Clodfobble's Whole Foods store.
As Texas as it get's... DUI with a cart. :haha:
I want to enjoy a beer while I shop!
Funny article in Reader's Digest concerning Whole Foods:
http://www.rd.com/funny-stuff/surviving-whole-foods/
Next I approach the beauty aisle. There is a scary-looking machine there that you put your face inside of, and it tells you exactly how ugly you are. It calculates your wrinkles, your sunspots, the size of your pores, etc., and compares the results with those of other women your age. I think of myself as attractive, but as it turns out, I am 78 percent ugly, meaning less pretty than 78 percent of women in the world. On the popular “one to ten” hotness scale used by males the world over, that makes me a three (if you round up, which I hope you will).
I grab a handful of peanut butter pretzels on my way out of this stupid aisle. I don’t feel bad about pilfering these bites, because of the umpteen times I’ve overpaid at the salad bar and been tricked into buying $108 beauty creams. The pretzels are very fattening, but I’m already in the 70th percentile of ugly, so who cares?
78% ugly. :lol:
It's like those convex magnifying mirrors. Never make the mistake of looking into one.
Our customers get a free tea or coffee (although most grab it on the way out).
Glad it's not beer. Clean up in Aisle Nine anyone?
Why, did clod pee on the floor again?
Is that from the downtown location, or the one in the Domain? Both are swanky, even for a Whole Foods. I've never noticed the free beer, but I have seen the "take a free piece of fruit for your kid" bin many times. Maybe they rotate?
It's in Texas, I just used your name to get more "Likes". :blush:
This one is Austin.
if it's free, I'll have two.
They spend no more on the half-dozen beers than any grocery store spends on various other "free sample" tables. And they don't even have to waste a staffer on it.
The sign says 99 cents? Where's everyone getting 'free' from?
Oops, I was probably the first to make the "free" connection, because of our free walking around beverages.
And because I was wishing so hard that it was true...
The first picture Bruce posted is the one with the free beer. It's possible there's a big price sign just out of shot, but I know they give away free pieces of organic fruit in an almost identical cooler. At their prices a piece of fruit is almost the same cost as a can of beer.
Ahh, I see. The 99 cent beers look like PBR and the like. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) The freebies look more like specialty beers they would like to sell more of. That makes sense.
I can't imagine giving away free beer here in Ohio, but I don't know: the nearest Whole Foods are either Columbus or Cincinnati. I'd like to check one out, sounds like an interesting place.
You haven't been to a whole foods? Well now I know where to take you when you get up here! :lol:
Just opened a whole foods in MS. Bet no free beer there.
I've not been, yet as it's in north Jackson.
There's a
Rural King (home and farm supplies) store a couple counties over that gives out free popcorn and coffee.
Free popcorn would slay me.
Supermarkets already make me thirsty, to the extent that when I lived alone I would have to chug a can of soft drink before going in. Otherwise I'd end up with 15 types of fruit juice and no liver sausage.
Popcorn is considered a healthy diet food by some here (it's usually salted, not sugar coated). And "whole grain" :)
Many stores here do free coffee. tastes like crap though.
Not sure many states allow you to give away alcohol. NY doesn't allow it, and has restrictions on 2 for 1 and "all you can drink" specials.
The mimosa brunch has been hobbled.
In Virginia, I've seen wine samples given out, at both wineries and grocery stores, but I've never seen anything like those free beers. And there was always a server dispensing just a couple sips. No self serve.
Well, I was at Kroger today and they had a wine-tasting. It was just some guy giving out little cups of a couple types of wine, and there was a plate of cheese and crackers. The cheese and crackers almost pulled me in. So I guess you can do that sort of thing in Ohio.
He got some big guy to taste a wine. I would have, also, except I would have stood there for a couple hours, eventually demanding "more wine, shir, I thaid I want more wine! WHAT?"