Being within a mile of Whole Foods or Trader Joe's will make your house more valuable

[Babel_17]

37. Yes, some items are cheaper than the prices at all the supermarkets I go to

Organic Valley Cream, even when compared to the Stonyfield "step-sister" brand (they both are part of CROPP*), is cheaper at the Whole Foods by me.

Ditto that, and by a lot of money, for Kerry Gold butter and cheese. The Pete and Gerry Jumbo eggs they carry are cheaper than even the extra large ones the super markets carry. Their frozen (non-organic) vegetables are always a good deal.

They carry an off label brand of Tuna (the regular label is American Tuna Company**) from Alaskan fishers that is a real deal, cheaper than Amazon even. They get some great powdered chocolate from France that's very reasonable. It's Dutch processeded/alkalized, so a bit less nutritional value, but as a treat who really cares that much?

But I smile at their prices for some of their herbals, and powdered nutritional supplements. Amazon Prime ftw with those.

*http://www.cornucopia.org/dairysurvey/index.html

**http://americantuna.com/about/

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/oceans/tuna-guide/

"American Tuna is a San Diego-based company created by six pole and line fishing families. The company offers products under its flagship brand, American Tuna and its Pole & Line brand in Whole Foods Markets, specialty markets, and food service providers across the country. Though a smaller brand, American Tuna is well-known by US eco-conscious shoppers. American Tuna takes its commitment beyond just ensuring ocean safe tuna by including organic ingredients to compliment the tuna, reducing waste by providing albacore offcuts to other fisheries for bait, and ensuring products are packaged in BPA-free cans."

Though it's flagship brand is canned in the USA, at the only tuna cannery left in the USA afaik, while the Pole & Line brand tuna is canned in Viet Nam.