Here's a look at the lowest prices I could find this week at our Boulder natural foods stores for items that I consider to be pretty much staples: organic tomatoes, conventional avocados, fair trade decaf bulk coffee, chicken breast meat, and a half gallon of organic 1% milk. Sunflower and Sprouts were visited on 4/9, Whole Foods (Pearl Street store) and Vitamin Cottage on 4/11.
Organic tomatoes
Sprouts: cluster tomatoes, $4.99/lb
Sunflower: hothouse tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Vitamin Cottage: greenhouse tomatoes, $3.19/lb
Whole Foods: hothouse tomatoes, $3.99/lb
Conventional avocados
Sprouts: 50 cents for an unusual type, 88 cents for Hass
Sunflower: 99 cents (conventional or organic)
Vitamin Cottage: 79 cents for organic, conventional not carried
Whole Foods: $1.99 (organic $2)
Bulk fair trade decaf coffee
Sprouts: $8.99/lb
Sunflower: none (non-fair trade $6.99/lb)
Vitamin Cottage: could only find Daz Bog at $9.99/lb, probably not fair trade since doesn't say
Whole Foods: $12.99/lb
Organic half gallon 1% milk
Sprouts: Horizon Organic, $3.49 (but there was a better price on a non-standard size brand)
Sunflower: Horizon Organic, $2.89
Vitamin Cottage: Organic Valley, $3.15
Whole Foods: 365 brand, $2.79
Chicken breast without bones/skin
Sprouts: boneless, skinless chicken breast value pack, $2.99/lb
Sunflower: chicken breast tenders family pack, $4.49/lb
Vitamin Cottage: boneless, skinless chicken breast 6 pack, $6.89/lb
Whole Foods: boneless, skinless chicken breast value pack, $6.49/lb
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Uh, your chicken comparison is no good. Vitamin Cottage and Whole Foods are selling free range organic, you are comparing it with the bogus "USDA natural" chick'n at Sprouts/Sunflower that is raised in cages and given antibiotics. I think they even feed the chickens twinkies to bulk them up. Makes em sweeter.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment, and I agree with the underlying premise of it, as I've posted a number of times about how the store policies differ, and the need to balance ethical concerns with what you can afford.
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