Growlers of Beer at Whole Foods

Anyone know the price of the beer at Whole Foods?

Ahhh, the joy of State control of alcoholic beverages. Let's see, you can get hammered on beer while you grocery shop, but it is impossible for a grocery store to sell wine for off premises consumption. Hmmm.

Bill

[Robin Garr]

Is the cafe side at Lotsa Pasta a different set-up entirely? I thought I saw beer in there last time we passed through.

You know, I'm not sure, Roger. I've had coffee in there but never noticed beer. I'm pretty sure Lotsa Pasta doesn't sell package beer on the store side.

The trivialities of politics aside, I'm gonna have a few beers next time I grocery shop!

Anyone know the price of the beer at Whole Foods?

Roger is right, you can grab a glass of beer (between $3-4) before you head out to shop--makes it a little more interesting.

That's an incredible lineup, period. Good work!

Yesterday at Fresh Market, some of the front line cashiers were a bit harried dealing with a ton of last minute TD shoppers. I laughed and said, " Hey it could be worse, they could all be drunk." After reading this thread my heart goes out to the clerks in all the departments at Whole Foods.

was asking about the 32oz and 64oz growlers Justin

Back in the days when WF was buying up local natual food stores and operating them under their old names, I worked for WF (under the name of Wellspring). Yes, they were a big corporation, and, yes, they had a lot of anti-worker big corporate policies, but compared to any of the other local stores, they were very good to their employees. A health plan was available, and I could have purchased it on my wages, but my university's health plan was cheaper. We were given breaks in a comfortable environment, we were given a substantial corporate discount, and we were encouraged to eat for our own health. We were given a small share of profits in addition to our wages (which were already a couple of bucks above minimum wage). Our immediate bosses treated us like human beings, and I'm pretty sure that attitude was encouraged by the corporate head office.

Now, this was many, many years ago, so things might have changed, but they were, on the whole, fairly good. Yes, I hated the rah-rah "team spirit" garbage they fostered (no one was buying that we were in it together with the multi-millionaire Mackey, at least not in our liberal college town). But by and large they were okay. Certainly not bad enough for me to boycott the company.

Oh, and my immediate boss, a large, native American woman, was promoted to headquarters and moved to Texas. She worked her way up from clerk to management. You don't see a lot of that at other groceries.

Sooo....since I like a place where I can get local grass fed lamb and growlers of local beers, I'm going to continue shopping there, even if the boss and I disagree.

Alright, here is the rundown for anybody who is interested. the prices are for glass/32oz/64oz

BBC Scotch Ale 2.99/4.99/7.99
Kentucky Bourbon Ale 8.99/5.49/3.49
Schlafly Coffee Stout 2.99/3.99/6.99
New Holland Cabin Fever 2.99/3.99/6.99
Stone Arrogant Bastard 3.99/5.99/8.99
Bells Christmas Ale 3.49/5.99/8.99
Great Divide Hibernation Ale 3.99/5.99/9.99
Edmund Fitzgerald 2.49/3.99/5.99

NABC Hoptimus, Upland Barrel-Aged Winter Warmer, and Great Lakes Christmas ale finished today. These are what we're looking at as of 2:00pm today. Of course I encourage people to bring growlers if they already own them; if you need to purchase a new one, the 32oz bottles are flip tops and cost $5 and 64oz traditional growlers are $3. Thanks ya'll.

Picked up some Stone Arrogant Bastard on the way home. Tasty.