Am I the only one who hates Whole Foods? (home, neighborhoods)
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I am not a fan. The aisles are crowded, and the food just isn't reliably good. I like the suburban ones better, but P street one is a miserable experience that I try to avoid.
....i get veggies/fruits and meat wayyyy cheaper and fresher at the D.C. farmer's market/Cap City Market with a much better variety of fresh spices....*GIVING HUGE SHOUTOUT TO MEXICAN FRUITS, where I can get a bag full of veggies/fruits for under 18 bucks and the Butcher shops in the Farmer's Market where I can get 3 lbs of chicken breasts for around 8 bucks......and if I want tofu, I can get it wholesale there sooooo no point in me going anywhere else EVEN the major grocery stores in this city ***side-eye at Safeway**.
Public Transportation costs are bad enough and I'm too cheap to buy at Whole Foods...I posted some pics of my beloved market Lord knows I'd be eating Ramen and Mcdonald's off the $1 menu without them lol.
I always thought Whole Foods was very expensive, but now I live very close to one and started to go there regularly and I realized it's not completely true. I don't know maybe they lowered their priced recently but I compared some prices with Safeway, Trader Joe and even Costco and many items cost about the same, some items are even cheaper, some stuff is more expensive.
But that's true for any store, there is no one store where everything is cheap, you can go to a crappy Giant or Safeway and you see some stuff horribly overpriced. Wegmans is not cheap at all by the way.
It all depends on what you buy I guess.
I would like to see some specific examples of what you think is expensive at Whole Foods.
I would like to see some specific examples of what you think is expensive at Whole Foods.
at the store I worked at, we had gourmet sea salts. One was made with truffle oil and cost like $60/lb. Now, you wouldn't buy a pound of the stuff, just enough to fill a small baggie, but that was probably one of the most expensive things we had (along with dry aged steaks). So yeah very expensive, but I don't know if it's overpriced.
at the store I worked at, we had gourmet sea salts. One was made with truffle oil and cost like $60/lb. Now, you wouldn't buy a pound of the stuff, just enough to fill a small baggie, but that was probably one of the most expensive things we had (along with dry aged steaks). So yeah very expensive, but I don't know if it's overpriced.
That's not what I was asking what's expensive comparing to other stores
I saw truffles in Safeway, they were $999.99/lb. Very expensive store huh
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Lord knows I'd be eating Ramen and Mcdonald's off the $1 menu without them lol.
