Paying more attention to Whole Foods in the news since they're boosting their regional presence (I still don't plan on being a patron), I read that a lady tried to cover groceries for her family on a minimum wage.
I ran some numbers to see what the lady would have if she worked at minimum wage or slightly above:
Min wage ($7.40) 40 hrs a week:
7.4 x 40 x 6=$1776
7.4 x 40 x 6=$1776
$888/3week month?
$8/hr 40 hrs a week: $320
8 x 40 x 6=$1920
$960/3week month
"buying all of her groceries at Whole Foods for under $500.00" [total for 30 days $491.10] {1}
The $8/hr is how much a better paying temporary campus job at UM-Dearborn tends to offer.
It's interesting to see how other people define their kitchen and dietary needs. I recall a celebrity chef (I'm pretty sure it was Nigella Lawson, though it could be Julia Childs; they're both cool) professing their penchants for cooking in other peoples' kitchen. It can be an insightful experience to work with what someone else finds mundane or takes for granted. I'd liken this to playing a musical instrument that belongs to someone else, borrowing books from a professor's personal library, or (without being too strange) even noticing how other people brush their teeth. There's a lot of subtle character in all of that. Some of it is optional and motivated by one's volition and perception of the world, while others are shaped by circumstance.
Oddly enough, we heavily rely upon an artificial and transient medium (money) to fulfill fundamental natural needs. So much that it can sharply influence the capacity of our health. Time and geography would be the rest, but living things dealt with that for eons.
Speaking of health, I'd love to get into a tangent about nutritional education and marketing, but that's for another time...
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I'll have to read into the original accounts later...
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