How Many Walmart Groceries Would Be Banned at Whole Foods?

I thought the article was kinda dumb. Yes, WalMart sells lots of things that wouldn't make it onto the shelves at Whole Foods. BUT, Wal Mart also sells plenty of stuff carried at Whole Foods, like Kashi cereals, granola, & bars, FAGE yogurts (25 cents a piece cheaper for the single-serve container), Sugar in the Raw and a variety of stevia & natural sugar options, lactose free milk and alternative nut & soy milks, organic produce, etc. Prices are generally far below Whole Foods on equivalent offerings.

The pics show the bakery aisle as empty, but if you bother to walk over to the bakery section of a WalMart supercenter, you'll find the store's line of "marketplace" breads: most are made without added sugar or dough conditioners. Ciabatta rolls & buns, whole grain loaves & rolls, etc.

If you want to avoid WalMart b/c of its labor practices or some other criteria, go ahead. But it is factually incorrect to say that a shopper can't find quasi-healthy or health-marketed brands at WalMart or products not filled with crap. I choose to spend a portion of my grocery/tax dollars within my parish, and that means WalMart is the better option for organics & certain brands.

I'm a little surprised Slate didn't include a nod to the thinly veiled racism implicit in the WF business model.

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Not to mention the Uptown Whole Foods parking garage is the seventh circle of hell

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Understatement....

I only go if I can walk.

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Of course, it’s important to remember that, while Whole Foods has attached a stigma to the ingredients it’s declared “unacceptable,” all of these ingredients are approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Whole Foods doesn’t offer much of an explanation on its website for why it has banned these ingredients.

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Even for Slate this is idiotic. Because the FDA hasn't banned them they must be ok? We all know how credible and immune from industry lobbying the FDA is.

Whole Foods is providing foods without those ingredients because there is a health-conscious market for them, ie people who know the FDA doesn't do its job and want purer ingredients.

Then again, the lefty at Slate who wrote this doubtlessly puts their blind faith into government agencies like the FDA so the thought of them not doing their job is inconceivable to them.

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Yes, much better to put your blind faith in the marketing dep't of Whole Foods.

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yes, actually it is significantly better

Just went and stopped in the Wal Mart on Tchoups. Wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be, but I don't see myself ever making groceries there. I did buy a few things while there. Some bike lights, those felt things you put under furniture, a beta fish, bottle of whiskey, and a bag of beef jerky.

I pretty much keep my walmart shopping for things like windex, paper towels, and shampoo. Meat and produce is usually bought at Kroger. Whole Foods opened in Jackson last week, and it was insane in there. I guess I will wait another week before going back to grocery shop.