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There are a few select items that I can't get at a grocery store I will buy. I would maybe try other items but the cost is usually too high especially if I don't like it. I have noticed some of the store brand items of Whole Foods for example nut butters are less expensive.
I go there for a few specialty items. I do always drool over the salads and prepared food buffet. They have a good selection of meats, cheeses and breads. There is also a brand of pepper sauce that I am obsessed with that I could only find there, until one day I stumbled upon it at Safeway. Go figure.
PS - Everyone I know calls it "whole paycheck" also. Teehee!
No WF near me. I shop ALDI for some things like yoghurt, block cheese, and pork chops.
We have a family chain and I do some shopping there after I check the Sunday circular for the sales. There is a Price Chopper across the street from the family chain and while they have much higher prices, the sales are worth crossing the street.
For an all-out "specialty" day, Wegman's has many items that our other markets don't carry, so I shop there sometimes. The prices on family-friendly items are excellent.
I buy paper goods, detergents and HBA at K-Mart.
I love mangos just as much as the next guy, maybe more! That being said, what in heaven's name are you going to do with 18 of them?! They are perishable you know! Opening an Orange Julius in your front yard maybe? Inquiring minds want to know!
Make sure you wash them all ASAP, so the fruit flies don't take over your kitchen. Good luck!
they last a couple of weeks, maybe 10 days. I pick some not so ripe and some ripe ones and let them ripen on the counter. Note: I do live in Seattle where it is bloody cold most of the time. so when i am at work if I've turned the thermostat down, its like being in a cool cellar.
I dont wash fruits till I am ready to use them. here is what i do with them.
when the mango is slightly soft and smells good, peel it with a sharp peeler, add a couple of tablespoons of pavels nonfat or low fat yogurt, and 1/2 to one cup of milk and blend it.
add less milk and more later to your taste. you would want to taste the flavor level that works for you. if you are feeling decadent maybe a tsp or so of cream... yum....
so if you do that with two everyday- one for me one for the kid. it lasts about a week and some. and then you could freeze the rest and mke popscicles in zoku
I would go there for items I can't find at other stores that are imported. I can only imagine that a lot of upper income people shopping there since it's so expensive. For a household making 60-80k a year, that would eat up a lot of income.
I certainly do not do all my shopping there but I do love their brand 365 and find those prices quite good. As an example their bottled water is .99 per gallon which is the same price as Deer Park at Walmart. I but their canned black beans and so forth. As I explore it more and more I find the things that are reasonable and that I like. Their bakery section typically has something on sale that I can get.
I go there for bulk stuff and specialty/deli type foods I can't find anywhere else. Although seriously, I prefer to support locally-owned businesses and around here I can always find cheaper and better selections elsewhere.
But doesn't WF source their products locally, when available?
Whole Foods is good for bulk foods - rice, beans, grains, cereals. Less expensive than most grocery stores and because of the turnover, I imagine fresher. When I buy a bag of, say, dried black beans at Kroger I do wonder if I'm buying ten-year-old beans.
Also their deli and salad bar are fabulous. But expensive.
Overall Trader Joe's is cheaper. Here in Michigan, Meijers tends to have a great selection of locally grown produce (and farmers markets are the best) and a couple of small butchers near me carry cage free/pasture raised chicken, grass-fed and free range and/or Halal beef and lamb...so I have a lot of choices. I just spent a few days with family in Chicago and they don't have those choices; since they are picky about sourcing food (and can afford it) Whole Foods is a great option for them.
I would imagine that WF prices competitively, depending on the competition, but maybe not so much.
I would also expect that a lot of their produce is as local as possible, unlike supermarket chains.
How much economic independence does each store have, and how much does it send back to headquarters, and is that amount only used to create a sense of uniformity and shared standards in all stores and pay for advertising?
Is a porterhouse steak's cost the same in Texas as it is in New York?
Does WF actually sell tomatoes that taste like tomatoes, because local supermarkets, but for Campari, do not?
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Opening an Orange Julius in your front yard maybe? Inquiring minds want to know!
