After seminar on Monday, Jerry and I whent out to the brand new Whole Foods market on Woodward. I don’t know what took me so late in the game to get out there, but it was a locavore’s oasis! Michigan Products were clearly labeled, and so were Organic ones. When I was hovering around the produce getting my greens and fruits, a woman who worked at the store, plausibly a manager, was being interviewed by God knows who, but they had a legit cinematographic camera, dictaphones, those overhead recording mics, headphones, and notepads, so you know they meant business. Especially because of the headphones and the notepads. They were on a mission. Clearly. But they were asking some well thought out questions, like:<\/p>\n
Do you think that highway traffic from suburbanites coming to midtown to experience Whole Foods will counter some of the ecological benefits Whole Foods itself strives for?<\/em><\/p>\n Could this whole foods encourage a European dietary style for local residents, in which they go out daily grocery shopping for daily provisions rather than weekly for weekly provisions as we do here in America?”<\/em><\/p>\n Meanwhile I’m standing there thinking “Well, we here in America just like to get it done in one fell swoop and would kind of find it a pain in the I-can’t-say-on-this-blog to have to go out food shopping every friggin’ day<\/em>…”<\/p>\n Anyhow, I noticed that I am a perimeter shopper yesterday… I stay on the perimeter of the store where the produce, deli, stands, bakery, and freezer wall thingys are… I only noticed this when I was at the check out line and wondered why I was satisfied with the provisions in my basket, but had no idea what wonders lay in the aisles… This puzzle has struck me before in other markets…<\/p>\n So the happy ending is that the weeks worth of provisions from Whole foods were 2 times as expensive as at La Colmena… I’m torn guys. 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