Originally Posted by
datlas
Whole foods has good stuff but WAAAAY overpriced IMO. I prefer Wegman's and Trader Joe's.
Yeah. A lot of their stuff is overpriced, but they have come down some this year as their business wasn't doing so hot. And they do sometimes have deep discounts on things like fish and some of their meats. Unfortunately, there is no Wegman's in downtown Philly, and the TJ's in town just doesn't have a lot of what I like to eat. On the up side, I can walk to the Reading Terminal from my office during lunch, and there is a fish monger and decent produce place in the basement of the Comcast building, which is across the street from my house.
For staples/canned goods, I will make a rare weekend run to ShopRite about 15 mi. away and stock up. One knock about living in the "Art Museum Area" is that it has have never had a large, chain grocery store. That's a major reason that WF does so well. I heard the new place is the second largest WF in the country. And they will lbe selling beer and wine!
BTW...Art Museum. They moved into the ground floor of a new, mixed use building at 22nd and Pennsylvania, about 2 blocks from their original location. The South St. store sucks. Way too cramped.