Getting a WHOLE FOODS in our area

bonnielu · ‎03-11-2010

I really am not familiar with WHOLE FOODS. Anyone out there have that store and can tell me about it. What is nice nothing is near us...everything is a 20 mile round trip or more and this one will be only 3 miles away.

winamac1 · ‎12-29-2010

I rarely shop at Whole Foods--if I do, it's only for the loss leaders. I refuse to pay the exhorbitant and egregious prices at Whole Foods. I needed frozen broccoli, and I paid $2.99 for a 16 ounce bag. Down the street at Market District, I could have gotten the same amount for .88. I just didn't have time to make 2 trips.

I think their produce is only so so and it's more than triple the price in most instances.

Even if I had a lot of money, I'd probably not shop there often.

But, if it's the only grocery that's close by, I can see how some would be very excited to have it.

They do have a nice beauty, vitamin and supplement section.

"friends don't let friends drink white zinfandel"

PINKdogWOOD · ‎05-13-2010

@bonnielu Nice Ms Bonnie - there's one about 8 minutes from me. We go there on occasion not because we don't like it but because you need a WHOLE lot of money to shop there. However they are a WHOLE lot of fun with a WHOLE lot of good FOODS.

Definitely go and check it out with a WHOLE lot of time just to get through it all.

Goldengate8361 · ‎01-27-2014

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news to you.....but their food is really overpriced and the selection is poor. If you like to eat low-carb, I'd never have a reason to go in there. There is much hype about Whole Foods. My local Kroger is always a better place to shop.

gidgetgh · ‎03-09-2010

I've only been to Whole Foods a handful of times. To be honest, I'm not a big fan. Prices are really high and I just don't get all the hoopla. The bakery items look really nice. The cakes in the case are gorgeous, but major bucks. I go there to get body wash for my nephew's college care packages since I can't find it anywhere else.

i just think the prices are really high. I'm fortunate I that we have three terrific Publix stores all within 4 miles of us.

Why is it, when I have a 50/50 guess at something, I'm always 100% wrong?

Cookie2025 · ‎03-10-2010

Whole Foods pricing is ridiculous. They have gourmet foods but if you are doing everything eating it could get expensive to shop.

Too bad they did not stick a Wegmans there. I have to drive to Wegmans - but it is well worth it.

We have a Trader Joe's and The Fresh Market within walking distance and those are both decent places to shop.

FastDogWalker2 · ‎03-10-2010

Same story here. Our area got a Whole Foods a couple of years ago and at first I was excited to check it out. I rarely go there now. Like others have mentioned, it is very overpriced and there is nothing to draw me there. Trader Joe's is much better for the kind of shopping I do!

jackthebear · ‎03-11-2010

@bonnielu wrote:
I really am not familiar with WHOLE FOODS. Anyone out there have that store and can tell me about it. What is nice nothing is near us...everything is a 20 mile round trip or more and this one will be only 3 miles away.

I don't buy a lot of food there either, BUT the one I got to has a great lunch/salad bar. The wine selection is good, Three Wishes 2.99 Chard.

We are getting one in a renovation shopping center within walking distance soon , so we are planning on walking there for lunch

dex · ‎03-09-2010

I was really excited when our whole foods was opening but it is really expensive like everyone else has said.They have really great hot foods for takeout and that is popular here.Mine has a small micro brew pub that is fun and also popular.I like all of their organic produce but only buy what I can't get at Fred Meyer.

millieshops · ‎03-09-2010

I think you have to want to eat organic to want to shop Whole Foods or you have to want something you just can't buy elsewhere. It is expensive, but in my neighborhood, WF is still major busy, but I do live on the edge of some very expensive developments and there are several very busy stores that are as expensive or more.

Where I am, sometimes the produce is well-priced, sometimes it's not. But it's always been good and, very importasnt for me, it's not prepackaged and I can buy what one person needs. That alone saves me money because nothing goes to waste. In addition to produce, I do buy flowers there, I often buy their indivudally packaged frozen fish, and I love their cheese department - huge variety of not available elsewhere cheeses - not cheap though.

I am in a shopping mecca though - and just as close to my condo as WF is a Publix organic store which sells a mixture of lots and lots of organic foods, but also many items from general grocery you don't find at WF. Plus, if I drive the half mile in another direction, there's a Trader Joe's and other gourmet markets and 5 or 6 regular Publix.

What's amazing is that this time of year, they're all busy!