The good first-the employees at this location are allways extremely nice to deal with.
The manager must be very good at hiring and manageing. The store is very clean and stocked well most of the time. Again great employees!
The bad - The prices are rediculous on most of the products.
I started buying from health food stores in 1968 that's over 40 years and back then the stores were really helpful and yes the prices were slightly higher than the regular grocery stores. Whole Foods has created the health/gourmet concept taken from stores like Alfalfas in Boulder. The prices are so inflated at Whole Foods that I feel that to be a big turnoff to new customers who want to start eating healthy. So instead of getting people excited about changing their eating habits and getting healthy, Whole Foods is discouraging these people with the prices.
At Whole Foods if you want to buy Organic Green Beans you have to buy them in a
12 oz. pkg for $3.99 which works out to be $5.32 a pound!! At Trader Joe's Organic Green Beans are $3.25 a pound that's $2.07 a pound difference!!
Organic produce in most cases at Whole Foods are as high as you can get.
Another example a store I shopped at in California before moving here had
Knudsen's Organic Recharge on sale from early spring to the end of fall season as a loss leader for $1.59 a quart for six months. They keep stacks and stacks of cases by the front door and Never Ran Out. Why because they appreciate their customers and happily pass on the savings to their loyal customers. Whole Foods normal price is $3.29 and when they put it on sale for a day or two it's $2.69.
My point to this review is how does Whole Foods develop a loyal customer when they show that the only thing important to them is profit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This last summer they ran out of their gallon size 365 brand Organic Apple Juice that they actually sell for a good price all the time. In the summer one of the few items sold at a very fair price was out of stock for months.
The bulk item section which used to be in health food stores to be a way to save money-not anymore bulk items are priced so high it's amazing.
Let's all encourage Whole Foods to do the right thing!