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Strong disagree, and I used to go to that Wegmans regularly. It's fine. Solid market. Whole Foods is equally fine, and excels in some ways. Neither is obviousl
by mgce 8mo ago
Strong disagree, and I used to go to that Wegmans regularly. It's fine. Solid market. Whole Foods is equally fine, and excels in some ways. Neither is obviously better.
- ecshafer 8mo agoWegmans is obviously better than Whole Foods, and its not even close. You can much more easily buy normal food at normal prices at Wegmans than Whole Foods. Whole foods has very large, strange gaps in staples.
- mangodrunk 8mo agoCan you share some examples in gaps of staples?
- ceejayoz 8mo agoI'm not OP, but don't go to WF looking for stuff like ibuprophen or sudafed.
- mangodrunk 8mo agoTrue. That would be nice if they had more typical pharmacy items.
- 0xffff2 8mo agoIn my experience, it's less gaps and more lack of mainstream brands. The example that comes to mind is ketchup. At Whole Foods I can get generic store brand ketchup or a variety of fancy ketchups that cost 3-10x as much, but they don't have any variety of basic Heinz on the shelf. This "mid-market" gap is common for virtually every product category.
- mangodrunk 8mo agoThat’s true, but intentional because of the focus on organic and avoiding certain ingredients. That is one of the reasons why Whole Foods is better.
- Bluecobra 8mo agoI think I remember reading somewhere that 75% of the groceries at Walmart don’t qualify to be sold at Whole Foods. I thought Amazon was going to step back on this though.
- bombcar 8mo agoWhole Foods has always felt like Trader Joe’s - a great place to shop but few will shop only there - even for groceries.