People Are Really Angry About Whole Foods’ Pre-Peeled Oranges In Plastic Containers feed_manager_aut

[WhiteTara]

Whole Foods has been forced to apologise after an image of its oranges provoked an angry reaction online.

Twitter user Nathalie Gordon ‎ @awlilnatty) posted a picture, below, of the supermarket chain’s pre-peeled fruit incased plastic containers.

She quipped: “If only nature would find a way to cover these oranges so we didn’t need to waste so much plastic on them.”

The image quickly went viral – and now has more than 58,000 likes and the same number of retweets.

[Hortensis]

1. Really angry? Don't buy that stuff myself, but good grief.

IMO, disapproval expressed by refusal to purchase, and perhaps a courteous comment to the store manager and/or email to corporate, would be more effective and less wearing on over-fired neurons.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. I think people are happily mocking them all over the country....

Seems fairly effective.

[ghostsinthemachine]

2. I hate that shit

They take a fruit or Veggie, cut it up, put it in plastic, then charge 50 times what the product would cost if it were natural... and you had to (Gasp!) cut it up.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. Some idiot is buying them, though.

If they weren't, they'd quickly abandon it as a loss.

[ghostsinthemachine]

5. Lots of idiots are, even at the environmental (anti Fracking) event I was at last night

They had styrofoam cups, plastic bottles of juice, cookies and cakes in plastic and veggies in plastic.

I did not say anything.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

8. I went to try and pick up some of the

Morningstar Farms products at a local grocery the other day, and ended up not buying them because of packaging. They'd switched from recyclable cardboard boxes around very minimal plastic inner bags to thick heavy, 'resealable' plastic bags. Very frustrating to see companies moving to MORE wasteful plastic packaging, rather than less.

[valerief]

6. I remember when laundry detergent was powder and in bio-friendly boxes.

Now, it's liquid, heavy, and in thick plastic jugs. Much heavier to ship.

In fact, these days at the supermarket, I look at the rows and rows of liquid being shipped in plastic that doesn't need to be.

For the past couple of years, I've been washing my hair with bar shampoo (J.R. Liggett's; works so well I only have to wash my hair every other day instead of every day). I also make my own liquid hand soap (1 bar of shaved, pure castile soap brought to a boil with a half gallon of water; stir off and on for 24 hours and put in hand pump containers; makes a ton). I even make my own safe weed killer and my own laundry detergent.

I know this won't make a dent in anything, but it's my small fuck you to shipped liquids and heavy plastic containers.

[Freddie]

9. I get the detergent in the little pods

Just throw one in the washer (no messy measuring) and they come in a little plastic bag, not one if those big bottles. Purex is cheap and works great.
My problem is cat litter, our favorite kind only comes in those PITA huge plastic containers. The boys are really good about using their box so I'm afraid to change.

[840high]

10. Yes. I switched to pods.

[valerief]

12. I've used the pods, too, but I got to wondering why they have to be liquid. Why not powder in

a pod? But then, why a pod at all?

[KamaAina]

7. Indeed they are.

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