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| - I love grocery shopping. If you said, I'm going to give you an unlimited shopping card for two hours to shop at either Dean & Deluca or Bloomingdales, I would pick Dean & Deluca.
Whole Foods, like Dean & Deluca is on the higher end of grocery shopping. You better come with plastic that can take the price tag. Everything at wholefoods is grossly overpriced but to be fair you're shopping there for their organic, imported and gluten free selection. Or, you just don't value being economic and spend frivolously.
The highlights: Great prepared meals section. Really diverse salad bar, at least six choices for homemade soup and a wide range of hot food selections that are for the most part healthy. You can get a lot of the organic fare at whole foods you'd usually have to track down at multiple health food stores. They usually have a nice meat, fish and seafood selection although one time I bought shrimps that were very sandy. Their dessert section is stoked with all types of gluten free, sugar free, dairy free and the good old fashioned with all of the above. That's my kind of dessert. They use paper bags and don't charge you. Yeah for the environment...but keep bringing your own reusable.
The low points: PRODUCE! It's not good. Either they've run out of it, it's going bad or they don't carry it. I really expected more from them. To top it off, it's outrageously more expensive then any other produce you'll buy in this city (besides Pusateri's). The price at Whole Foods is also a low point but it comes with the territory, so it shouldn't be a factor.
I still shop at Whole Foods because I can find dairy products and specialty imported products that I can't find anywhere else. I also love their soups! Worth every penny.
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