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Intro- 0:00
What are gourmet/luxury grocery stores?- 1:18
Why are they so popular?- 3:52
The “Health Halo Effect”- 5:32
When it matters…and when it doesn’t- 10:22
Accessibility, Health, & Food Equity- 17:55
Closing thoughts- 18:55
Outro & Onyx being the cutest- 19:11
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Video sources: (linked here and/or on screen)
https://ship.erewhon.com/pages/about
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/most-americans-dont-eat-enough-fruits-and-veggies
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024043196#sec5
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7019963/#sec5-nutrients-12-00007
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/organic-food-no-more-nutritious-than-conventionally-grown-food-201209055264
https://columbiasurgery.org/news/2015/11/11/who-should-avoid-gluten
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46 Comments
Yeah, there are versions of this nightmare here in Egypt.
Devil’s advocate: when talking about people who chose gluten free without a medical sensitivity/intolerance instead of taking from those who legitimately cannot eat gluten actually help them buy putting more demand out there and more options as it creates a bigger market worth investing in from a company stand point?
2:20 I'd call sprouts a boutique grocery store
I hope you end up going to meadow lane! I want to see what's it's all about but I'm very unlikely to be in new york ant time soon
How is it 8 hours after posting and I'm barely seeing this 😢
We just go to regular-ass grocery stores. Around here (MD just north of DC) that means Giant and Safeway, supplemented with the occasional Costco run. There's a farmer's market by our house that we've been meaning to check out, but haven't yet.
i'll just ask chatgpt to generate the script for me. why'd i waste my time listening to you read an ai script to me? i read much faster than this video. thanks for the disclosure and transparency
My stepson's mom told him she had to start sending food with him to our house because we didn't eat "organic" food. I cook from scratch most of the time with balanced meals. She sent "organic" chewy granola bars and cereal. She had him convinced that was healthier than my non-organic produce. Stepmom life is not for the weak.
I love me a regular grocery store. Being a city dweller my entire adult life (I'm 44), I have mostly shopped at high end, bougie, expensive, speciality grocery stores/markets because that is what there is. I got a car last year and OMG going to an Acme in the suburbs is the best. Just, like, regular groceries. None of this curated, organic, pesticide free, preservative free, all the halo marketing terms. These luxury markets are just the slightly more expensive, but influencer ready version of all the other similar markets that exist in NYC. $14 for Driscoll's organic strawberries is not weird in NYC. I guess my point is, as someone who has only shopped at places like this, I find a regular grocery store exciting AF.
Really disappointed that you used ChatGPT for the outline for this script. ChatGPT is killing the environment as well as causing significant damage to people's thinking skills. You're better than that Briannah 🙁 what's the point in watching your video for your expertise when chatGPT did the outline? Your brain power didn't go into it and that, unfortunately, makes this video completely worthless to me.
I appreciate the honesty and disclosure but I never thought someone as brilliant as you would even consider using chatGPT to make a video that's supposed to be based on your expertise. Now I will always worry that you and others are using AI to make your content.
Honestly I shop at Aldi and the midwestern classic Meijer. However there is a local higher end grocery store near me that I wanna start shopping at more. I wouldn’t says it’s gourmet though….
I dunno, I feel like fluten free dino nuggets a pretty aestheric to me.
Is trader Joe's gourmet? Sometimes I go there for fun items. Not my usual groceries.
Weird. I get sweetest batch blueberries at Wegmans for $6.99 🤔
Whole Foods does look like Walmart, though, if they've both done a good job of it, anyway, and if they have, it's worth using both because they've each got some great things the other doesn't. But I suppose you're right, they don't really give you an experience. You have to go to the luxury Sprouts for that. Or if you want a more thriller sort of experience, maybe the other Sprouts. The other Sprouts, that was basically my introduction to the walmart sterotype, except not at a walmart, because our walmart was way too upscale for that. That Sprouts. I don't go to that Sprouts.
So there I am, attending bougie erewhon-style luxury Sprouts to load up a shopping cart with the cheapo fruit of the month, amidst soft lighting and soothing music that almost blends into nothing, and… yeah, I don't really care about that, I'm just there because the other one scares me, okay?
