While we were all focused on American Apparel and the New Mission Theater project as evidence of a divided Mission District, Meave over at vegansaurus! took a hard look at the chasm between Foods Co and Rainbow Grocery:
It’s shitty that good grocery stores like Rainbow can be prohibitively expensive to people in lower tax brackets, and they’re left to buy non-perishables in disorienting big-food mausoleums, among roving hordes of drunks and weirdos and constant arrests in the parking lot. Then we all get to laugh about it and feel special for all the awesome deals we get, like, fuck Safeway, I’m shopping at FOODS CO! And aren’t we so clever with our slumming and penny-pinching?
Read on for lots more analysis (both sociopolitical and dietary), and the chicken bone.
Photo by Sexpigeon. See its story here.
Previously:
Rainbow Grocery wouldn’t have it any other way.
to the writer of that blog: there are just as many weirdos at rainbows as there are at food co; and my guess is that you are one of them. and don’t get me started on the parking lot. Food co’s is much better than the weirdo-run lot at rainbows. “It’s shitty that good grocery [...]“, no, what’s shitty is losers like you who think you know what’s ‘shitty’ for the ‘poor’ people that shop at food co. vs. rainbow. no one at food co wants to shop at rainbows, so take your false-compassion-hiding-your-real-self-pity attitude back to rainbow.
hey thanks! I do love both these stores so; I hope that’s evident.
Protip: the people who shop at Foods Co can’t drive. It’s best to avoid the area immediately outside the parking lot, especially when walking or biking.