrong link, fixed now, sorry.

12 thoughts on “Whole Foods”

  2. This is very, very true. I can’t tell you how many times middle-aged women (99 percent of the time it’s women.) have cut me off, refused to hold the door open for me as they leave and jumped ahead of me in line.

    For the most part, it is women 55 and older, but Seattle caters to pissed-off feminists, so it can happen with younger women. I always figured it was that selfish, “stick it to the patriarchy” sort of feminazi attitude.

  3. I find that WF and the local equivalent (we have a local/regional competitor here) tend to attract clueless, entitled customers more than angry ones, at least here in Portland.

    (The staff, at least, are always thoroughly professional and nice.)

    1. I must agree. The staff is very courteous.

      However, a friend of mine who is in her forties applied for a job. They told her she probably wouldn’t be a good fit. Maybe she gave off an air of conservativism.

  5. There’s a Trader Joe’s in a town about 20 miles from me, which makes it one of the closest supermarkets (there’s a walmart equally close). I have long loved Trader Joe’s, and the store and staff are great. BUt… the customers? Ugh. Loud, pushy, sanctimonious egotistical moronse seem to make up a large percentage. Not a majority, but sure enough to notice.

    To give one example from my last visit; a middle aged woman in line behind me was looking at some of the goodies on the checkout aisle shelves, and was giving a LOUD running commentary to the person standing next to her. Very loud – she wanted the whole store to hear. She was going on and on about “it’s about damn time they got some sugar-free stuff! Pathetic, ignorant… ” Well, I happen to strongly agree with her stance on sugar, so it’s her behavior that bugged the hell out of me.

    Oh, and the younger women? Some of them are physically, not just vocally, rude. They are the ones who push and shove, with never so much as an apology. I don’t like this done to me, but what really bugs the hell out of me is when I see them do this to elderly people.

    And one other thing; I’ve noticed that these rude, loud, abusive people almost unerringly get into cars plastered with lefty stickers. (though, in fairness, it’s not universal… an occasional one has stickers from the opposite side of the spectrum). However, what’s most striking is that there seems to be a huge correlation between the number of stickers and the person’s asshat level.

  6. Birdman was back in line moments later, down but not defeated. Now he was talking about writing an email to the president of Whole Foods.

    “He needs to know about these things!”

    LOL. Am I the only one who read that and was reminded of “If only Stalin knew”?

  7. Infiltrate WF’s produce sections with GM products. Do the same for the fish with GM salmon. Announce these facts to Birdman and his friends as they’re leaving the store, AFTER having paid for their goodies. Then observe with great pleasure massive amounts of screams, hair-pulling, chest-clutching, possible heart attacks, and maybe even some honourable acts of seppuku in the store’s parking lot.

    1. No, they’ll just turn right around and go back through the checkout, demanding full refunds — plus punitive damages and/or reparations.

  8. These entitled Whole Foods pussies wouldn’t stand a chance if they pulled those stunts in a Super WalMart checkout line.

    😉

    Dave

    Love it when the greeters hand out stick on tattoos so the kids can look just like their folks!

  10. I get groceries at a local Walmart regularly, and have never seen this kind of behavior.

    A possible reason for such behavior I’ve yet to see suggested is that these are literally spoiled people who never had to deal with adversity. It’s a cinch they’ve never worked in (say) a restaurant as a server or manager out front. They wouldn’t last 2 minutes.

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