Whole Foods

[Martin]

wildflower?

i think soonerguru meant sunflower market...

sunflower farmers market to 6401 n. may

-M

[ChargerAg]

the so called outdoor seating area now seems to have a hydrolic garage door on the end facing the campus.

[metro]

The SE corner? It has all windows, or at least it did.

[redrunner]

the so called outdoor seating area now seems to have a hydrolic garage door on the end facing the campus.

Stop calling it the outdoor seating area. It's not outdoor and no one ever designated it as the so called outdoor seating area.

[ChargerAg]

I was the one that started calling it that. I can call it the mystery structure on the SE corner if you prefer. I still think it will be some kind of eating area and from the camera today it looks like the window on the end fold up like a garage door.

[ljbab728]

I was the one that started calling it that. I can call it the mystery structure on the SE corner if you prefer. I still think it will be some kind of eating area and from the camera today it looks like the window on the end fold up like a garage door.

I guess if nothing else, people can buy their snickers bar and an RC Cola and walk over there to eat it. LOL

[Pete]

It looks like an semi-enclosed eating area where the eastside door can roll up. I bet some of those windows will open as well.

It also looks like there is now a patio that surrounds it which almost certainly will have tables, chairs and umbrellas.

[ChargerAg]

Check out this story about the new whole foods opening near downtown Houston. I know we can't expect all of this stuff as we are a smaller city but it does make me start wondering what kind of coll unique features we will have at ours.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...d/7620422.html

[Debzkidz]

Guess we can be sure we won't be getting the cool wine bar and the area for wine and cheese pairings. Oh, well, I guess the trade off is we don't get the wine selections/ but we don't have to live in Houston either.

[jmarkross]

Never been to a Whole Foods. Is it like other places...a sort of Gelson's/Mrs. Gooch's/Trader Joe's combined--on steroids?

[ljbab728]

Never been to a Whole Foods. Is it like other places...a sort of Gelson's/Mrs. Gooch's/Trader Joe's combined--on steroids?

I've shopped in Gelson's a number of times. The only difference I saw from a standard OKC store was the wine and liquor area.

[Dustin]

I heard from a guy who is in the produce business that the OKC WF is going to be a "C" store compared to a nicer "A" or "B" store... Is this true? I wonder what an A and B store has that a C store doesn't?

[betts]

I heard from a guy who is in the produce business that the OKC WF is going to be a "C" store compared to a nicer "A" or "B" store... Is this true? I wonder what an A and B store has that a C store doesn't?

Sell wine?

[Dustin]

That was my guess too..

[bluedogok]

I think it is a size classification, the 80,000 sf stores would be the "A", those in the 60,000 sf range are the "B" and the 40,000 and less are the "C" stores. They have started on the new store at The Domain here in Austin to replace an older 35,000 sf at the Gateway Center in North Austin, I found out last week they are staying with the 80,000 sf store for The Domain that was planned to start in December 2008. They have since announced 5 new stores in Austin that will be about the same size as the OKC store. They are putting one store in across a parking lot from the South Austin Costco, it was a Haverty's furniture store, when Stein Mart closed that store, Haverty's moved into the smaller store next door and Whole Foods is moving in where Harverty's was.

[bombermwc]

Well from what I was told by employees of the other stores nearest us, we're not supposed to be the bottom of the barrell or anything. And I thought they had not totally cut off the wine thing....i thought they had walled off an area so they could still sell wine but that it was in a seperate area so it could be closed on sundays and whatnot. It's kind of hard to just totally let go of alcohol sells since they add up to so much. I don't see any reason why they have to give it up, they just have to design in a more creative way.

[J. Pitman]

Well from what I was told by employees of the other stores nearest us, we're not supposed to be the bottom of the barrell or anything. And I thought they had not totally cut off the wine thing....i thought they had walled off an area so they could still sell wine but that it was in a seperate area so it could be closed on sundays and whatnot. It's kind of hard to just totally let go of alcohol sells since they add up to so much. I don't see any reason why they have to give it up, they just have to design in a more creative way.

I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a wine/beer component that is separate from the whole foods itself.

[betts]

Well from what I was told by employees of the other stores nearest us, we're not supposed to be the bottom of the barrell or anything. And I thought they had not totally cut off the wine thing....i thought they had walled off an area so they could still sell wine but that it was in a seperate area so it could be closed on sundays and whatnot. It's kind of hard to just totally let go of alcohol sells since they add up to so much. I don't see any reason why they have to give it up, they just have to design in a more creative way.

Maybe that's what the mystery area on the east side of the store is.

And looking at this building compared to some of the other Whole Foods I've seen, there's nothing 3rd tier about the construction.

[bluedogok]

Well from what I was told by employees of the other stores nearest us, we're not supposed to be the bottom of the barrell or anything. And I thought they had not totally cut off the wine thing....i thought they had walled off an area so they could still sell wine but that it was in a seperate area so it could be closed on sundays and whatnot. It's kind of hard to just totally let go of alcohol sells since they add up to so much. I don't see any reason why they have to give it up, they just have to design in a more creative way.

Oklahoma is not unique in the beer/wine restriction, the Whole Foods in Boston that I (Beacon Hill area) had no alcohol, it seems Massachusetts is a "package store" state without the 3.2 beer grocery store option like Oklahoma or Colorado. It also wasn't until the past couple of years that all of Dallas went "wet" instead of the wet/dry areas by voting district.

Now they might have a "separate liquor store" leased out to an independent retailer like the Costco stores down here do.

[BG918]

Oklahoma is not unique in the beer/wine restriction, the Whole Foods in Boston that I (Beacon Hill area) had no alcohol, it seems Massachusetts is a "package store" state without the 3.2 beer grocery store option like Oklahoma or Colorado. It also wasn't until the past couple of years that all of Dallas went "wet" instead of the wet/dry areas by voting district.

Now they might have a "separate liquor store" leased out to an independent retailer like the Costco stores down here do.

Tennessee doesn't allow wine in grocery stores either. But they can sell strong beer.

That hasn't stopped Whole Foods and Trader Joe's from opening up several locations in that state.

[metro]

Here we go again......

[ChargerAg]

I think they have finally started laying the floors.

[ben]

Great to see that OKC is getting a wholefoods! I personally have been to their store in Seattle and St Louis. Loved the choices of the artisan produce that they had. Things that they just don't carry at the local Walmart or Target. It'll be a great addition to the classen curve area!

[metro]

Artisan produce? I thought they just carried organic produce, not artisan

[foodiefan]

well. . .some of the organic can border on "artisan"!