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I don't think they will ever build it. Wegmans, which is extremely well run, is 1000 feet away. IMHO they have all the same organic products, hot food and salad bar, with a superior bakery and a much larger selection. I recently, on a trip to Jacksonville, stayed at a hotel which was next door to a Whole Foods market. I shopped there every day for 2 weeks and got to know it really well. The store is clean, like Wegmans, with nice employees, like Wegmans, and aisles and aisles of health foods. There are a lot of similarities. If I was in charge of Whole Foods expansion I would certainly not locate it near a Wegmans flagship store plus there is a Trader Joes close by as well. If you look at Whole Foods website Buffalo is not even on the list of "stores in development". Only time will tell.
Whole foods is based in Austin, so we have some of the nicest ones in the country. They are two floors and absolutely massive. Multiple hot food stations, a full bar, patio, etc, etc.
In other parts of Texas they put in little whole foods stores.
My take. Wegmans is a real grocery store with some gourmet elements to it. Wegmans is a place you can shop at every week.
Whole foods is far too high priced for me to shop there ever. I go there for lunch once in a while and drop 15 dollars on a entree and a bottle of water. Food is excellent.
There are smaller whole foods stores, and their offerings are much less. They are about the size of an ALDI grocery store.
They are starting to build Whole Foods 365 stores around here. I have not been in one. They promise more value oriented options.
Either way they are apples and oranges. Whole foods is more of a specialty store than a grocery store.
Wegmans has nothing to worry about, Joe Q public isn't going to do a weeks worth of grocery shopping there on a regular basis.
Yeah, well, when Wegmans ventures into new markets, it gains legions of converts in those areas, probably because it's a place where ordinary people can shop for their groceries while getting "amenities" only found in much pricier grocery stores. Wegmans currently has stores in Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Correct. Whole Foods tends to gain converts, too, for its own reasons. Perhaps it won't fare well in WNY. But my agenda was simply to counter a guy who considers Tops >>>>>>>>> much better than Whole Foods
At least I'll know where to find the white, middle class people.
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