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| - Oh my! I love Whole Foods, or Whole Paycheck as we call it, for its vast selection of happy produce, earth-friendly products, vegan foodstuffs, and other pricey delights. I've been to many Whole Paycheck locations in Northern and Southern California, and this one blows them all away. It is truly palatial, with wide isles and uncrammed shelves. The vitamin section was nearly as large as the entire store where I normally shop!
One of my favorite gifts to get for the gourmand who has everything is some fancy salts; this location had an entire shelf dedicated to expensive, uncommon salts. There is an Asian deli with soba and sushi. There is a bakery and a sandwich station; these all ring the traditional deli. Don't get me wrong: the deli is pricey. But the price-tag is by weight. My sesame tofu was $7.99 per pound, but the five sticks plus sauce I got came to $3.60. My fireworks coleslaw (yay vegan coleslaw) was $5.99 per pound but the small I ordered came to $1.14.
They also carried my favorite beverage of all time, young coconut juice in the coconut, and the tops had been capped so you could just pop in a straw!
This is the only place I know of (besides Amazon) where I can buy my herbal galactogogue and the environmentally friendly diapers I use for my daughter.
This, the nicest Whole Foods I've every been to, is nestled amongst block after block of upscale shopping. It shared its lot with Pier One and Sharper Image. There is a Target across the street as well as a Vons, where you can buy your paper towels and other basics without paying Whole Paycheck's markups.
PS: Whole Foods has a much larger selection than Wild Oats, which is why I prefer it. There is a second location in Henderson (100 S. Green Valley Parkway).
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