Oh, Whole Foods, why won’t people cut you some slack? All you want to do is fulfill all of our most overzealous fantasies

Oh, Whole Foods, why won’t people cut you some slack? All you want to do is fulfill all of our most overzealous fantasies of wealth and privilege. For instance, who wants to peel their own oranges like some kind of common lemur? No one, of course. The Whole Foods’ solution: Sell them pre-peeled. But if they’re peeled, won’t the go bad? Yes, they will, but Whole Foods has a solution for that: Put them in plastic. Isn’t technology grand?

Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before another piece of technology came back to bite the upmarket grocery store in the ass. Yesterday, user Nathalie Gordon posted a photo to Twitter featuring the exact scenario above: Peeled Sumo mandarins individually repackaged in plastic containers. “If only nature would find a way to cover these oranges so we didn't need to waste so much plastic on them,” she quipped