It's been a real joy to move to a place abounding in local farmers' markets and have a sense of seasonality again. There's no longer a nearby Whole Foods, which I used to go to only to pick up Zak...
It's been a real joy to move to a place abounding in local farmers' markets and have a sense of seasonality again. There's no longer a nearby Whole Foods, which I used to go to only to pick up Zak the Baker (awesome Miami bakery) bread.
But the declining grocery store phenomenon is apparent everywhere, most importantly in "food deserts" where dollar stores and bodegas are the main suppliers, and local agriculture connections are few to non-existent.
The behavioral manipulations described in the article, techniques for getting customers to have emotional connections to stores and increase their shopping time, are a little disturbing. Food has root-level access to so much of our emotional programming that the discussion of Trump country as part of the branding memetics makes my skin crawl.
The Harvest Market, given it's Whole Foods design antecedents, sounds like a theatrical production of farm-to-market ideals. The pessimistic part of my head is waiting to hear about the exploitative and unsustainable downside.
It's been a real joy to move to a place abounding in local farmers' markets and have a sense of seasonality again. There's no longer a nearby Whole Foods, which I used to go to only to pick up Zak the Baker (awesome Miami bakery) bread.
But the declining grocery store phenomenon is apparent everywhere, most importantly in "food deserts" where dollar stores and bodegas are the main suppliers, and local agriculture connections are few to non-existent.
The behavioral manipulations described in the article, techniques for getting customers to have emotional connections to stores and increase their shopping time, are a little disturbing. Food has root-level access to so much of our emotional programming that the discussion of Trump country as part of the branding memetics makes my skin crawl.
The Harvest Market, given it's Whole Foods design antecedents, sounds like a theatrical production of farm-to-market ideals. The pessimistic part of my head is waiting to hear about the exploitative and unsustainable downside.