Meant to mention this much earlier, given how popular posts about the Whole Foods Market® Bowery are... So, the store has shut down its sizable Beer Room (as of April 17) on the corner of Chrystie and East Houston ... signage points to an incoming Coffee Bar, likely a much better all-day draw than a beer store. (One employee said she thought that the Coffee Bar would be two levels.)
However, WFB isn't done with beer... the sizable suds stock has been moved into the main part of the store... though without any kind of growler service (WFB did away with its homebrew stock in 2013) ...
This is just the latest in WFB enhancements for the 10-year-old store ... including a rebooted bakery and prepared foods region.
There was news yesterday that Albertsons may make a bid to buy Whole Foods.
Only EV Grieve seems to think that changes in the layout of this Whole Foods store merits comment with pictures. Why? A shareholder in While Foods?
ReplyDeleteYes, @Anon. 8:44, our beloved EV Grieve is a shareholder in While Foods, the dark web version of Whole Foods, where everything sold is made with trans fat, palm oil, CAFO meat, and all sorts of nasty unregulated ingredients. He's showing these photos to give his readers some sense of the too-wholesome alternative and its constant fiddling in an attempt to make their healthy goods more appealing to the uninterested.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, dude, the bus doesn't stop where you live, does it?
evg is a local blog reporting on local topics? nytimes might not have the same local coverage.
ReplyDeleteIt's explained in the post: posts about the WF Bowery tend to generate a lot of clicks.
ReplyDeleteI used to go to this Whole Foods almost every day but now I go once a month at most. Aside from the tourist takeover and its longer lines, they got too obstructionist with the food sample tables in the middle of the aisles at rush hour. You want to get in the way of me buying stuff in a hurry so I will be forced to stop and maybe buy this other thing I don't need that you're trying to get going? AND I have to deal with crowds of european tourists? Goodbye.
ReplyDeleteUgh, now I have to stand in the regular lines to buy my brewskis.
ReplyDeleteManagement is very desperate to meet their goals. How to improve business and not alienate regulars. They are failing miserably. I barely go anymore.
ReplyDeleteGojira are you really one to get on someone's spelling when you spell your own username incorrectly? It's Godzilla, not Gojira. This isn't Japan in 1955 (and yeah I know your name is the og name for the big fella.) Just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteIt is kinda weird that there are a bunch of photos showing WhOle Foods foray into boozedom. So they turned an unprofitable space into profitable one - not much to see there.
I appreciate the WF posts. I used to shop at this store a lot, but stopped because of the crowds. Seeing the new interior shots is helping me determine whether or not I want to shop there again.
ReplyDeleteI used to shop at this Whole Foods too but I wasn't emotionally crippled enough to deal with their fakakta checkout system that wasn't rocket science yet no one seemed to be able to follow.
ReplyDeleteThis is also the only place in the 'hood that I know of that sells the Sam Smith Organic Chocolate Stouts and the one time I went in there to buy them the register was locked!
This place is dead to me now. Dead.
I'm the opposite of Spike: now I *get* to stand in the regular lines to buy beer, along with my groceries. Like most of the world does it. You know, in some places like California you can even buy bottles of hard liquor at the regular old supermarket right alongside your eggs milk OJ etc. You can even buy liquor on (gasp) the Lord's Day--what a world.
ReplyDeleteAnyways I never saw much business at that WF beer store. I would guess they are going to sell more beer with the new setup. That new beer aisle looks pretty sweet you have to admit.
Nice photos. LOL I see they carry my favorite IPA. Sweet.
ReplyDeleteBeer store. #imneverforgetting
ReplyDeleteBeer store!
DeleteI don't know what WF is supposed to be, it's such a jumbled concept, backed by sullen/indifferent service that is a giveaway sign of unhappy employees. A mess.
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