AUDIO: WHOLE FOODS IS DRASTICALLY OVERCHARGING CUSTOMERS
New York City’s Department of Consumer Affairs said Wednesday that an ongoing investigation of Whole Foods Market stores has found systemic overcharging of its customers for prepackaged food priced by weight. The overcharges ranged from 80 cents for a package of pecan panko to $14.84 for a package of coconut shrimp. Inspectors say it’s the worst case of mislabeling they have seen in their careers. In its investigation, the DCA said it tested 80 different package types and found they all had mislabeled weights. The overcharges were especially prevalent in packages that had been labeled with exactly the same weight when it would be practically impossible for all of the packages to weigh the same amount. These products included nuts and other snack products, like flavored almonds, pecan panko and corn nuts, berries, vegetables, and seafood.
* I guess the Whole Foods executives should be getting ready for some prison food.
* Nah – they’ll blame it on the minimum wage stock workers who print out the price stickers.
* Mislabeled weights? Maybe they’re pricing according to what the food would weigh on Jupiter.
* Or the stores are experiencing “gravitational anomalies” like always used to happen on the Star Trek shows.
* “We apologize, but it appears most of our retail locations are positioned directly over small black holes.”
* Anybody out there have any more “gravity” jokes? Let’s open the phones.
* I’d probably be more upset about the pecan panko if I knew what it was.
* Pecan panko and coconut shrimp? Sounds like Whole Foods stuff, all right.
* Of course, these prices were balanced out by all the foods Whole Food undercharged for, right?
* I mean that’s what an honest mistake would look like.
* Want to have some fun? Next time you go to Whole Foods, take along a scale, weigh your items, and show the results to the store manager.
* Oh, and have a reporter along.
CLIP: Our classic A-Hole Foods parody spot.
