[AGL] Re: [FedUp] A couple of items for the grocery discussion...

[Harry Edwards]

What's there now is Wheatsville Coop. Members get 5% off their bill.    
            twisty

On Mar 18, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Wayne Johnson wrote:

> Whatever happened to the Food Co-op on North Guadalup, some blocks 
> north of UT/Dirty Martin's?
>  
> Whole Foods is DeLuxe Yuppie Foode Ville in Palo Alto, CA.  The 
> Berkeley Coop was much the cheaper.  There were, of course, people 
> like Delmonicos in the Stanford Shopping Center which was Ultra 
> Gourmet Expensive but especially good if one just HAD to serve 24 
> different kinds of imported olives at one's Sunday Brunch!
>  
> JJ&F Market just south of Stanford Campus had great veggies because 
> John or maybe Frank it was who went down to the produce morning at 4 
> am every day to pick 'em out. 
>  
> We shopped heavily at various local farmer's markets in the summer 
> even if we spent as much money.  At least I could look into the eyes 
> of the women and men who actually grew and picked most of the food.  
> Many small Italian and Armenian farmers still in the area there.  But 
> you have to look hard to find them some times and all farmer's markets 
> are NOT the same.  No way.
>  
> Some of the best sweet corn in the world was grown near Hutto and 
> Granger north of Austin.  G'town had great pears, peachs and pecans.
>  
> wgJ
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Frances Morey
>> To: Jane Walker
>> Cc: Austin List
>> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 11:20 AM
>> Subject: [AGL] Re: [FedUp] A couple of items for the grocery 
>> discussion...
>>
>> Hi, Jane,
>> I can credit you with the early-on info on Whole Foods...
>> Write once in a while.
>> Best,
>> Frances
>>
>> Frances Morey <frances_morey at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> One early-on employee told me that first-time-shoppers at WF would 
>>> cruise the lanes and fill up their baskets as usual only to find 
>>> that the total after check-out was as much as double what they were 
>>> used to paying. On many occasions, she told me, such shoppers would 
>>> turn away and leave their full grocery basket behind without 
>>> paying, stunned from market shock.
>>>  
>>> Whole Foods is more about conspicous consumption than anthing else. 
>>> After all a tomato is a tomato is a tomato. What is the opposite of 
>>> organic anyway, inorganic?
>>> Pesticides can be washed off. Who would find it more desirable 
>>> to share the food supply with insects than wash their produce with 
>>> soap and water? Often shoppers will turn up their noses at any 
>>> evidence of insect bites which are inevitable without some form of 
>>> an insecticide shield.
>>>  
>>> The wealth in America is staggering, unprecidented in human 
>>> history. Any venue for showing it off is embraced, even grocery 
>>> shopping. I go to WF as I would to a restaurant and think of it 
>>> as the biggest deli on earth. I'm glad to know that WF pays well, 
>>> which not always reflects in employee attention to customers. I 
>>> discontinued using Celestial Seasoning tea when I saw a mention in a 
>>> business zine that bragged about their paying minimum wage.
>>>  
>>> Thanks for turning us on to the Johnson Farm on Holly St. I saw it 
>>> and thought it was some kind of community garden. I paid 
>>> $4.50 last Wednesday for their smallest brownie and two little 
>>> turnips at Boggy Creek Farm, paying for the the chance to see 
>>> their chickens, old timey garden and hob nobbing more than for the 
>>> food. The boquet of snapdragons cost as much as a similar sized 
>>> boquet of roses at HEB.
>>>  
>>> I preferred Trader Toms (or something like that) when I was in San 
>>> Francisco. It was kinda like a chain of Wheatsville Co-ops with even 
>>> more reasonable pricing. Before Alamo Drafthouse South captured the 
>>> old Fiesta, nee City Market, location on S. Lamar I envisioned a 
>>> Tom's as a kick ass competitor to both WF, Central Market and 
>>> Wheatsville. Ah, no luck. They only operate on the West Coast and up 
>>> East.
>>>  
>>> Frances Morey
>>>
>>>
>>> Sherry Coldsmith <sherry at coldchrist.org> wrote:
>>>> The first link is to an article that rags on Whole Foods.  The 
>>>> second
>>>> link may be of interest to Austinites who really do want to buy
>>>> locally.  I get my veg from Johnson's and the quality if superb.   
>>>> Tho
>>>> you have some control over what they bring you in the weekly or
>>>> bi-weekly box, you'll also get some exotics, like kohlrabi, which 
>>>> will
>>>> require you to sharpen your culinary skills and look up a few 
>>>> recipes.
>>>>
>>>> Sherry
>>>>
>>>> http://www.slate.com/id/2138176/
>>>>
>>>> http://www.localharvest.org/farms/M12509
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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