[Sca-cooks] Food rant...

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

Wow, I'm shocked that WFM out there is so bad!  We have some of their
child stores, Fresh Fields, out here.  (They'll all be changing their
names to Whole Foods in a few months.)  While I see what you mean about
the high produce displays, the ones out here have both high and low
produce bag dispensers, rarely have temporary shelves in aisles (and
when they do, they push it to one side, not in the middle of the aisle
like some stores do,) and are *extremely* polite about helping anybody
out, whether it's carrying something heavy, reaching something high, or
going in the back to get me a whole case of soy milk or to see if they
have any more acorn squash.  While the aisles are narrower than a
conventional grocery store, they are wide enough for wheelchairs (I see
wheelchairs in there regularly,) and are way more spacious than local
health food stores.  The parking lots are always clean of carts.  And,
the corporation has gotten numerous kudos for their practices, including
how they treat their employees and customers, how they encourage their
employees to drop everything to help customers and to be knowledgeable
about every product in the store, and for service in every community
where they have a presence.  If it is that bad out there, I'd write to
their corporate parent and complain - this is the kind of corporation
that will actually do something about it.

Oh, and out here they carry Stonyfield (why do I always mis-speak it as
Stoneybrook?) Farms whole-milk, both plain and vanilla in quarts and in
a variety of really cool flavors in 6-oz cups.  In addition to several
normal fruit flavors, they have things like mocha, chocolate, and
caramel.  I find it easy enough, though, to buy quarts of plain yogurt
and bags of frozen organic berries or fruit, and assemble a rubbermaid
cup full each morning.  Or assemble it into four cups every few days,
each time I open a new quart.  www.stonyfield.com has a store locator
for places that carry their goods.

Gorgeous Muiredach wrote:

>
>> Try a health food store, like Whole Foods Market.  You should be able to
>> find several brands of whole milk yogurt, and plain diced tomatoes.
>
>
> Good suggestion.  Problem is...  I boycott Whole Foods Market, because of
> the level of discrimination they show to people with disabilities, and the
> general lack of responsiveness they have shown when issues are being
> brought up.  I dont' know about WFM in other parts of the country, but
> 'round here, they are *really* bad.  Things such as plastic bags being out
> fo reach (too high), the way fruits and vegetables are being displayed
> (also way too high), the way they use extra "temporary" shelves and
> displays in the aisles make them too narrow for a wheelchair, the way they
> don't regularly clear shopping carts from the accessible parking spaces
> (shopping at that mall, had that problems 3 times in less than a week, each
> time lodging a complaint, to no avail), the way they don't have the
> required number of accessible parking spaces, and the list goes on...
>
> They do carry *plain* whole milk yogurt, but not the flavoured stuff I
> really like...  <shrug>
>
>
> Gorgeous Muiredach
> Rokkehealden Shire
> Kingdom of the Middle
> aka
> Nicolas Steenhout
> "You must deal with me as I think of myself" J. Hockenberry