I am not sure I agree with this. At my local Whole Foods, the bike rack is usually filled with 30 or more bicycles. (Mostly employees, I assume, but I'm sure I'm not the only person that uses his bicycle for grocery shopping.) Inside, people seem to be thinner than the average shopper at Jewel down the street. (If you want highly-processed foods, that is where to find them -- everything is highly processed. So while Whole Foods may not be perfect, it's orders of magnitude better than "normal" grocery stores.)

I agree that Whole Foods has a lot of "unhealthy" food. If you eat nothing but steak, yeah, that's bad. But if you eat it once a month, it's better to buy a good one from a cow that was not pumped full of antibiotics and that ate what nature intended it to eat.

I am not sure that Whole Foods has a lot of "highly-processed carbs", though, so it would be good if you could clarify that. Sure, you can buy pasta there, but I consider that "minimally processed".

In addition to all that, they do have a lot of healthy food available that you can't find elsewhere. (I was happy to find some locally-grown peaches the other day. Fruit tastes good when it isn't shipped in from South America.)

So Whole Foods is not perfect, but like anything, it's a good tool. You can go there and get some great healthy food. Or you can go there and buy soda and cookies. It is up to you. (I am partial to some of their energy drinks. Not very healthy, but very delicious!)