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Whole Foods will refund your Thanksgiving turkey if you mess up cooking it with new 'insurance'

  • Whole Foods Market and Progressive Insurance have teamed up to create a turkey "insurance plan" ahead of Thanksgiving.
  • The first 1,000 people who make a turkey cooking mishaps claim will receive a $35 Whole Foods gift card under the Thanksgiving Turkey Protection Plan.
  • In order to qualify for the "insurance" plan, soon-to-be turkey cooks need to purchase their Whole Foods branded turkey between November 11 and 22, and the claim needs to be made between November 26 and 27.

Whole Foods Market and Progressive Insurance have teamed up to create a Thanksgiving Turkey Protection Plan.

The plan is simple: Whole Foods turkey purchasers will be eligible for "turkey insurance" — a $35 Whole Foods gift card — in case a cooking mishap tanks the grand Thanksgiving centerpiece.

According to a statement from Whole Foods' vice president of meat and poultry Theo Weening in a news release, the unique "insurance" was created for this year's influx of "smaller Thanksgiving gatherings and first-time cooks tackling turkey preparation," an inevitable result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in the US.

Read more: Inside Amazon's 'whirlwind courtship' of Whole Foods, as told by the grocery chain's founder John Mackey

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