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]
“Oh for goodness sake. It’s just a damned store. Get over yourself.”
Worth repeating.
I love how an article that tries to reflect negatively on Whole Foods ends up only exposing the insufferability of the quintessential Park Sloper.
“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.”
Oh for goodness sake. It’s just a damned store. Get over yourself.
“Novelist Amy Sohn, a co-op member and Brown alumna who grew up in Brooklyn Heights”
i can’t even begin to express my hatred for this privileged NIMBY c*nt….but someone should inform her that A coming from BH she knows nothing about “mall of america experience” and the B Whole Foods was started in Austin and then first spread to Houston, Dallas and New Orleans before moving nationwide….so why doesn’t it fit into brooklyn?
This is much ado about nothing. Those who belong to the coop will obviously just continue to go there. They have to work a coop shift after all.
Most people probably don’t care one way or the other about it.
Its unbelievable cant I just buy some squash without it being a political statement one way or another?????
(And I know that Whole Foods is not known for their fair labor… but still, I’m curious.)
Bite me, Amy Sohn.
Sorry, I’m trying to think of something more articulate, but that’s all that comes to mind — and I am not even a fan of Whole Foods.
There’s a certain eternal thing among a certain type of New Yorker, where being “in the know” and going to whatever particular thing is fashionable is really, really important. These days, it’s all about the “responsible” shopping. Never mind that most of that is utter bull. If one is a certain demographic, one must love the coop and sneer at Whole Foods.
It would be interesting to see a comparison though, of what the PS Food Coop pays its workers vs. what Whole Foods will.
Anything on this site will be an improvement. If you don’t like Whole Foods, don’t go there.
I personally would like to see either the red brick building re-habed or razed and the rest of the land there near the canal to be natural wilderness, something the area of Gowanus could really use.