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The Whole Foods on Miller Avenue in Mill Valley, California, now sits fenced off after closing permanently in late September
The Whole Foods on Miller Avenue in Mill Valley, California, now sits fenced off after closing permanently in late September
Some food for thought on a related note from a couple of years ago, FWIW...
https://www.reddit.com/r/wholefoods/comments/1asosvc/shrink/
Whole foods sucks....last 2 times I walked in the one in my town (that wss all but empty), I walked out empty handed......prices are stupid high.
I have no idea how that chain stays afloat.
Oh the horror!
Home of rich hippies/trust fund brats. Rumored to be the birthplace of the first AWFUL Karen.
It actually began in Texas ...
The Early Years
In 1978, twenty-five-year-old college dropout John Mackey and twenty-one-year-old Renee Lawson (Hardy), borrowed $45,000 from family and friends to open the doors of a small natural foods store called SaferWay in Austin, Texas. When the couple got booted out of their apartment for storing food products there, they decided to simply live at the store. Since it was zoned commercial, there was no shower stall. Instead, they bathed in the Hobart dishwasher, which had an attached water hose.
Two years later, John and Renee partnered with Craig Weller and Mark Skiles to merge SaferWay with their Clarksville Natural Grocery, resulting in the opening of the original Whole Foods Market on September 20, 1980. At 10,500 square feet and a staff of 19, this store was quite large in comparison to the standard health food store of the time.
Less than a year later, on Memorial Day in 1981, the worst flood in 70 years devastated the city of Austin. Caught in the flood waters, the store’s inventory was wiped out and most of the equipment was damaged. The losses were approximately $400,000 and Whole Foods Market had no insurance. Customers and neighbors voluntarily joined the staff to repair and clean up the damage. Creditors, vendors and investors all provided breathing room for the store to get back on its feet and it re-opened only 28 days after the flood.
Expansion
Beginning in 1984, Whole Foods Market began its expansion out of Austin, first to Houston and Dallas and then into New Orleans with the purchase of Whole Food Company in 1988. In 1989, we expanded to the West Coast with a store in Palo Alto, California....
https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/company-info/whole-foods-market-history
I remember meeting a friend for lunch, at the Houston location, many moons ago ... she wanted me to check out the ‘natural’ make up and all of their produce.
I was hooked! 😂
California regs make it impossible to remodel. Thank you Pelosi/Nesome.
“despite there being another store a mile away. “
life is really tough sometimes when you’re an extremely wealthy elitist ...
Oh Boo hoo.
The horror of first world problems.
Food deserts of the liberati...oh the horror.
There's always a silver lining. You have to start by looking around clouds, because that's where the silver linings are.
Whole foods is a whole rip off.
You have to be a moron to shop there. Same Driscoll fruit I get at my Kroger’s only at whole foods, the prices are an insult. Who do they think they are anyways...get outta here.
So let the locals buy the place, fix it up, and run it themselves.
There is nothing like a natural rodent infestation that makes me want to shop at a grocery store.
A rat infested whole foods?
Liberals want to shop there.
Figures...
Overpriced Grocer closes, panic ensues.
the DM just had a story about the closure of some Starbucks was gonna cause property values to crash ... now this ... total bullshit of course, but i guess it gets some clicks, which is all that matters these days ...
This is a really stupid "news" story. Whole Foods defined the community? How shallow and vapid is that? Some idiot bought a house because it was near an overpriced "healthy food", small grocery store?
I have used to shop at Whole Foods on occasion, but stopped because they had nothing I wanted that wasn't much cheaper than at Safeway. Oh, and I never saw people "catching up" in the aisles.
YOU BOUGHT A HOME/PROPERTY DUE TO IT’S PROXIMITY TO A WHOLE FOODS STORE?????????
SOMEONE HAS TOO MUCH $$$$$$$ AND TOO FEW BRAINS
I HEAR MANY COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE OVER 50 STATING THAT THEY MUST LIVE WITHIN 20 MINUTES OF A HOSPITAL——
BUT A GROCERY STORE?????
WHAT A STUPID LIST OF PRIORITIES