Whole foods generally treats its employees fairly well, if I'm not mistaken. Amazon treats them like disposable labor-units of no importance but for their ability to work like slaves. If I was a Whole Foods employee I'd be looking for new work ASAP.
Did Amazon make things shitty for Zappos workers when it bought Zappos? I don't recall. In conclusion, late capitalism.
Anyway, maybe I'll check out that "Aldi" thing I keep hearing people talk about.
I don't know what kind of book selection they have though.
Somewhat to my surprise, I don't hate what Bezos has done with the WaPo.
Yes. I keep getting emails from the NYT asking me to subscribe again. I keep wanting to reply, "My new standard is you have to suck less than the Washington Post."
3. It may be different in America, but in Britain Aldi is fine for bulk/day-to-day stuff, but you need to identify somewhere a bit upmarket for anything remotely unusual (stuff the Tates would buy regularly but the Campbells only on special occasions, if you're old enough to get the reference.)
I am old enough to get the reference, feel a bit embarrassed at how much I laughed at what can charitably be called an unnuanced portrayal of homosexuality, and then wonder if it is still on Netflix anyway.
4: Whole Foods' book selection is pretty limited in my experience.
1: Didn't we have a commenter who worked there and said it sucked? I want to say BG might I might be remembering that wrong.
I still will always have a fond memory of Whole Foods because I remember how crappy local groceries were before they came here.
I reacted (with system 1) surprisingly negatively to this, even though I don't particularly like whole foods.
Their sage breakfast sausage takes so much longer to cook than your standard Bob Evans breakfast sausage. I think because it has so much water that needs to cook out.
Also, Whole Foods is the only grocery store in the same complex as the good liquor store. That's hard to beat.
1: Whole Foods is surely not as shitty as Amazon. But, having worked there, I wouldn't say we were well treated. My old-school local supermarkets mostly have unionized employees.
Awesome news! Prices will go down for everyone!
The WF staff in Madison was trying (I think unsuccessfully) to unionize while I was living there, and did things like firing one of the organizers for drinking a latte made in error. This was my introduction to the franchise, and nothing I read about John Mackey ever made me feel much more warmly towards it. In conclusion: yes, we should spare only the WaPo. (But actually maybe the unionization was successful? And then I had to feel guilty for still not wanting to reward Whole Foods by shopping there, because it was such a fundamentally superfluous place.)
and management did things like...
The guy who used to run Whole Foods certainly paid better than Walmart, but he was just as anti-union as them.
Back when I lived in Cleveland I noticed while shopping there that the Whole Foods in Cleveland Heights seemed to be a big local Friday/Saturday night singles hang out. I'm not sure what that says about the locals.
18: And the food will be delivered directly into your refrigerator!
The wet produce apron contests were too much.
We don't have a WF I suppose the point of this thing is that now we will.
Lincoln has one now. Come for the eclipse, stay for the groceries.
Aldi is like Trader Joe's (literally, owned by the other brother in the family) except cheaper and with a smaller selection. Worth it to get your giant bag of onions for a dollar.
I don't really know what I would do with that big of a bag of onions unless it were cold enough that I wanted soup.
I'm going to the bar for dinner and this is making me hungry. Because I have another hour or two of work.
Since the deep fryer is still broken here, I'm eating healthier.
Also, it turns out much of the indoor air quality issues must have been from the fryer instead of from everybody smoking.
Somebody played Springsteen's "Your Hometown"and it's going me s sad.
I take it Bezos has convinced himself that the Amazon brand is more or less impregnable among consumers at this point.
Now somebody played "Boy Named Sue."
Just hope they don't go for Sylvia's Mother.
I'm probably going to play a whole Meatloaf album on my way out the door.
The marginal utility of a Straub decreases after five.
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onions keep pretty well and are in most dishes we cook. We'd probably use them over 2-3 weeks.
AARRRRGh. Just saw this news. Time to start getting religious about going to my local co-op grocery, even though they carry no meat-related substances. Yeah yeah, I shoulda been going there all along. And yeah yeah, every time I went, I was, like, "why don't come here more often". but WF was 4 blocks away, mang.
ARRRGH. I hate my country's rulers.
So Apple just forced 2-factor authentication for signing in to iCloud (a good thing) but has locked me out of using my Android phone for my email (evil!). I don't have any Apple devices anymore but I've had a .mac email account from the first year they started. WTF? Anyone have any idea what to do? The one most unhelpful article I saw said I can get a verification code from my iPhone (don't have!) or iPad (also don't have).
If this means I'll finally be able to get asparagus water delivered by drone, I don't see how there could possibly be a downside.
43 That makes your pee smell bad.
I saw an interesting article saying that perhaps it was time to think about breaking up Amazon on antitrust grounds. I'm kind of curious to see what they do from a distribution infrastructure standpoint--reqional roboticized delivery centers, last-mile delivery by drone, etc.--but maybe rather than breaking them up, we nationalize them.
Not subjective, genetic. And how much of the motivation to do that study do you think was driven by the fact they got to use "Pee value" in the paper title.
That shows noticing the smell is genetic, not that some people don't enjoy the odor.
42: I can't say I fully understand what you're describing, but there's something called Google Authenticator? Something like that. Amazon recently implemented 2-factor authentication, and some people who don't have a second phone number to list as a back-up have been using this, erm, Google authenticator thingy. Don't know if that helps.
Barry, google "icloud app specific password"
50 The page I clicked on for the explanation had "Jeff Butts" as the example in the user name and I can't stop giggling. Also, I'm twelve.
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