"Steve Wertz" > wrote

> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:55:49 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> "Steve Wertz" > wrote
>
>>> The same salad would be 1/5th the price when you make it at home.
>>> Whole Foods here would have charged $8/lb for that salad. The
>>> individual vegetables would have been ~$1.40/lb at a regular
>>> supermarket.
>>
>> Well, I bought .8lb. To make it I would have had to buy
>> 1 cucumber, 1 red onion, 1 yellow pepper, a container of grape
>> tomatoes. Parsley. Could I have bought all that for $6.40?
>> Maybe.
>
> $5.50 for all that here in Austin. But it would have made about
> 2.5-3lbs worth, with tomatoes and parsley to spare.

I was on the opposite side of the store, and there was the salad.

> I just have this thing about Whole Foods prices.

I can understand that. I shop there for a few specific items.
Once I got a container of chili, that cost. But it's not like they
sprung it on me, the prices are listed right there.

> Here in Austin
> the prices are astronomical (probably to make up for all the
> half-price and free food they provide for their 5 floors of
> bloated corporate offices above their store). Half the people
> that eat and shop there are employees, it seems.

You said that before, that the prices are even higher at the flagship
store. Can't imagine why they'd do that.

nancy