Whole Foods Market

I usually can’t afford anything in this place to shop for home but it’s a great spot to grab a quick bit to eat. the ideas are limit less as far as you want to eat. also a great spot there daily fresh samples. I love this location and the staff is super friendly.

I could neither afford to do all of my grocery shopping at Whole Paycheck, erm, Whole Foods, nor am I truly concerned that everything I eat have the latest health buzzwords on the packaging, but I do pop in here when I’m at the Southgate Shopping Plaza for a few fancy items I just can’t resist and the occasional good sale and coupon deals to be had (harder here, but possible if you know where to look with the Whole Foods coupon booklets and the manufacturer coupons — I got 2 boxes of almond milk last week for 79 cents each!).
There’s a private parking lot for Whole Foods, and they will also validate your parking if you’re in the garage (First 90 mins are free w/​validation from Southgate businesses). Inside is clean and bright, with visible and friendly staff. Average crowd sizes, though Sunday is just as popular here as every other supermarket, and Sundays are also $ 2 off per lb. of certain sliced meats at the deli; they carry the most delicious herb turkey I’m partial to.
The produce here looks great; I’ll only buy rainbow chard directly from the farmer’s market in season or from here (admittedly one of the snobbiest things I’ve written); it just looks floppy and wilty everywhere else! I then usually make my way through the bulk items for a scoop or two of my favorite personal grocery splurges: saffron rice, multi-​colored beans, herb & garlic cashews, freekeh, maybe a little bit of spice, depends on what my cooking magazines and Pinterest are recommending this month. I check whether the meat counter has my favorite blueberry maple breakfast sausages, and if the fish counter has any soft shell crabs (in season). Can’t leave without browsing the cheeses! They have a basket of cheese ends (I call them cheese butts) to try smaller pieces of different varieties they carry perfect for cheese plate snacking. There’s an express register in the back of the store near beer and wine in addition to the ones at the front of the store. I mostly shop the periphery of the store for my interests. This location also has a bar inside. Definitely recommended for good quality ingredients!

I made a purchase of a vitamin product without realizing the seal with missing. When I realized it, I had already discarded the receipt. I went back to the store to exchange it for the exact same product and they refused to do it without a receipt. I asked them to do a receipt lookup since I had the card I used, but they gave me some BS excuse that I had to know the date I shopped and refused to look up the receipt. I have done receipt look-​ups at other retailers without trouble – this is a standard practice in the retail world.
I was at a loss. My family has been shopping at that store since it opened. I left that day without buying anything from my long grocery list, and have found another grocer with which to do business. Nobody from my family will be returning to this or any other Whole Foods store in the future.
What a shame.

This is probably the worst Whole Foods in the lot. The staff is great but the following are consistent disappointments :
1. Seafood quality (Salmon in particular) seems to be on the steady decline. Just does not look as fresh as the seafood at the other Whole Foods’ so I assume that it is not. Once I was tricked into buying a piece of salmon, got it home and was afraid to eat it (it was not fresh) so I returned it.
2. The produce department is always out of things like shallots or certain mushroom varieties or random herbs.
3. They don’t bother to rotate some of the store made items like guacamole, salsa, fresh cut vegetables, pastries, etc. often enough. I look at the date of everything I buy and more times than not I put things back on the shelf because they’re too far beyond their preparation date for my taste.
4. I prefer veal and unless I’m lucky that day, it’s usually out of stock.
5. The hot bar is the saddest most uninspiring place in the whole market. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, offer something other than chicken!
6. What’s up with the coffee selection? On more than one occasion, half the shelves were half empty. Oddly enough, it’s the only department that seems to rotate in new items fairly often, but availability is inconsistent.

ITEMS UNSTOCKED, NOT ON SHELVES.
This has been happening way to often at this store.
Sorry, I have too many options nearby to shop whose shelves are always STOCKED.
Won’t waste my time.

This store has a lot of selection, the aisles are very open and clear than some of their locations. The employees are nice, helpful; and knowledgeable.
I recommend the cheese/​wine area as the go to place in this location,
highly organized and great selection.

