Comment by mgce

Comment by mgce 5 days ago

8 replies

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 5 days ago

Wegmans 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.

  • bombcar 5 days ago

    Whole Foods has always felt like Trader Joe’s - a great place to shop but few will shop only there - even for groceries.

  • mangodrunk 5 days ago

    Can you share some examples in gaps of staples?

    • 0xffff2 5 days ago

      In 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 5 days ago

        That’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 4 days ago

          I 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.

    • ceejayoz 5 days ago

      I'm not OP, but don't go to WF looking for stuff like ibuprophen or sudafed.

      • mangodrunk 5 days ago

        True. That would be nice if they had more typical pharmacy items.