For $20 at harvest time we get the most amazing strawberries by the bucket full 😂 they are amazing. I typically shop at my regular grocery store and by Driscoll for like $6 . Not as good as when we pick them, but for the money, I'm fine with that😂
Happy New Year!
Your assessment of Sprouts is spot on.
I used to hate WinCo and would spend more at Raley's because I knew where everything was and they had great service (before Kroger bought out Raley's and the service went down). We have a new WinCo near us and I love them now. I can get most of the brands I want, decent produce for the area I live in, and everything is cheaper than the other grocery stores in my area. I also shop at Costco. Between these two stores I can get pretty much everything I want unless I need something special. They have a pretty robust bulk bin aisle too.
Why wasn’t Anna Delvy deported and banned from re-entry after scamming US citizens??
ICE is going after everyday people, and she’s traipsing around without a care in the world. 😡
Yay!!! Love your videos whenever they happen!!! Also the dog tax at the end is always perfection.
Onyx is the cutest goodboi ever. Please pass on more cuddles by proxy!
The difference between the leggins and the luxury supermarket foods is that one is a functional clothing item and the other are groceries.
There is also a difference between splurging on something special (like a bottle of your favorite liquor, handmade chocolate pralines, etc.) to enjoy on occasion or spending more money on groceries where you could have gotten the same or only marginally less good quality for a fraction of the price.
The leggins last you longer if they are better quality. The food that is eaten is gone either way.
Onyx!! Don't be shy, sweet boy.
living in a rural area, the only access we have is WalMart and Piggly Wiggly.
If they removed the super processed foods the stores would fit in 2000 sq ft footprint. While I would LOVE to shop at a Trader Joe’s, the closest one is 3 & half hours away. Sigh…I would love to have more choices.
Don’t jump scare me like that with the start of that intro omg.
Love the earrings though!❤
I am an Aldi girly thru and thru. Berries can be hit or miss but if you go on shelf restock day, I’ve never had any issue with their produce or meat. Occasionally in the summer I’ll hit up a farmers market as we have a lot of them here in NY but I’ve never even stepped foot in a Whole Foods. No reason to. Wegmans gets it’s done for the fancier ingredients I need at a fraction of the cost
Chiming in from Philadelphia: if having a bouncer outside your grocery store means luxury, boy are living the high life over here!
I believe there was a boycott against Driscoll's a few years ago because they treated their employees horribly. I don't know if that's changed.
P.S, LOVE the earrings! 🥰
the whole gluten free thing is something else. I'm not gluten free, and I have one friend who actually is celiac and a girl I used to babysit is now gluten free because of other health issues and this seems to be the only thing that's helping more or less eliminate her pain- she also has 4 young children. she's been very helpful in helping me find the best options to purchase items for group events to ensure they can enjoy a night out.
the interesting thing is I can tell when people come into my place of work and ask for the ingredients list on an item, which isn't a problem I'll show you. depending on the further questions you ask after I can tell if you're genuinely celiac or not. hopefully in better ways the awareness helps those that really do struggle and can now have better options for food and home cooking, but if you're not actually celiac… yea…
Please don't be like Erin Bies and start using A.I. for any aspect of your videos. (script, outline, anything) Her content is low effort and boring now, but you are so much better than that.
I used to buy the Simply Doritos to avoid red-40, but they removed artificial coloring in the last couple of months 🎉
Im gonna save my money and buy non organic everyday.
1. Can somebody tell the gluten-free girlies that pork rinds are gluten free? Please? I wanna see reactions. 2. $15 for chicken nuggets at a "spot" in Manhattan? Tracks. I try to pre-game when I go down there.
Dropping in to say I’m so happy you reached your career goals outside of yt but dang I miss your content on the reg!
No AI please.
LMAO!!! Lululemon doesnt even make their own leggings. They buy them in bulk from a factory in China (Like AliExpress) and then they put their tags on those leggings
We do not live anywhere to one of those stores. Even if we did, I would not shop there. I do occasionally go to the more expensive store, Byerly's, when I want a fancy cheese or extra fancy baking ingredient. That is maybe once a year? Our regular grocery store usually stocks plenty of unique items.
