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On What Do Your Groceries Say About You?
@Fig. 1 where are you shopping? you could easily pick up most of those commodities for half of what you listed in any bravo/key foods/c-town in NYC. and they keep forever, and you can use the same ingredients for basically any other kind of baked good. boom, you have bread/biscuits/waffles/cookies/pancakes for a week, instead of buying boxed mix, which usually has all kinds of weird emulsifiers/dough stabilizers/preservatives, etc.
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On Is Whole Foods Really That Much More Expensive?
organic generic items (bulk cheese, bread, beans, tortillas) are going to be cheaper in a store that sells more of them-- hence cheaper generic organics at wholefoods and more expensive organics at safeway. you could always get cheap, non-organic generic stuff at safeway, but organic items at stores that don't sell a lot of them are going to be priced accordingly. also, the markup on brand-name non-perishables (pellegrino, tazo chai tea) is going to be the same pretty much anywhere you go, usually a bit higher at whole foods. one final point-- whole foods' produce prices change pretty dramatically with the seasons, at least in new york, since they do a pretty good job of using local suppliers. hence $6 blueberries in the winter (organic, from chile) and $2 blueberries in the summer (organic, from new jersey). safeway (or bravo, c-town, et al) usually use national distributors, so their stuff is always cheap, almost always from chile or california, and almost always non-organic. (and when they do have organic, it's way overpriced because the distributor takes a big cut). whole foods is sometimes the only way for medium-sized organic farms to get their produce to market, since they can't get in to the huge terminal markets (like Hunts Point, for NYC). so, i guess what i'm saying is, whole foods is cheap for bulk, generic organic products and sometimes for seasonal produce, but it's not worth it to buy brand-name non-perishable stuff there you can find for cheaper at c-town....
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On The Liquor Stores of My Life, Priced Out
What, no BQE Wine & Liquors?