Whole Foods Vs. Food Coop
Today the Observer runs a story on the impending arrival of Whole Foods and its possible threat to the Park Slope Food Coop. “Whole Foods is more of an ideological challenge to the Park Slope Food Coop, the headquarters of arch-Park Slope living, than it is a threat to business,” states the article, which points…
Today the Observer runs a story on the impending arrival of Whole Foods and its possible threat to the Park Slope Food Coop. “Whole Foods is more of an ideological challenge to the Park Slope Food Coop, the headquarters of arch-Park Slope living, than it is a threat to business,” states the article, which points out the the Coop has a higher profit margin than Whole Foods. Writer and Park Slope resident Amy Sohn vowed not to make the switch from the Coop to Whole Foods, but hoped the Coop members “who wind up on the blacklist” would. She says the people who will enjoy the Whole Foods most “Want to replicate their sort of Mall of America experience in New York City, so they love that you can have a Whole Foods in Brooklyn.” Like it or not, the site will be built: the article reveals an Austin-based construction company will begin work 2011 and will open the store late 2012.
Whole Prudes: Austin Comes to Gowanus [Observer]
BrowstonerButtBoy,
I don’t need to brag about my property ownership, my vocabulary, or my race to puff up my ego.
You know the coop is very accepting of your people (though by that I don’t mean republicans).
Some of my favorite lines from the article:
“When you said Third Avenue and Third Street, I thought Manhattan”
“Mr. Shteyngart moved to Park Slope when he was working on his first book, and he expected it to be “edgy.”
“the most important variable in selecting a new site for stores is the number of college-educated people living within a 16-minute drive. Hello, Park Slope!”
“Mr. Yellin described Whole Foods as a “weird art installation, a postmodern clusterfuck of like 55 kinds of the same kind of granola and 55 kinds of the same kind of chocolate.”
“I feel like it’s sort of a Texas of Brooklyn.”
And Clyde, you give black men a bad name by the shear lack of originality to your humor.
oh i didnt know she was pro co-op. the co=-op and whole foods are equally as lame and the people who shop at both seem very similar to me.
*rob*
[BrownstonerButtBoy, ever so proud of his vocabulary, brags that he can use the word misanthrope without even looking it up on Wikipedia]
I haven’t read the comments yet but:
1. Is Amy Sohn that much of a vapid, empty-headed twat?
2. Yay Whole Foods!!!
i agree with amy sohn.
whole foods overpriced and way too fetished. she is right. i think she’s funny.
*rob*
Isn’t the Co-Op owned by Barneys? Hardly cheap. I had no idea it was run by volunteers or even sold fruit.
Anagram Generator:
Amy Sohn = Nosy Ham