I used to go to Whole Foods on Fridays after work to get growlers of microbrewery draft beer to bring home. And that's it.
Publix is on a major expansion in the SE and intentionally builds next door, across the street or as close as it can get to the most upscale grocer in town who takes the biggest hit from the newcomer.
Paid a visit to Kroger while visiting my daughter in Ohio (they bailed out of Pittsburgh 30 yrs. ago due to union problems).
Since I don’t live near any myself I did not have their little blue shopper discount card. Do NOT shop there without one! They charged me full rippin’ retail for EVERYTHING.
I used to go to Whole Foods on Fridays after work to get growlers of microbrewery draft beer to bring home. And that's it.
Kroger openly welcomes shoppers who carry.
The think I like about Kroger is that when they acquire a local supermarket chain, they keep the local branding, and add the Kroger Quality Control and house brands. So you essentially have a local supermarket, but your loyalty card is good all over the country.
They continuously rose in price the last 8 years while Obama was in office. I'm guessing Wholesale Foods have lost a lot of their business due to the higher cost of organic goods from the younger veagan and hipster customers who found out you have to make your vehicle payments every month or they come repossess it.
Wegman’s is the answer.
My daughter says that when people ask her what’s so great about Wegmans (obviously someone who has never heard of it before) she tells them to think Whole Foods with three times the quality at half the cost.
The major food chain in our region, Food City, announced this week online sales for pick up at the store. My wife hopped on immediately but was disappointed to learn it was being rolled at only one store.
She pretty much lives on her computer or kindle and the grocery list made on line as she thinks of things can be put in the shopping cart and ready when she goes to the store.
such an ability will save her time and more importantly, walking
Even better - go to Aldi. The best grocery store on the planet in terms of prices and quality.
Yep.
People shop from their computer, pay with their card and swing by on their way home.
It is a five minute or less stop, you have all your shopping done and you never had to leave your air conditioned or heated car.
Organic Arugula framed by Rainbow children, fertilized with organic Yak poop, watered with limestone-filtered water, lovingly picked by organic virgins and costing half a paycheck gets really old after a while; one eventually craves Wendy’s Chili or the like.
1. The indy/gourmet food producers have better online services and don’t necessarily need WF to get their unique item to customers. Without the fun stuff why go there?
2. There is usually a local alternative that can beat them. Being a locavore is trendy.
3. We had a new Whole Foods open up in an area that has one boutique grocery store and our local version of Kroger’s “limited service” store as the competition. People were worried about the boutique store. I wasn’t. I thought that Whole Foods’ biggest competition would the Whole Foods 4 miles away.
4. The expansion and improvement of take home meals, organic foods, whole foods and gluten free products at a regular store give more people a one stop shop.
5. Gluten Free foods are more trendy than Whole Foods now.
I hate both of these markets which are gun-free zones.
“Health food stores” not inducive to my health.
Looks like an ongoing attempt by LIBERALS to put WHOLE FOODS out of business because they detest the CEO’s opinion on OBAMACARE.
Whole Foods threatened with boycott by liberal customers after CEO compares Obamacare to ‘fascism’
In my NJ town, Whole Foods has been dragging its feet in putting up its store for about 4 years. I pass it every day and NOTHING is going on. Luckily, I found it in Princeton about a half hour from my home. We have no Krogers in NJ/NY so I either depend on WFs, Wegmans (which stinks), my brilliant local food market (summer) or the Union Square Market.
Where I live in Alabama, we have Walmart, Winn-Dixie and Piggly-Wiggly.
Walmart is the best deal pricewise.
We got a new store in town called Super Foods. They sell mostly to welfare people (EBT/SNAP), so their prices are cheaper than Walmart. But quality? Actually, not too bad if you like chitlins and greens! Seriously, good prices and quality on Soul/Southern food ingredients.
Whole Foods business model is doomed.....................
I’ve never shopped at Whole Paycheck. I just don’t seem to need those $6.00 jars of asparagus water, and if I did, I’d make my own. Walmart, Aldi, Kroger, Fiesta usually in that order. I don’t shop at the overpriced Safeway turned Albertsons, either.
Gee, who woulda thunk price would determine volume