Defenestrating Thoughts from the Bivouac

Forget measuring the relative density of cars in the parking lots of Walmart versus Whole Foods, now you can measure how severe the recession is from the comfort of your home: Whole Foods is sending out coupons!

Late last week, I got my “Clipper Magazine” and on the cover there’s a full page ad from Whole Foods with two coupons: a $5 of a purchase of $25 and a $10 of a purchase of $50. That’s an effective savings of 20%!

For now, let’s just ignore the fact that Whole Foods has more than a 100% mark up and you still would be paying way too much.

You know times are tough when Whole Foods is offering coupons. It makes sense though. I mean, if you can no longer afford your trophy wife, you probably can’t afford to pick up your organic, natural, cage free, free range, fair trade, local, dolphin safe, shade grown, carbon neutral, omega-3 hummus without a coupon. :-)

In related news, the Clipper Magazine also has two coupons for Great Clips and I’m WAY overdue for a haircut. It’s nice when things work out like that.