Comments on: New Interbay Whole Foods opens Tuesday

By: robotspider

robotspider — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:53:13 +0000

I thought Fremont was supposed to have all the trolls–not Ballard.

By: robotspider

robotspider — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:46:51 +0000

TL; DR

By: TTTCOTTH

TTTCOTTH — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:22:16 +0000

Damn right

I had to get a visa to get to Interbay. The border crossing was dangerous and the customs agents were nasty.

By: motorrad

motorrad — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:03:29 +0000

You are fueling the 'backfire effect' when you start with facts and just makes them more zealous. Google it if you don't know about it. Hilarious and explains so much.

By: ballardgiant

ballardgiant — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:20:55 +0000

What a surprise!!! Someone with a “clever” acronym of two to the chest one to the head (TTTCOTTH) is a right-wing talking point regurgitator. Who would have guessed?

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:18:02 +0000

I did, Blight. See below. It reads:

"Nope. Still boycotting. But maybe we'll stop by and take up valuable retail and parking space and a cart or two, and to consume lots of any proffered free samples -without actually buying anything, of course. In this town, there are plenty of other options for buying healthy, organic, sustainable groceries, and many of those options are local producers or locally based establishments."

Besides, the play on your name was quite clever, given the calibre of your own comment.

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:13:22 +0000

My bad – I thought they were the same company as Town & Country Market but apparently they are not – one is & and the other is and.

By: sweetrose

sweetrose — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:04:39 +0000

Enough to live in the city they serve. They used to be….you know back when we had an economy that worked.

By: SPG

SPG — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:41:04 +0000

The reason to keep things local is that your money goes further in the big picture. When the profits are sent off to Bentonville Arkansas, that profit is more likely to be spent there. When the profits go to Crown Hill, Bainbridge Island, or even Poulsbo, that profit will go to other businesses in the community and eventually it will come back to benefit you by strengthening the local economy as well as offsetting the taxes you'd otherwise have to pay.

By: Scooter

Scooter — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:59:14 +0000

Just realized that this is a Ballard forum and the damn store isn't even in Ballard. So this truly was just a huge waste of time… more than usual. If you want to drive that far to buy overpriced groceries, nothing I'm going to say here will change your mind. So I'm going to waste my time elsewhere.

By: Scooter

Scooter — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:50:31 +0000

Town and Country is based on Bainbridge Island and they only have a few stores locally between here and the Poulsbo area. They are not a national chain, I just got that from reading the side of the bag. But regardless support them or Met. market, or Ken's market, it doesn't matter. I just feel that supporting local is better. But if you prefer big box retail… by all means.

By: Freddie

Freddie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:14:13 +0000

“yuppie wal-mart”

Yuppies at Walmart?

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:21:28 +0000

Just so you know, Ballard Market is not local. It is a Town & Country Market store – they are a national chain. I haven't looked at their CEO's political affiliations.

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:11:27 +0000

Actually, a few years ago I heard from some friends who worked for Whole Foods in CA that the benefits were awful. They might be better now – I don't know. One of my friends just got a job and is very happy about it.

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:09:25 +0000

I actually own horses so I'm not sure what that makes me – the rich elite or a redneck. We didn't lose much in the economic crash cause we did that weird thing that some of my relatives think is downright stupid – that would be “invest conservatively”. What a strange concept.

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:05:34 +0000

I may not like his politics but I like his dog. That's mean to attack a man's dog. :(

By: Scooter

Scooter — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:54:20 +0000

Maybe you should be shopping at hole foods. There are plenty of people with good grades and degrees working retail right now. If you want to talk about utopian fantasy worlds, look at what your yuppie wal-mart's ceo has to say about health care. If everybody shopped at his stores there would be less need for health care because everyone would be perfect little paragons of wealth and health. Probably true, but that isn't reality.
Please by all means shop at hole foods and enjoy. If you can make it jive with your politics and bank account you should. Meanwhile I will continue to support local businesses and languish in my own little retail hell.

By: Freddie

Freddie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:23:05 +0000

What do you think people who bag groceries should be paid, $100k a year?

WF pays better than other retailers their size and provides better benefits. Not enough for you? Study harder in school. Sadly Maria, you don't seem to understand that we are not all equal, now matter how much of a utopian, fantasy world you want to live in.

By: sweetrose

sweetrose — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:55:07 +0000

Unfortunately you won't be able to afford anything else on the low wages.

By: Freddie

Freddie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:25:14 +0000

Get a job at Whole Foods, they have great benefits.

By: Freddie

Freddie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:23:10 +0000

I know a good way to get good healthcare….get a job at Whole Foods.

By: Freddie

Freddie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:19:39 +0000

Great, it means someone is watching out for my interests.

By: SPG

SPG — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:12:47 +0000

What about lung cancer from carcinogens in industrial exhaust? Should that be okay to treat? Would you like to pay for that?

By: SPG

SPG — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:09:39 +0000

Fail? OMG! LOL!
The reality is that there was essentially zero regulation of the derivatives market and other complex financial instruments. Add to that Gramm's deregulation of the financial services industries that allowed banks to be insurance companies which essentially turned them into veritable casinos, and it was a recipe for economic disaster.
There may be more regulations (pay attention to that last s, since it makes all the difference) but without any real oversight and regulation there will be many more actors figuring ways around the regulations to make risky and often fraudulent financial transactions.
Reagan cut back on the oversight of business.
Clinton allowed it to go further, especially with a republican congress.
Bush went all in and even slashed the budget and enforcement abilities of the SEC.

By: sweetrose

sweetrose — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:36:44 +0000

Where has anyone offered free healthcare? Who has offered it? No one in th world gets free healthcare.

By: Freddie

Freddie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:27:11 +0000

"Yes in fact they should"

Really? Where in the constitution does it say that?

"However stupid americans prefer to buy overpriced pretty food and let people go hungry. "

Last time I offered a bum a sandwich instead of the dollar he wanted he went bizerk.

By: shutuplosers

shutuplosers — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:09:26 +0000

Should everyone be entitled to a free computer and internet access so they can join in on this stupid conversation. Should smokers and obese people have free health care. I don't really want to pay for anyone's preventable lung cancer treatment.

By: Name

Name — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:52:39 +0000

Naive. Both parties are in bed with Wall Street. To ignore that fact is just blind partisianship.

By: Name

Name — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:48:23 +0000

Fail. There is more regulation now then there was in the early 80's.

By: SeaSpider

SeaSpider — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:24:15 +0000

Yep, American Exceptionalism is a beast. For some reason it just kills people in this country to have to admit that another country might actually do something better than us!

BTW, I wonder how many people who complain about socialist Europe realize that some parts of Europe are more capitalist/free market than the US. For example, in some Nordic countries many of the fire departments are operated by private companies instead of the government. In France doctors are more likely to work in private practice than in the US. Many government subsidized airlines out perform private US brands. But heaven forbid we try to learn from anyone else! ;)