Wild Oats sale to Whole Foods goes through

Well, at least you're back to calling me by my first name, so there's some progress.

But no, seriously, I don't know at all what you mean.

Well, at least you're back to calling me by my first name, so there's some progress.

But no, seriously, I don't know at all what you mean.

One more time, Stuart Yaniger...

You said that you shop at WM for the everyday stuff like Clorox. For the real stuff you go elsewhere.

I'm saying that by going elsewhere for the "important" stuff you acknowledge the limitations, if not the failure, of the WM business model of mediocrity.

Yet, by buying anything at WM, anything such as the Clorox, you add to WM's profits. By supporting the store with profits, you wind up rewarding WM for its mediocrity--in the eyes of the bookkeepers or management, that is.

The alternative to supporting WM's mediocrity is to not spend any money in its store, which is my action, feeble as it may be, since they seem to have taken over the American psyche.

If that doesn't seem clear enough for you, one of us has to give back his Mensa card, and since I don't own one, you're it!!!

Oh, and to get this thread back to where it began, let me say emphatically: Whole Foods!

I'm more confused than ever, I'm afraid.

First, let me say the obligatory "I hate Whole Foods and avoid shopping there whenever possible."

Whew. OK, that out of the way, your argument now seems to be that Walmart is "mediocre" because their specialty is commodities at high volume, not artisinal goods and other kinds of products which demand a lot of overhead to stock and sell?

Go home, Stewart. The lights are out!

I'm more confused than ever, I'm afraid.

First, let me say the obligatory "I hate Whole Foods and avoid shopping there whenever possible."

Whew. OK, that out of the way, your argument now seems to be that Walmart is "mediocre" because their specialty is commodities at high volume, not artisinal goods and other kinds of products which demand a lot of overhead to stock and sell?

In case you haven't noticed, Jo Ann no longer thinks I am a formidable debater. Must have something to do with the fact that she answers no questions, preferring to generalize, and she makes no commitments to her arguments, preferring again to generalize, and then she turns lights out on others, which of course also darkens her space.

How am I doing now, Jo Ann???

Stuart, if you go back to my original post, you'll see that I listed why I don't like WM (and other big store chains). You commented on only one in my list, and distorted it too.

With the list I called the business model a spiral down the ladder of civilization, an admitted hyperbole but a way to say that I think that mediocrity is the message of these places, played out by way of poor service, low quality products (ok, not the goddam Clorox), and the overall inhumanity of the stores. That is how I feel about them.

My decision isn't knee-jerk political--which I've said before, but others on the bb don't seem either to read or to believe--my decision isn't visceral either. I have shopped in them at least once, twice in some. In almost every case, my shopping experience was depressing. That's enough for me to make a decision.