Whole Foods

I wish they had a bit more vegan products that are also gluten free, but otherwise a good experience. I can get a lot of the things I need there, and it's nice to get extra points for paying with my Amazon card.

Whole foods is a great grocery store and it also has a lot of options for those who have dietary restrictions, such as veganism, kosher, vegetarian, and pescetarian. The food is of high quality and is for the most part natural and organic. While whole foods may be expensive, it doesn't remove the fact that the foods there are of high quality.

I met the founders of Whole Foods before 1990 as they identified my organic farm and desperately wanted me to sell my produce to their about to be built Whole Foods markets. Yes, back then, organic actually meant something to this business. Amazon.com is a Global player, feeding US intelligence with countless private tips on Americans or other customers, which is why Amazon.com is still in business despite making no profits. Amazon.com wanted Whole Foods, so it bought the company. As soon as possible, Amazon.com started making material changes, one of which changes is to obscure and refuse to label goods. Whole Foods promised to label GE and GMO, well that promise is out the window. Amazon.com made money selling goods made by slaves, so any effort to certify that goods were not made by slaves is out the window. The latest change is Amazon's move to be the new Costco. Many people do not realize that Costco sells and mislabels Factory Farm goods, being one of the biggest movers of Factory farm meats. Well, Amazon sees this as profitable and is moving to mislabel Factory Farm meats at Whole Foods. Costco's revenue model is based on membership dues. Costco makes far more money from such dues than from selling goods, so now Amazon is trying to sell its "Prime membership" by posting blue and yellow signs throughout Whole Foods that will give special deals to Prime members. This is the same as membership dues. What does a Prime membership cost now? $100? Get the picture?

I tried to put in a delivery/pick up order from them recently through Amazon. Certain time slots looked available all through the process until it was time to submit payment then, bait & switch, they weren't. I left Amazon & came back only to find the same time slot falsely presented as available. Lots of other flakey behavior around time slots. A 7 - 9 pm slot was supposedly available before noon. Then it was gone, but suddenly an earlier 5 - 7 pm slot was available. I called the store twice about all this. No answer.

Also, Whole Foods reusable shopping bags are not on the Amazon website. You can find them on Whole Foods website. It tries to link you to Amazon to buy them but the link wants you to sign into Amazon which is too annoying and is poor design.