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thats the key by my 2 cents (2.00 / 0) #26 Thu Nov 15, 2007 at 02:04:55 PM EST

"expensive food," it just doesn't sell.

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It does. by blixco (2.00 / 0) #28 Thu Nov 15, 2007 at 02:21:56 PM EST

see Whole Foods stores as an example of just how well it sells.
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no kidding by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #34 Thu Nov 15, 2007 at 07:48:32 PM EST

my sister works for Whole Foods, and gets a 20% discount. she says with the discount, her grocery bill is now the same price as regular stores.

i've noticed that WF sells the same crap HEB does for quite a bit more. i suppose it's how they pay their stockholders.

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: ok then by my 2 cents (2.00 / 0) #42 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 12:41:27 PM EST

theres probably just no demand for accurate food labelling.

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Here in San Francisco: by fluffy (4.00 / 1) #43 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 01:18:25 PM EST

I live right next to Whole Foods so I do most of my grocery shopping there. It seems expensive at first blush, but now and then I go to the Safeway (half a mile away) and everything there is just as expensive. Some things are even more expensive there.
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IAWTP by R343L (4.00 / 1) #45 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 01:55:28 PM EST

The only thing that is really different in price are produce .. but Whole Foods produce is lightyears better than Safeway's. Though really I should go to the farmer's market more often (tomorrow!) I pretty much don't shop at Safeway hardly at all (except late night runs when I have messed up in planning) even though both are equally convenient for me.

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Oddly enough: by fluffy (2.00 / 0) #46 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 02:12:31 PM EST

The produce at the SoMa Safeway is often MORE expensive than at Whole Foods. For example, at Whole Foods, an organic lemon is 70 cents (jesus crap that's a lot for a lemon), but at Safeway it's $1.69 (!!).
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That Safeway by blixco (2.00 / 0) #47 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 02:39:13 PM EST

us a strange one. My brother worked as a butcher there for a couple of weeks. They're apparently almost entirely separate from Safeway Corp. Different buyers, different reps.
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: Well that doesn't change the fact by fluffy (4.00 / 1) #48 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 02:48:04 PM EST

that it's the only alternative to Whole Foods in walking distance of my apartment, and more expensive.
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it does to me by alprazolam (2.00 / 0) #32 Thu Nov 15, 2007 at 06:34:37 PM EST

i just bought a $7 loaf of bread last weekend, $11 pound and a half of chicken, and i'll buy a $10-$12 bag of coffee this weekend.

there's a place for cheap food and for real food. i still buy diet mt. dew and pretty highly processed beef jerky. at the same time, i'll generally only buy non hormone/antibiotic chicken, 80% wild caught fish, and i support local growers at the local organic/farmer's markets and "specialty" stores.

i'm about a third of the way through Omnivore's Dilemma, it's pretty readable.

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$7 loaf of bread? by StackyMcRacky (4.00 / 1) #35 Thu Nov 15, 2007 at 07:50:36 PM EST

hell, i'll bake bread for you if that's what you're willing to pay for it!

(clock and i make all our own breads - it's the best way to make sure nothing nasty is put in)

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Hmm, by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #37 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 06:52:56 AM EST

I've got 2 £2.50 400g loaves of bread in my shopping basket now (and a long wait at the till). I guess alprazolam's are twice the size of mine, so I win the expensive bread contest.

But given that these are wheat and gluten free, cellulose gum free and low fibre, they are the only option for me. And a godsend, quite frankly.

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pricey by Merekat (2.00 / 0) #38 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 08:15:09 AM EST

Do you get to claim any of the cost back via the NHS or tax rebates? Coeliacs in Ireland can.

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: Not as such. by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #40 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 09:47:48 AM EST

I'm not actually coeliac (I was biopsied for whatever reaction it was when I was 14), but if you are, then you get bread and baking mixes on prescription. As prescriptions are available at a capped price of just under £100 a year, that's not too bad a price at all. I do have up to 800 Calories a day of supplements I can take as required which are prescribed though, so it does even out in terms of value I get from the government.
And calorie for calorie, this bread's much cheaper than rice cakes.

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also... by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #36 Thu Nov 15, 2007 at 07:51:50 PM EST

you could buy pasture-fed whole chickens for what you're paying for a pound and a half.

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: eh by alprazolam (2.00 / 0) #39 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 09:05:55 AM EST

i'm not really willing to do pre arrangements and drive any further than an hour. i just go and buy one or two things that i know i'll eat. the cost isn't that big of a concern to me really although i don't buy stuff this expensive all the time. more like i'm willing to spend extra to try it out occasionally.

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