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There's nothing like the Berkeley Bowl <3. It's Trader Joe's + Davis co-op on crack^2^5. Various cities around the West Coast and Austin also have co-op grocer
by 1letterunixname 3y ago
There's nothing like the Berkeley Bowl <3. It's Trader Joe's + Davis co-op on crack^2^5.
Various cities around the West Coast and Austin also have co-op grocery stores, but Berkeley Bowl takes it to a different hypermart level while retaining a flavor reminiscent of Whole Earth Access.
And, honestly, even the Whole Foods (Amazon) flagship HQ store is a disgrace and a disaster: they don't sell any form of pita or lavash bread of any sort and half of their bulk bins are completely empty as of writing. This is a consequence of corporate bean counters who optimize for the wrong things. They were supposedly once a boutique bougie grocery store patterned after Italian grocers but instead developed into conspicuous consumption of pseudo luxury by anyone who drives an Audi or BMW.
- rgovostes 3y agoMy nearest grocery store was a Whole Foods for a couple of years. Their product selection is incomprehensibly bad. There were something like 6 kinds of alternative chickpea-crust frozen pizza brands but no plain flour tortillas. Freshly baked bread was almost never stocked. A virtually untouched naturopathy aisle but barely the medicine cabinet essentials.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoThe global WF HQ has tortillas, but they're neither local nor authentic. The customer service person proclaimed I should use tortillas instead. Gobsmacked by the unprofessionalism of that, it was the last time I've been to WF.