Tag: Whole Foods

Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Behold the Genius of Vegan Tuna: Whole Foods Trends of 2018

 

Dear eater, are your mushrooms dysfunctional? Do they just lie there on your plate, limply, underperforming? Then we have great news for you! Functional mushrooms are just one of Whole Food’s food trends for 2018. Yes, now your mushrooms can function again!

Well, not your mushrooms. Not the dull, familiar mushrooms you’re used to eating. They’re just edible, not functional – these days, merely functioning as food simply isn’t functioning hard enough. No, we mean mushrooms with names like “reishi, chaga, cordyceps, and lion’s mane”. Which are not a kind of massage, disease, surgical implement, or feline fringe, respectively, though we understand the confusion. Whole Foods explains,

Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Will Amazon’s Purchase of Whole Foods Make the Power of Big Tech a Big Political Issue?

 

The business and consumer implications of the $1​4​ billion Amazon-Whole Foods deal are myriad, both short term (​”​the boring U.S. grocery business is about to become much more interesting​“)​ and long term (“the decision by Amazon and Walmart to compete for my grocery business​ … ​are tiny battles in a war to dominate a changing global economy​“​).​

But there is also a political implication that goes beyond politics. As soon as I heard of the acquisition, I thought of some of Candidate Trump’s comments about Amazon, such as these to Fox News:

This [Washington Post] is owned as a toy by Jeff Bezos, who controls Amazon. ​Amazon is getting away with murder tax-wise. He’s using the Washington Post for power so that the politicians in Washington don’t tax Amazon like they should be taxed​.​ He’s using the Washington Post … for political purposes to save Amazon in terms of taxes and in terms of antitrus​t.​

Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Walmart, Whole Foods, Sam’s Club, and Costco

 

From Priceonomicsshutterstock_383776771, a survey on where people spend their grocery money and how much cash they drop doing it:

Our curiosity about grocery shopping bills inspired us to analyze data on the the typical amount spent at the most popular stores in the United States. For this analysis, we used data from Perfect Price, a company that maintains a database of billions of credit card transactions. This data allowed us to understand exactly how much people spend when they go to different stores.

What they discovered is that people spend the most at Costco, followed closely by Sam’s Club. This makes sense, I guess: when you go to those places you’re there to shop. Everything is giant-sized and stacked on pallets. People spend, on average, $136 per Costco visit and $81 at Sam’s Club.

Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Thankful for: Whole Foods

 

Yes, Whole Foods is an elitist foodie kind of place. There’s something truly irritating about its smug way of selling groceries. Though its CEO and founder is a free-market devotee (that’s no small thing) who has spoken out against Obamacare, the place still reeks of progressive self-satisfaction.

I love it, of course. But that can’t be news, can it?

Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Member Post

 

The good folks at the Independent Women’s Forum sent a letter the other day to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack expressing concern about the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee becoming overly ideological. Brace yourself: The guidelines recommend taking great care to feed humanity while being mindful of the carbon footprint consuming food requires … no matter the […]

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