They keep all the good beer in the back. You have to ask them.

First Apple, and now this. Jeez, these hipsters seem to have a lot of disposable income.

I see the boycott is really having an impact on their sales. They're really on the ropes now. Weeks away from bankruptcy. Yep. Toast.

Oakenshield: First Apple, and now this. Jeez, these hipsters seem to have a lot of disposable income.

Whole Foods is barely more expensive than Wal-Mart IF you catch the items you want on sale at Whole Foods. There have even a few times where I've found Whole Foods sales were actually cheaper than Wal-Mart. You just need to be lucky and be on the look-out.

Organic food should cost less than industrially produced foods. The farmer saves lots of money on herbacides persticides, processing, grading, waxing fruit all the foolish things people expect for nonorganic fruits and vegtables.

the higher costs you see at the grocery store are all mark up, usually by the retailer.

There is an excellent book on the subject called One Straw Revolution.
One Straw Revolution at Amazon

/good for you foods at a good price, your best bet is to buy local

AlgaeRancher: Organic food should cost less than industrially produced foods. The farmer saves lots of money on herbacides persticides, processing, grading, waxing fruit all the foolish things people expect for nonorganic fruits and vegtables.

the higher costs you see at the grocery store are all mark up, usually by the retailer.

There is an excellent book on the subject called One Straw Revolution.
One Straw Revolution at Amazon

/good for you foods at a good price, your best bet is to buy local


Buy local? Only if your local farmers are using proper and healthy techniques.

Your opinion about saving money by being organic makes no sense if they are competing price wise with non organic food that can sell a hundred times as much product.

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Agricultural economics is a complex topic, the book I referenced covers the subject well. My statements are only about the costs of the process and wilingness of retailers to mark up organic foods because people are willing to pay more for them.

Your statement mentions economies of scale "if they are competing price wise with non organic food that can sell a hundred times as much product."
that is a whole other topic, for purposes of comparing organic and industrial farming it is best to assume that the two farms are about the same size.

and one good thing about buying local is that you can see who grew the food. At the grocery store you really just have no idea who grew it and just have to have faith that the grocery store has trustworthy suppliers.

best solution of all is to grow your own fruits and vegtables... if you can.

when I bought this it lost half its value in under a year.. grrr

So, that boycott thing, how did it work out?

The flagship store in Austin rocks. The south store is opening in a month or so, complete with bar. Biking distance for me, which is nice.

No hipster here - I just can't eat food with MSG anymore :(

First Apple, and now this. Jeez, these hipsters seem to have a lot of disposable income.

Not sure what's hipster about it. Expensive, yes, and with an extensive selection of hippie-dippy bullshiat offered alongside the food, but those aren't really hipster qualities. Whole Foods sells to urban and suburban professionals with high incomes who have a foodie bent, a strong undercurrent of hippie values, or both. That includes most high-earning city dwellers these days, and most of the exceptions are people who vigilantly police themselves to avoid either of those traits.

Also, I give Whole Foods and other high-end grocery stores 100% credit for the fact that I can stop at many middlebrow grocery stores and have a decent chance of finding a fennel bulb or more than one kind of potato. Whole Foods obviously wasn't the first, but its financial success opened a lot of of people's eyes to the fact that people wanting products like that is not really unusual anymore.

AlgaeRancher: Organic food should cost less than industrially produced foods. The farmer saves lots of money on herbacides persticides, processing, grading, waxing fruit all the foolish things people expect for nonorganic fruits and vegtables.

the higher costs you see at the grocery store are all mark up, usually by the retailer.

There is an excellent book on the subject called One Straw Revolution.
One Straw Revolution at Amazon

/good for you foods at a good price, your best bet is to buy local

As a local producer, this is not necessarily true. A lot of those "extras" are practically free on the scale that they are employed by large distributers/corporate growers, and they often reduce spoilage in transit and distribution.

I've figured out how to circumvent some of these increased costs for local producers, but you'll have to read my dissertation for yourself.

Yeah "hipster" means you actually want NATURAL FOOD to eat rather than genetically modified, and heavily pesticide'd food.

Farkin idiots.

/will be growing my own veggies using hydroponic method real soon.