4 years ago
They were 5 stars for me, until just now. Hopeful...
They were 5 stars for me, until just now. Hopefully they will correct this issue, especially based upon the California 65 warnings regarding plastic packaging.
Erewhon Market states, on their website, that they are:
". . . a haven of pure, clean, nutrient-rich foods and products that change the lives of the people who shop here. What we offer is made with great care and love, and with respect for the wellbeing of our customers and our planet."
I believe this is their intention. However, whether it is a correctible oversight or not, they have introduced a new horrible smelly thin, plastic bag, in which to place your organic vegetables when shopping at their markets. If their produce was not reliably 100% organic, there would be little reason to pay the added price to shop there.
Today, I shopped at Erewhon online, using Instacart and the Instacart shopper carefully wrapped $217 worth of organic vegetables in these horrible, tissue-thin, plastic bags. The entire order, arrived at our home, smelling like it came from a plastic chemical factory.
Printed on each bag, right next to Erewhon's trademark tag line: "If It's here It's Good For You,"
is a claim that these plastic bags are Eco-Friendly because they degrade fast and are thus supposed to be more politically correct for the environment.
But degrading faster means they also off-gas faster. What's the point of purchasing anything organic, or healthy, if it's placed in plastic, chemical smelling bags?
Since California has placed Proposition 65 warnings on many new items due to the plastic containers in which they are packaged, I can't understand how Erwhon Market could let this slip by.
For me, and perhaps other Erewhon Loyalists who go out of our way and pay the prices for Erwhon's healthy promise, using plastic bags like these, for any food product, is like locking your front door, to keep out bad things, but leaving your windows wide-open.