Whole Foods
 

A Whole Foods just opened nearby our house. Wow. This is how the Koran would describe a supermarket in heaven. Very impressive.

Whole Foods have been in Texas a long time. They are surpassed, if you can believe it, by HEB Central Markets.

I believe the first Whole Foods was in Austin.

I love Whole Foods, but I always end up spending more money than I originally planned. Central Market, though, is enormous. If you can't find something there, you'll be hard-pressed to find it anywhere else.

We have something called Central Market. It's very good. But Whole Foods is in another league. One of the employees said that ours is smaller than most of them but has a larger prepared foods section because of the proximity to downtown and lunch crowd. I thought the whole layout from meat to seafood to produce to pastries to gourmet cheeses to wine, to smoked meats and fish, to bistro/deli, etc. etc. was very nice.

I said to my wife that as consumers we're the perfect storm for Whole Foods. She's attracted to all the organic foods, and I love the gourmet stuff.

There is no Central Market in Seattle. Yours is something else, even if they try to lay claim to the name.

We don't have a Central Market here in Salt Lake, but we do have Grove Market, the home of a serious sandwich.

You should read the undercover economist... He talks about why you pay more at whole food places (its not what you think)

Care to summarize? Or do I really have to go out and get the Undercover Economist? :) My problem is that I like to eat and cook different things, and so when I see the speciality foods I can't get at my own grocery store, I end up buying more than I originally plan to.

It all started in Austin. They still have the headquarters there.