Medford Whole Foods bird house?

[m00n.livejournal.com]

Has anyone else noticed that the new(ish) Whole Foods on the Mystic Valley Parkway in Medford has a tiny, wooden bird house attached to the rafters over the bulk display?

What's with that?

I probably would never have noticed except that I went in there today and there was a little sparrow flying around while I was buying my groceries.

Comments

[aki.livejournal.com]

Simple: Carrying local foods are more expensive. Goes hand in hand with the complaints about Whole Foods, really.

(I don't know this as a fact, feel free to point out that I am wrong, but it certainly *seems* to be true, even within WF)

[m00n.livejournal.com]

So what that basically says is that cost is the *only* determining factor in deciding whether or not the regular grocery stores will carry something.

How depressing. Kind of makes you wonder why they bother carrying anything that's not store brand at all.

[somertricky.livejournal.com]

Don't get me started on store brands - Shaw's has been squeezing out products for years. I thought they were the worst offender by far, but yesterday I couldn't find a bottle of RealLemon at Stop & Shop.

Which may have had something to do with the game (there were three bottles of caffeine-free Diet Coke mid-afternoon - the only Coke products left in the entire store), but I didn't see a label on the shelf for RealLemon. Major suck.