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Re:Whole Foods admits trying to sell asparagus water for $6 ... by JustSomeNobody on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:02PM (#19087164)
I cannot imagine when the product group was sitting around kicking out product ideas that this didn't make at least a few of them chuckle. I can imagine that at least a couple of them went home that night and, laughing, told their SO, "... and we're going to put asparagus in it and sell it for $6!!!"

I mean, how could any normal person NOT laugh at this?

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Re:Whole Foods admits trying to sell asparagus water for $6 ... by jorgesborges on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:21PM (#19087326)
The label makers are sophisticated and simple enough to use that anybody working in the store could have made them. I think the "product group" in this case was a manager or employee dicking around in clever ways trying to increase sales for his or her department.
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Re:Whole Foods admits trying to sell asparagus water for $6 ... by CydeWeys on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:07PM (#19087215)
There was no product group involved. This was made with the involvement of, at most, a handful of people at a single local store. Those bottles you see in the photo may well be the entire total number of these bottles that were ever made.
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Re:Whole Foods admits trying to sell asparagus water for $6 ... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:04PM (#19087181)
I can't wait for their cross promotion with GOOP, featuring homeopathic Gwyneth Paltrow pee.
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Re:Whole Foods admits trying to sell asparagus water for $6 ... by ghostbrainalpha on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:25PM (#19087368)
If it's mixed in with Kombucha I'd probably buy it.
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Re:Whole Foods admits trying to sell asparagus water for $6 ... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:50PM (#19087621)
I've only tried Kombucha once, but I'll admit I probably couldn't tell the difference.
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