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PS Picks: Emily Mester’s Sharply Observed BuzzFeed Essay on Costco

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Varun Nayar

Environment

Whole Foods Jumped the Shark With Its Plastic-Encased Oranges

A grocery-store gaffe sparks an ethics debate over plastic packaging and the merits of convenience foods.

Jeff Turrentine

Economics

From Our Prison to Your Dinner Table—Unless You Shop at Whole Foods

The organic grocery chain will stop selling products made by the Colorado Correctional Industries after months of customer complaints and negative media coverage.

Kate Wheeling

Economics

From Our Prison to Your Dinner Table

At America's strangest workplace, laborers are making toys for kids, picking grapes for wineries, and farming tilapia for Whole Foods—all for $1.50 an hour.

Graeme Wood