Took my 6 and 8 year old to Whole Foods yesterday because I needed specific stuff for meal prep. I was there for maybe 20 minutes. TWENTY MINUTES. I left with $180 in groceries I didn't intend to buy, my 8yo screaming at checkout about kombucha (??), and a migraine. Going back to regular grocery stores. Whole Foods clearly knows how to exploit the dad guilt.
Whole Foods with kids is basically financial self-sabotage. Why is everything there so SHINY?
We switched back to regular grocery stores and it cut our "impulse buy" damage by like 60%. Whole Foods is designed to make kids (and apparently dads) lose their minds. The lighting, the product placement—it's all calculated.
The kombucha meltdown is killing me. Why do kids have the strongest opinions about things they've never had?
This is why I do 90% of my shopping online now. Just order it, pick it up, done. No meltdowns, no surprise $30 açai bowls in the cart.
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I feel this in my soul. $180 in 20 minutes is actually impressive in the worst way possible. The checkout area is specifically designed to break you when you have kids with you.
Pro tip: send your wife instead and stay home with the kids. Saves your sanity AND your wallet. That's not lazy parenting, that's strategic resource management.