No kidding. We don't have any Trader Joe's in Kansas City. It looks like the Wild Oats I go to every 3 months to buy nutritional yeast will go over to the dark side. I think I step inside a Whole Foods maybe once every two years. You can get the crap they sell for cheaper at all of the better grocery stores around here.
I was pretty pissed that Wild Oats got approval for the takeover. Hate to see a truly evil company get any bigger. Perhaps we can sour the milk by supporting unionization efforts at Whole Foods. A tough task, because the fucking chain runs a serious anti-union campaign.
I hear that their nickname on the street is Whole Paycheck.
Chuck