Whole Foods

[Easy180]

The way I look at it is if you are that price conscious, Whole Foods doesn't expect your business to begin with. Their business model is working very well, even in a place like OKC which is more price conscious than most cities. Some people are willing to pay more for better quality, selection, and yes the status of being a Whole Foods shopper.

And many of them display the shopping bags in every room to show how much better off they are than their neighbors

[Buffalo Bill]

Personally, I go to the whole for their very fine quality of products and their exceptional customer service. The fact that you don't have to put up with this:

Man Accused of Masturbating at Walmart - KTUL.com - Tulsa, Oklahoma - News, Weather & Sports

is just a fringe benefit.

[Plutonic Panda]

Personally, I go to the whole for their very fine quality of products and their exceptional customer service. The fact that you don't have to put up with this:

Man Accused of Masturbating at Walmart - KTUL.com - Tulsa, Oklahoma - News, Weather & Sports

is just a fringe benefit.

Are you sure no one has ever masturbated in a Whole Foods? Every time I go in there, there are some fine looking older women walking around that place.

[PennyQuilts]

Are you sure no one has ever masturbated in a Whole Foods? Every time I go in there, there are some fine looking older women walking around that place.

Omg!

[Plutonic Panda]

Omg!

Now looking back at that comment, it kind of sounds wrong... haha. I'm not saying I ever did that..... I like to think I'm a little more decent than to do something like that lol

I'm just saying, I'm sure someone ELSE has done it.

[bombermwc]

I absolutely agree that some people shop there just to use it as a status symbol. It's stupid, but they do it.

I'll say this, you won't find that same feeling for people that go to Sprouts. Thank goodness.

[metro]

Maybe, MAYBE, some of the produce is similar (although Sprouts has very little organic produce for sale), but the meat and seafood at Whole Foods are on a level that Sprouts or no one else in the metro can begin to match. I feel 100% confident of the seafood and meat I purchase at Whole Foods. I have stopped purchasing seafood from any other store -- and for good reason (Google it, I don't have time to explain it to you). Also, the in-house products Whole Foods creates in store are better. The flowers are better. The bakery is better. It's better in just about every way, and if you think you can find food that is as good as that at Sprouts, I don't know what i can say.

Whole Foods and Sprouts are completely different stores, with different standards of products. Whole Foods is better in every way, and it's not close.

This. People that compare Sprouts to WF really haven't spent much time at Whole Foods. Not even near the quality or selection. Totally agree about the meat quality, Wayyyyyy better than anywhere else you'll get, it's on another level. Highly recommend the black forest bacon BTW!

[CuatrodeMayo]

...and yes the status of being a Whole Foods shopper.

You can't put a price on that feeling of superiority over mere mortal shoppers.

And many of them display the shopping bags in every room to show how much better off they are than their neighbors.

I absolutely agree that some people shop there just to use it as a status symbol. It's stupid, but they do it.

Highly recommend the black forest bacon BTW!

case in point - Idioms - by the Free Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

[Plutonic Panda]

Whole Foods will no longer accept checks.

Oklahoma City grocery store to stop accepting checks | Oklahoma City - OKC - KOCO.com

[HOT ROD]

too many bouncing?

[John1744]

Whole Foods will no longer accept checks.

Oklahoma City grocery store to stop accepting checks | Oklahoma City - OKC - KOCO.com

Oh thank god, as a grocery retail manager I cannot wait for checks to die. I'll dance a happy dance the day we get to refuse to take them.

[bchris02]

Any recent news on a second Whole Foods location? There was quite a bit of chatter several months ago but it seems to have died down.

[OKCDrummer77]

Oh thank god, as a grocery retail manager I cannot wait for checks to die. I'll dance a happy dance the day we get to refuse to take them.

I don't understand why anyone would want to write a check in a retail environment. Swiping a debit card is so much easier.

[ctchandler]

OKCDrummer,
I don't have a debit card, my choice, I'm not a fan of them. I normally pay cash, sometimes I use checks, and I also use credit cards.
C. T.

I don't understand why anyone would want to write a check in a retail environment. Swiping a debit card is so much easier.

[RadicalModerate]

How about a Grocery Store Concept that accepts checks called Half Foods?
. . . and isn't Aldi with their precious obsession regarding a quarter deposit on a shopping cart
on the verge of extinction?

QuiKKwiZ/InFormalSurveY: How many posters on this topic actually go to the store and actually cook?
My guess: 2 per cent. shop on . . .

[ljbab728]

I don't understand why anyone would want to write a check in a retail environment. Swiping a debit card is so much easier.

I never write a check but I agree with ct. I almost always pay cash. I'm am usually just not comfortable using a credit or debit card in a retail store. I normally know about how much money I'm going to need and will stop by my bank ATM before shopping if I need more. There are too many horror stories about stolen information.

[kevinpate]

... stop by my bank ATM before shopping if I need more. There are too many horror stories about stolen information.

