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Consumerization of Environmentalism
"Natural-food grocer Whole Foods Market Inc. said Tuesday it will rely on wind energy for all of its electricity needs, making it the largest corporate user of renewable energy in the United States," the Associated Press reports.
"It's a sales driver rather than a cost," Whole Foods regional president Michael Besancon tells the AP. "All of those things we do related to our core values: help drive sales, help convince a customer to drive past three or four other supermarkets on the way to Whole Foods."
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and in other random news
A study finds that young single white males are more likely (than other members of the workforce) to come into work with a hangover
File that under "Finding out things we already know for $25,000 Alex"
"It's a sales driver rather than a cost," Whole Foods regional president Michael Besancon tells the AP. "All of those things we do related to our core values: help drive sales, help convince a customer to drive past three or four other supermarkets on the way to Whole Foods."
[emphasis mine]
and in other random news
A study finds that young single white males are more likely (than other members of the workforce) to come into work with a hangover
File that under "Finding out things we already know for $25,000 Alex"
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Man its great being the only one that remembers shit when you go out drinking with friends :p
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but I've enjoyed ridiculing my friends over them
and
yeah
I usually drink significantly more than my friends
but I'm the one making sure they all get into cabs
and home safely
[then blackmailing them in the morning]
[with the indescent photos I took of them]
[when they were blotto]
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The funniest thing I've ever seen was when a friend of mine that fairly new to drinking thought that he can drink Bacardi 151 (mmm... tasty rum; see icon) like I do. I've never seen someone so tall, he's 6'6 (I think) fall like a house of cards.
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That said.. when I was living in PDX I loved the walk to the neighborhood New Seasons.. Yeah.. that could be nice.
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