What keeps me going back, actually, are the supplements. All kinds of weird shit I'm supposed to be giving my kid for this reason, that reason, another reason, and I can find pretty much everything I need at Whole Foods. The only thing is, the one downtown doesn't seem to stock 1 thing, and the one at Gateway is usually out of, or undersupplied on, another, so I end up going to both at various times.
And I end up buying food (and chocolate!) while I'm at it.
the thing that keeps me going there is that everyone else wildly gouges for the gluten free stuff so much that the store looks cheap. you guys are well on your way to having my small, annoying special interest group wrapped up.
Gluten free is a big deal for us. We're always getting tons of gluten free baked goods and other stuff as samples, and our own bakehouses are always tinkering with recipes. I don't know how big a market it is, but it's one that we've really worked at. Gluten levels have a powerful effect on a lot of recipes, and most gluten-free stuff I've tasted is unholy crap, but some of it is as good or better than the glutinous stuff. One way we keep our prices down is pushing volume on it
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Cheese this, cheese that, I never knew what you were nattering on about. But now I too have been sucked into the Whole Foods fancy cheese vortex. They call it Whole Paycheck, but everything there is a lot cheaper than at the grocery store by me, which is alas a Treasure Island now. I've finally started shopping at the south Loop Whole Foods sometimes. I particularly like that it's easy to buy local-ish fancy cheeses that are grouped together in a little display area, including some of the same stuff that we got at farmers markets in the summer.
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What cheese do you like best currently?
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O: No.
C: Camembert, perhaps?
O: Ah! We have Camembert, yessir.
C: (suprised) You do! Excellent.
O: Yessir. It's..ah,.....it's a bit runny...
C: Oh, I like it runny.
O: Well,.. It's very runny, actually, sir.
C: No matter. Fetch hither the fromage de la Belle France! Mmmwah!
O: I...think it's a bit runnier than you'll like it, sir.
C: I don't care how fucking runny it is. Hand it over with all speed.
O: Oooooooooohhh........! (pause)
C: What now?
O: The cat's eaten it.
C: (pause) Has he?
O: She, sir.
(pause)
C: Gouda?
O: No.
C: Edam?
O: No.
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