Alaska Wild Caught Salmon at $27.99 a pound.

Of course other retailers seem to soak the fish in something that makes it
swell and hold more water, adding weight. Or maybe I'm just paranoid
about that off-white milky runoff before the fish is cooked - and shrinks
down to 1/3 its original size.

they have forced so much extra water into it.

Costco frozen fish is really the best, processed and vacuum packed on the boats, no water added. There are just a few dribbles of water out of the package when you open it, normal for cell breakdown during freezing. If you're a fish eater in a land locked state, this is the only way to go.

You may be interested to know that salmon that is "Wild Caught" means this:

Fish is caught.
Fish is frozen.
Fish is shipped to China.
Fish is thawed and filletted
Fish is re-frozen
Fish is shipped back to the US
Fish is sold as either frozen or thawed.

BUT IT'S WILD CAUGHT!!11!1!

Here's one of dozens of stories about this practice:

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/nw-salmon-sent-to-china-before-reaching-us-tables/

empty the nets, 'by-catch', trash fish, sharks and all, into a freezer box.

those slaves will sort through and pack everything, nothing is wasted even bits and bones, seals and dolphins? sea birds, and whale carcass can grind up and go in the pet food piles.

Even an industry built up around those jumping carp infesting Americas fresh water and spent laying hens in the million hen factory farms. They stuff those in a ship-box alive, flash freeze them and let the slave workers process into 'foods'.

..... Whole Foods is a scam.


* that is not say that organic production of food is not better for the environment and
that some traditionally grown produce, dairy, meat, and other things might have some
chemical contamination but a carrot is a carrot.

https://www.change.org/p/monsanto-pay-pro-gmo-advocates-and-defenders

n/t

pesticide or herbicide residues is not "woo". It's about science and trust in commercial entities.

..... and they found no difference at all between the two.

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

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No...if it only happened once or twice, that's an accident. When it is happening regularly, that is from top/down management practices.

Whole foods isn't the only one to do it. I see so many things wrong with the way meat is packaged in those Styrofoam trays, where extra skin and fat on chicken pieces are hidden underneath, so you can't see what you are paying for, and so much water in the package that if you poke a hole in the plastic it will leave a trail on the floor all the way up to the cash register.

I've never purchased any prepared fruit or veggie trays, so I don't know how often they are mis-weighed, but when I buy cauliflower, it's wrapped in cellophane and half of it is greens and stalk, not flowerettes. Cauliflower is very good for you, but I rarely buy it because I feel so ripped off every time I do.

I do wish I knew if I could trust my kitchen scale. I might have to break down and get a digital one. I often notice that what I weigh at home does not match the package weight.

Oh, and don't get me started on styro packs and plasticized butcher paper, instead of waxed paper.

... he's just counting on people not to report this kind of thing.

Are we supposed to carry our own little calibrated scales with us?

Production is already ramping up.

if you might have been cheated by our methods but rest assured we'll give you pennies on the dollar for what you were cheated out of.

This has turned into the United States of Fraudulent Enterprise.

At least when organized crime was up front and in our faces we knew what was going on. Now, organized crime wears nicer suits and goes on teevee to apologize.

They should have their hands cut off to signify they are thieves.

Ever noticed the lack of RICO prosecutions in the past 30 years?

The food's good, but dang, it costs.

I bet this does serious damage and they may have to sell the company and change their name.

I feel sorry for the clerks who work there. Not the bosses, just the people at the stores who earn hourly wages.

Just curious.

Packaged foods had incorrect weights on their labels, so you might be charged the price for 5 lbs of an item but there was really only 4lbs of it in the package. Per the article there were many many incidents of this and it was almost always in favor of WF.

or if it was food packaged by suppliers. Either way, they have a big problem with their quality control, and that's something that WFM prides itself on. I worked for them for 5.5 years at their distribution center in Austin. If it was an issue with a supplier, it should have been caught at the distribution center for that region. We had a couple of guys who did QC fulltime, weighing packaged products, checking the quality if the contents, checking "sell by" dates, etc. Often we got the rejects, whether it was produce that was a bit too ripe, flowers that were too open or refrigerated goods that didn't have enough shelf life.

How many times do they get to say they're sorry? And for a company whose nickname is Whole Paycheck?

This guy is such a jerk. This also happened in California a couple of years ago, before that he had to retract his statement that 'Obamacare' is fascism, before that he was caught trolling message boards trying to bring Wild Oats stock prices down when he was trying to buy out WO. He seems to be ethically challenged in a big way. Wish I had Wild Oats back!

Many of their stores were too small to be competitive. They hadn't been profitable for years before WFM bought them. But you are correct. What Mackey did was unethical.

across from the Lamborgini dealer and next door to the Porsche dealer. .A true food botique for the beautiful people .

He travels some opening new stores and can't imagine something so stupid.

I remember going to a WF one near my job to grab some produce; I went ahead to the health area and got a small bottle of tea tree oil - $15! D: I got it because I was too lazy to go to another store and paid for it along with apples, bananas, an avocado and some sweet potatoes. All of which came to a grand total of nearly $40 for just produce and a thing of oil (they had a small plastic bowl of cut fruits they were selling for $7, I'm not paying that!). :/

Turns out I could have gotten tea tree oil with a known brand name for 3 dollars cheaper at a local health foods store. Guess where I buy my oils now? Not at Whole Foods.

We shopped there a bit after it first opened, and it is a very nice market with very high prices.

Great stuff.

We found many much cheaper alternatives. Trader Joes, the poor man's gourmet store. Costco for some foods. Almost anywhere for cheaper fresh produce, including farmer's markets, CSAs, and now a local Asian supermarket.

The ownership is Asian, but it is a multicultural market, with aisles devoted to Indian foodstuffs, Hispanic items, etc. We eat a lot of homemade hummus, and this market has 9 kinds of tahini, all infinitely better than locally packaged brands.

Whole Foods is for lazy rich people.