"Saerah Gray"
> I used to work at a Whole Foods, and there are a lot of great products
> there- but few that are not available for comparable prices at any >
> number of local stores. Seeing how much people would spend there, it >
> used to upset me a little that they seemed to be shopping there for the >
> cachet, when their expenditures could be better serving their >
> commnunity.
> Saerah

I didn't find it so in Bethesda. I shopped there because they had things I
couldn't find elsewhere or perhaps I would have had to crisscross Washington
to get them.
They sold a wide variety of cheeses, tiny vegetables, organic chicken back
when no other supermarket sold them. I reckoned they got their cachet from
my shopping htere.