Whole Foods, Empty ‘Hood

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March 11, 2011

“My first thoughts when I saw the solar-powered Whole Foods sign go up in my neighborhood were: My life just got a million times better. The convenience! The consistent quality! The $11 half-pint of curried chicken salad! My second thought? I am such a fucking hypocrite.”

Rachel Levin explores how Whole Foods (of which there are now five in San Francisco) can kill a neighborhood.

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Isaac Fitzgerald

Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeneyâ€™s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed Newsâ€™ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award), and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He uses Twitter.

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Aaron

March 11, 2011

Interesting article and wanted to comment on it but I guess the website has its own individual commenting system which requires separate registration process. No way.

Must either (i) integrate comment system with Disqus so I am automatically signed in, or (ii) make commenting easy like The Rumpus or countless other websites. Wonder what the stats are on commenters turned away when a website requires separate registration process. Do websites/writers even care about comments anyway?