I live a block away from this WF.
I used to go there until Trader Joe’s opened on 72nd/Broadway.
One time, I bought some fresh looking ground beef. When I got home, I was about to make a burger. I cut into the meat to reveal that the butchers at Whole Foods has wrapped fresh pink meat around fetid, rotting, old brown meat. It was vile. Never have shopped there again.
If you buy meat in a plastic dished tray, the air inside the container is carbon monoxide. The CO keeps the outside surface of the meat pink for extended periods.
Our WF *claims* to grind the hb every 15 minutes; it’s about the only thing I buy there ..sorry your experience is otherwise.
I grew up on shopping with a butcher....since I moved, finding fresh, fresh meat, cut to order is a challenge to say the least.