Comments on: Note to Whole Foods: More Samples, Less Service

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:27:49 +0000

I’m sorry if I came over as supercilious.

I was wearing a Virginia Chutney Co. apron and don’t work for Whole Foods. My family makes the chutney and in order to spread the word, we then hand out samples. Even though some of my best friends are “sample shovelers”, when you ignored our “slow cooked, southern-style chutneys” I took it personally and snapped.

Regards,

Oliver

By: Big Head DC » City Paper Staffers Asked to Stop Stealing Food

Big Head DC » City Paper Staffers Asked to Stop Stealing Food — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:03:23 +0000

[...] Whole Foods, you go straight to the bakery section and work your way to the front,” Gould wrote in the controversial post. “The bakery’s good for some fresh bread and, if you’re lucky, a bit of Mo’s Dipping [...]

By: NoVa Greg

NoVa Greg — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:00:55 +0000

Hey, Ward 2: Take a business class. It's all part of the bottom line.

By: Ward 2

Ward 2 — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:59:16 +0000

Oh, Please. Like WF actually factors the cost of free samples into their food prices. Was it the P streets WF? They've got the greatest profits of any in the entire chain, or so their employees like to boast.

By: NoVa Greg

NoVa Greg — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:17:38 +0000

I'd have to agree with Roy. Your moaning about lack of free samples shows what a juvenile moocher you are. Perhaps if people like you bought more groceries at Whole Foods instead of STEALING olives and SHOPLIFTING grapes and welshing old bread crumbs, the prices would be cheaper for ALL OF US. Stop thinking you're entitled to handouts just because you are a "cool" writer working for a paper that does dubious public good, and start living within your means like the rest of us. Can't wait for your next post: details about how you're pissed off at the Mercedes dealership for not allowing you an extended 48 hour roadtrip "test drive."

By: Roy

Roy — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:41:11 +0000

Samples are for paying customers to sample, not so some starving writers can get fed for free. Yes whole foods is expensive, but they don't owe you anything. There was no "implicit" agreement that you get to steal their samples because you were to uppity to shop at cheaper markets. If you didn't want to overpay for groceries, haul your ass to the local asian market (H-Mart, woot!), which literally costs 50% less than even Safeway/Giant. Of course, you'll have to wash the Spinach extra carefully to remove all the "organic fertilizer", but at least the meats at the asian markets are of superior quality. What starving writers and artistes who had morals did at my liberal arts college was dumpster dive at the local upscale grocery.

By: rob

rob — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:02:46 +0000

People like you are messing up free samples. I can't believe you wrote about it too.

There must not be any shame or decency in your world. I suppose you take freebies from soup kitchens too?

By: DC1974

DC1974 — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:16:37 +0000

If you stick to only the 365 brand stuff -- you'll probably pay about the same or a little less than at TJ's. And there is basically no produce at TJ's just a bunch of over-packaged samplettes.

By: valentine

valentine — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:30:45 +0000

Ya gotta read this:

http://thecompanybitch.blogspot.com/2006/04/banned-from-whole-foods.html

By: LooLoo

LooLoo — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:39:27 +0000

Can never shop at Whole Foods - they don't call it Whole Paycheck for nuthin'! Trader Joe's is almost as good & a lot cheaper anyway (barely any samples, but you can get a 3 oz cup of free coffee)