Surprisingly, Walmart has a decent selection of gluten free products.
Try their gluten free hamburger helper dupe. Great Value gluten-free stroganoff dinner kit. $3.48, feeds 3 people easily.
Is it “healthy”?
About as healthy as regular cheesy hamburger helper. Which is to say, probably don’t eat it 3 times a day forever.
But it’s definitely filling on a cold day, and super easy to prepare when it’s cold outside and you have to feed the family after a long day.
People are trying to hard to be different. You can be healthy without spending a mortgage payment
12:51 have to say, between the two packs, the regular Doritos are definitely more minimalistic. The "special" ones have nine words, a couple of round logos, a bunch more chips and a lump of cheese on them. The "ordinary" ones have three words and two chips – there are a couple of smudges that might be extra words but if so, since they're virtually invisible on my screen they don't count. (Am ignoring the weights text at the bottom of both, but including the Doritos name on both.)
On aesthetics, I'd call the ordinary ones a better design; perhaps it's just they're so familiar that we think of the looks as "common". But the other ones are too busy trying to tell us how special they are, at least for my liking.
Personal taste varies, of course, it just made me laugh to hear the fussy ones called minimalist. 🙂
The shade on "which ideally are fully cooked" had me cackling 😂😂😂
I’m with you 100% on the lululemon leggings! I workout about 4-5 days per week and those wunder trains are unmatched!!
The biggest irony is, that Erewhon started out/was created as a whole foods for pennies store owned and run by a Japanese family, a tiny room with large sacks of whole grains stood on the floor and from which customers would fill their individual containers. It was very grass roots, and was geared towards the then small community of vegans/plant based eaters, and was created to provide them with a place to buy whole plant based foods, for pennies, as there were very few places/stores if any, who catered to this demographic. As the owners believed in a eating whole plant based foods, and living a healthy, active lifestyle. So it was about health. Then in the 2000s, I think, the store was sold to a new owner, who promptly turned it into the posh, overpriced, esthetics driven influencer 'heaven' we know today. That makes me sad.
Consistent, reliable, and shelf stable, are all qualities of ultra processed "foods". To say that, that makes berries good and gormet, is absolutely ridiculous. Mr. Posh has no understanding of what quality/gormet berries, or foods are are. We have Driscoll berries here in Canada, in every grocery store, from the cheapest to the expensive. They are run of the mill, green house grown berries. The reason they're 'shelf stable' is because they are picked when unripe, to be shipped across tens of thousands of miles, and because humans have designed them to be so. Berries are not supposed to be shelf stable, that's unnatural, they're meant to be bought and eaten fresh, not to be left in in your fridge/on a store shelf for weeks. Same goes for consistent (the inconsistent ones, which are not esthetically pleasing, never even get into those small plastic containers), and, green house vegetables and fruit/berries are more production consistent then the ones grown seasonally, outdoors, on farms, because they are grown in a much more controlled environment. As for reliable, yes, you will have a reliable supply of green house berries all year 'round. But they are also consistent in always being lower in quality, and taste. And as such, they most definitely do not qualify, or are justified to be sold for the price he's selling them. Here they sell for $4 – $6 CAD. Mr. Posh is a joke.
Luxury grocery stores are NOT the same as gormet food/grocery stores. Nor are they geared towards the same customer base. Luxury grocery stores focus on luxury, exclusivity, prestige and curation, and the high end experience/lifestyle, and athmosphere. And cater to afluent customers. Gormet food/grocery stores focus on on high-quality, specialty ingredients, artisanal, and imported products for cooking, they cater to Home cooks, and foodies who want to cook/eat quality, specialty foods, using high quality specialty ingredient, which are often imported from other countries, which specialize in them. Such as high quality, specialty ingredients which come from different countries Europe, which have centuries old traditions of making them. A food item being expansive and overpriced does not make it gormet.
Over consumption isn’t the cost it is about the amount of thing… buying so much clothes that you end up donating clothes you never wore… or having more make up or food products that can be before they expired