Stopped for a cocktail at the bar before shopping. Tom was so welcoming and friendly that we ended up staying for a second. Whether on the floor or behind the bar, Tom’s always gone out of his way to provide excellent service.
The team behind the meat counter is consistently knowledgeable. Regardless of how busy they are, I’m greeted with a smile and never rushed.
Chicken chile verde on the hot bar is fantastic — the only thing that could enhance it overall would be to shred the meat so that it absorbed more flavor from the sauce. I’d branch out and try additional offerings there, but I always seem to end up in line behind a handful of professional free loading samplers in no hurry to move away from their favorite dishes.

Great friendly services every time I come in to the store!
They have the best selection on lamb and beef. My go to place for our Sunday home cook meals.

I am pretty fond of WF and favor them for fresh food even when traveling. I’ve been to this store several times when visiting Chicago but my most recent visit was in conjunction with a family barbecue on Labor Day and I was doing the grilling/​smoking.
The fish I bought (salmon & lake trout) was a huge hit. I did a maple-​tamari marinade for about 24-​hours on the salmon and a simple 2-​hour cure on the lake trout before smoking them with hickory. Basely a scrap of either fish was left. I got to try both and really enjoyed the fish.
The steaks were not cut as I had specified when placing my order a few days prior. I asked when I picked them up, even though they were already wrapped and they gave me erroneous information. Sadly, I trusted them as I would trust the guys in the butcher section of my local store and didn’t have them open the package to show me. Shame on me for that one! What should have been thin (no more than 3/​8″ thick) skirt steaks turned out to run almost an inch thick. I tried to work around it when it came time to grill but certainly did not produce my finest work.
Overall a good store but in the future they will be showing me everything that I buy BEFORE they wrap it up.

This whole foods has one of the best deli and fresh food areas !!! They so friendly and just seem all generally very happy to help. It is also in a very nice shopping mall. The vitamin area there many people to help you navigate thru the many new supplements and the benefits of them. They even took the time to research it !! Awesome and educational experience !!

I don’t shop at whole foods but I did notice alot of products and brands of foods/​drinks I don’t normally see at other grocery stores… I will give this location acknowledgement for having an excellent view of Wilis tower and free parking up to 1^st 90 mins! Multiple fast check out lanes at both ends of store!

I used to love this store few years ago. But when my husband was sick and want to have salad every meal. Yes whole food’s salad bar. Wooooo. Good so I started to go there every other day to get the salad until one day I saw one lady was changing the trays and I asked her are those vegetables are organic? She replied «I don’t know we have a food company deliver all those vegs. What??? I got ripped off? Since I have never
been to whole food.

This is my resident Wholefoods. Is conveniently located and the parking is good. The staff is very friendly. I love Terri at the Salad Bar, she is great. I wish they would put in a massage area like the one on North Avenue but I understand is a smaller store.

Whole Foods is a wonderful store… that you pay through the nose generally to shop at. A friend opines, correctly, that if you shop judiciously on raw items and not packaged hoo-​hah, it’s really not that bad. But oh boy, that packaged crap… and beer…$$$!! Minus one star.
Beautiful and inviting, Whole Foods are organized well and this one is no anomaly. I usually make a trip after the horror that is LA Fitness one floor down. So I come in from a back entrance of sorts where, nicely, there is a cashier. The cashiers are always friendly and if you bring your own bags you get a 10¢ per bag credit applied either to your exorbitant tab or to some kind of charitable donation.
I really like WF for their cheeses, fresh fruit and vegetables, and bulk grains, oats, spices, etc. Their meats and seafood are good but crazy pricy. Beer and wine selection is top notch but you can do better there, including on price, at Binny’s. Packaged items are typically pretty expensive but tend to be quality, usually natural and ethically sourced.
I rarely get anything from WF’s ready-​to-​eat offerings but they look and smell pretty delish.

While we all know Whole Foods is expensive, nothing beats this location with free parking, the fresh food section and many other shops in the building!

