{"id":13210,"date":"2017-04-29T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=13210"},"modified":"2017-04-29T12:30:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T16:30:53","slug":"hard-times-for-whole-foods-people-say-its-for-pretentious-people-i-can-see-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/hard-times-for-whole-foods-people-say-its-for-pretentious-people-i-can-see-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard times for Whole Foods: &#8216;People say it&#8217;s for pretentious people. I can see why&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Look. When you can buy a gallon of milk for less than $4 virtually everywhere else, and Whole Foods wants $7.50 because they&#8217;ve managed to paste the &#8220;Organic&#8221; or &#8220;No GMO&#8221; label on it&#8230;Yeah, you&#8217;re catering to the pretentious. Organic, healthy, safe and wholesome should be the NORM, not a premium upgrade. Fuck You, for trying to make us pay MORE for what you should be delivering under the implied contract you are bound by: you&#8217;re selling nutrition, the product should actually be healthy, safe, and affordable. There are stores like Trader Joe&#8217;s and Aldi that give you organic and wholesome for LESS than Kroger. No wonder Whole Foods is in the shitter&#8230;I say good riddance when you fail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2oJfopW\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2oJfopW<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look. When you can buy a gallon of milk for less than $4 virtually everywhere else, and Whole Foods wants $7.50 because they&#8217;ve managed to paste the &#8220;Organic&#8221; or &#8220;No GMO&#8221; label on it&#8230;Yeah, you&#8217;re catering to the pretentious. Organic, healthy, safe and wholesome should be the NORM, not a premium upgrade. Fuck You, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-13210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12878,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/organic-farming-facts-and-fiction\/","url_meta":{"origin":13210,"position":0},"title":"Organic farming: facts and fiction","date":"March 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Maybe, but we know it's not worse. 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