Results: Whole Foods sent some customers a disconcerting email about their turkey
Published on 11/29/2020
An undetermined number of Thanksgiving chefs who purchased their bird from Whole Foods woke up this morning to a concerning email.
A "small number" of fresh market turkeys that were purchased from Whole Foods "did not meet our high expectations for quality," the letter from Amazon customer service said. The note stressed there was no known food safety or health risk with any of the turkeys, but still, its recipient would be given a $50 Amazon gift card credited to their account.
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Were you one of the people who received this email?
Yes
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No
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Not Applicable/Did not buy turkey from Whole Foods
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Whole Foods was also seen responding to some customers on Twitter re-affirming that the turkeys were safe to eat, and pointed them to US Food and Drug Administration guidelines for safely roasting a turkey. If you (hypothetically or actually) received this email, would you or did you still eat the turkey? Yes
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No
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Undecided
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Not Applicable/Don't eat turkey
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Have you ever gotten sick from poultry before? Yes, poultry I cooked
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Yes, poultry someone else cooked
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Yes, poultry from a restaurant/fast food chain
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No
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Not Applicable/Don't eat poultry
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Reached for comment by CNN, Whole Foods confirmed that it had "discovered a small number of fresh turkey products in our South region that did not meet our high expectations for quality." Do you think Whole Foods should have went into more detail on what the issue was? Yes
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No
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