Last Thursday, I drove for lunch to Whole Foods. My coworker’s birthday was this weekend, and we wanted to celebrate at work for her. However, she has a lot of food restrictions: gluten-​free, milk allergies, nut allergies, chocolate allergies. None of us knew which bakeries covered all of her needs. Two of us decided to try out Whole Foods to see what options are available.
Whole Foods has a lot of gluten-​free options, a mini-​section dedicated to people who has Celiac disease. Within that section, they also had dairy free options. This helped us a lot but we needed a fresh cake. Those that were in the freezer were frozen. I asked a Whole Foods employee if I can just get a plain cake, no frosting (because frosting contains milk) from the oven. She said she could ask but then she pointed us to single cupcakes. Of the many options, we successfully found one baked good that our coworker could eat. I really appreciate this place because it has more options than most places for gluten-​free foods. It is a little pricey but had what we needed.

I love the parking garage. I wish grocery stores in the ‘burbs had these. It’s kind of nice to load your car up without being subject to the weather. This parking garage is too dark though, and people drive through here as if they are still on the street and not a parking garage. Slow down!
The employees here are extremely helpful. I managed to track down a young guy who helped me find both the truffle butter (by the cheese — who knew?) and the truffle salt (although sold out). He even went the extra mile to ask someone when he wasn’t certain of the answer.
Despite their helpful nature, this store is a disaster! The aisles are too narrow (I was subject to trying to maneuver between neighbors chatting about their privileged problems), and in general this place is just PACKED! Thanksgiving was over, and it was long before Christmas, just a regular Sunday afternoon. I broke a SWEAT in here.
I left with a $ 5 package of truffle butter. a tasty $ 2 elderflower rose lemonade, and a promise to myself to never come back and shop in a store whose customers outnumber the population of China.

Good location as its in the mix of the whole revamped Roosevelt Rd.
I only normally come here if I am in the area and just grabbing a few items. You won’t end up as grocery road kill here as you would at the Lincoln Park location on Kingsbury. I think there is free garage parking so don’t forget to validate.
The strawberry halo top ice cream is awesome as well as the squash bisque soup. Thank me later!

The store is huge and has two levels of free parking. It’s also more spacious than the Gold Coast location. Here’s my top 5 items I shop for at WF. Let’s start with the obvious:
1. Meats! So many organic, no hormones, free range, grass fed, you name it type of selections available. The quality is the best compared to other grocers.
2. Bulk/​bin items — dried fruit, granola, grains, nuts, beans etc. They’re pretty cost effective compared to the prepackaged stuff. Also, I can buy as much (to feed a village) or as little (to test out that new recipe) as I want.
The not so obvious:
3. Euro Classic’s French Brioche — Imagine King’s Hawaiian Bread but 100x’s better. Light, fluffy, buttery, good. On its’ own it’s delicious, but try it with some honey drizzled on top!
4. Harmless Harvest’s Coconut Water — Pricey but worth every penny. 100% organic and raw. I’ve never had coconut juice this fresh out of a bottle. I swear it tastes better than actual coconuts.
5. WF’s Tres Leche — has never let me down, ever.
Okay, I couldn’t narrow it down to five and had to throw in my final must:
6. Curried Chicken Salad — great for sandwiches, on a bed of greens or just as a snack. It also has scallions, currants and almonds for a nice change from your typical chicken salad.

First off I am not ever specifically shopping for organic or hormone free foods. I am just a hungry dude looking for good food.
This whole foods location is very convenient to me. It’s clean and well maintained with a decent selection of cheeses, wines, and meats. For whatever reason I enjoy the meat counter here versus other stores in the area (Mariano’s, Jewel Osco).
The staff is very friendly and seem to care about what they are doing generally speaking. The guys and gals at the meat and seafood counters are knowledgable about the products and make good suggestions.
They have some pretty cool desserts and the hot foods counter always looks presentable with appealing foods. They also have a pretty cool little bar on site called the engine room.
Overall this is nice grocer. The prices are decent maybe a touch on the expensive side but generally worth it. Also if you bring your own bag they’ll knock .10 off your bill.