On Apr 18, 12:36�am, 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 just have this thing about Whole Foods prices. *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.
>
> -sw

My favorite market in Austin, is Central Market. I often stop and shop
on my way home from class. A few weeks ago they had strange looking
tomatoes, they were the heirloom tomatoes, great tasting, but sort of
unusual looking. I bought three.. 11.98 for three of them ( 5.98 a
pound )

Ordered some seeds and will grow them from now, on, but I am told they
were delicious and well worth the high price.

Rosie