Understand the concern, but then again, when someone goes the skimmer route, they usually target busy ATM machines, so there's that.

[ctchandler]

RM,
I'm sure Aldi's would like to do like they (and most grocers) do in the London suburbs and require one pound sterling (a coin worth about $1.60+) for the cart deposit but nobody in America carries a coin larger than a quarter so if they required a dollar coin, who has one of those except for banks and the Federal Reserve? Funny thing is though, we Americans are so cheap that we want our quarter back and will walk a long ways to return the cart for twenty five cents! As for your survey, I only cook because I'm a widower that seldom leaves the house to eat out, so yes, I go to the store and I can "actually" cook although not very well.
C. T.

How about a Grocery Store Concept that accepts checks called Half Foods?
. . . and isn't Aldi with their precious obsession regarding a quarter deposit on a shopping cart
on the verge of extinction?

QuiKKwiZ/InFormalSurveY: How many posters on this topic actually go to the store and actually cook?
My guess: 2 per cent. shop on . . .

[AP]

Oh thank god, as a grocery retail manager I cannot wait for checks to die. I'll dance a happy dance the day we get to refuse to take them.

As someone whose industry is developing and implementing item processing software for banks, I hope that day never comes.

[bchris02]

Checks will always be around for various things. There are some things, like grocery shopping, that they are rarely and shouldn't be used for. When I pay my rent however I have to write a check. My apartment complex charges a $20 convenience fee to pay online.

[bombermwc]

I pretty much exclusively do not carry cash these days. It sometimes becomes problems in places like our backwards turnpikes that don't take plastic. But more often than not, it makes things far easier than carrying around cash or having a checkbook in my other pocket. The younger the crowd, the less likely they are going to be to carry cash too.

[ctchandler]

Bchris,
Why do you say checks shouldn't be used for grocery shopping? If it has to do with my time at the register, I can complete my check (already filled out with name, date, payee, and my signature) as quick or quicker than you can pay with a debit/credit card. Now, someone that waits till every item is checked and bagged before even pulling out their checkbook, then after writing the check, fills in the register, I know how frustrating it is waiting on them, but that's just inconsiderate and inconsiderate people are just as slow with a credit/debit card. As for your apartments "convenience fee", just use online bill paying and let them write the check for you. I'm not even sure you have to have a checking account to use the online bill paying service, but I could be wrong.
C. T.

Checks will always be around for various things. There are some things, like grocery shopping, that they are rarely and shouldn't be used for. When I pay my rent however I have to write a check. My apartment complex charges a $20 convenience fee to pay online.

Once in a while, when I had planned on paying cash and realized I had bought more than I had planned, I fill out the check while in line at the checkout counter, and if I'm next and I haven't completed the check, I will let the person in line behind me go before me, that way, nobody waits on me.

[jmpokc1957]

Checks will always be around for various things. There are some things, like grocery shopping, that they are rarely and shouldn't be used for. When I pay my rent however I have to write a check. My apartment complex charges a $20 convenience fee to pay online.

Can't resist having fun with this one!

1. I use checks quite often, especially at the grocery store. Winco still takes them and I don't use a debit card. If they want my business they'll need to take my check. As for those who are inconvenienced by the extra 30 seconds or so it takes me to write the check, then you'll really be inconvenienced by the minute or two I take to engage the cashier in conversation. Sorry about that..

For those will rail at how inconsiderate I am, heal thyself. I don't like to stand in line either, so make sure all your items have their price tags on them, don't have holes, dents or leaks in them, show up in the computer or qualify for subsidies. Checks aren't the only cause of slow lines.

2. I do all the cooking and grocery shopping for my wife and I. I make breakfast, pack lunches, make dinner, bread, yogurt, can vegatables, you name it. I enjoy doing it and I get better, higher quality food and It's much easier to control calories and such. The growing, preparation and preservation of food rank high on my list of priorities.


3. Just to make sure I annoy the 140 character attention span, for you weather geeks, which includes me, we're going to warm up here in western Oregon due to a curious phenomena. When high pressures centers over eastern Oregon, the resultant east winds get compressed on the down slope side( western ) side of the Cascade Mountains and really warm things up, including the Oregon coast. Makes for great weather on the normally cold and cloudy coast.

have a nice day

Mike

[FighttheGoodFight]

I'll play along.

I hate when slow people write checks. If you have one already filled out and are waiting in line to just sign and put the final total I have no issue.

Unfortunately I tend to get stuck behind the older woman who is rumbling around the purse for the checkbook after the total has been read aloud. Now I will say I would feel the same if they paid with a card but the check filling out process seems to take them quite a while as well.

When I get to the counter I have my card out ready to go, swipe and exit. I guess I don't have a problem with checks just a problem with not being ready to pay. This goes for people who talk on the phone while checking out...That is another story for another day though.

[Mel]

If I use a check I have them ready with everything but the amount. Some of the readers for cc's and dbc's ask so many questions that a check is faster. Cash, thank goodness, still works everywhere I go.