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Who knew that Whole Foods was a den of illegal alchoolic beverage sales? Well, NY State, for one. The wine store at the Whole Foods at Columbus Circle's Time Warner Center/Mall has shuttered because it did not have a separate entrance. Wine shops are supposed to have a separate entrance, and the Whole Foods management were probably saying, "Damnit! We should have known there was something wrong with this basement setup!" to themselves. The wine shop's license will be transferred to the Whole Foods that's set to open on East Houston Street; the wine store will have its separate entrance on Chrystie Street. The NY Times reports that Whole Food "will use the space in the Time Warner store for an expanded coffee bar, a gelato counter and more checkout lines." While we love us some coffee and gelato, Gothamist votes for more checkout lines. Gothamist always forgets that when we go to the Time Warner Center Whole Foods that the lines suck. First of all, they don't move that fast. Second, they snake so long that it's all we can do to not drop our grocery baskets and run out of the store crying.
What do you think of the Whole Foods at Columbus Circle? And Gothamist on grocery stores: The fight between Fairway, Whole Foods and Freshdirect; the new Union Square Whole Foods; and Bill Jones, our favorite Whole Foods employee.
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thank goodness for the government. otherwise we'd be able to enter a wine shop from a grocery store and next thing you know the terrorists have won/nobody thought about the children.
The Whole Foods @ CC is pretty nice. I don't go there too much at the risk of being runned down by someone and their two-tier shopping cart. It gets pretty wreckless in there.
Crying? How about screaming?
This is one of those rare times that calling your state senator/assemblymember might be of use. New York's laws are retarded (no liquor sold before 11am Sunday!?), and out of sync with what is done in other civilized places. In California you can buy vodka at the grocery store and I'd be shocked if teens are much more prone to drinking there than here.
i fear that the real reason this law isn't changed is that the liquor store owners will yell and scream that grocery stores are "unfair competition" and prevent any thoughtful reconsideration of this stupid law.
I hate the CC Whole Foods. I feel like a rat in an underground maze. It appears to be laid out so you have to traverse the greatest amount of floor space to actually get to anything you might want, as Whole Foods generously exposes you to the most impulse buys they can set up. And then there are those checkout lines. I usually just run out screaming before I even get there. And the one in Chelsea is so nicely laid out. Why didn't they just copy the design?
The WF in Union Sq has a pretty quick checkout time... but the rest of the store is a total maze. I hate going in there.
Whole Foods at CC has an amazing body section -- better than the actual body store at Chelsea. But you have to be a masochist to try to weave your way over there through the shopping cart checkout lineup. That's a wicked place. I've seen fights start there... no kidding
The trick is to hit the store at the right times. Try before 11 AM most weekdays. What's that? You have to work? So sorry no organic goodness without a 30 mintue line for you.
Honestly I don't get the WF fascination. Okay the store is pretty, but it's also expensive. Go to Fairway people! The produce is usually better and cheaper, the meat is waaaaay less expensive, and the lines actually move.
I will say this for WF though. Their frozen veggies are the best I've ever had. For that alone I make the morning trek to CC once a week or so.
In my area of Brooklyn, some wine stores are open on Sunday afternoons now. Does anyone know if the law changed or there was a loophole?
I definitely am reluctant to shop at the CC store because of the lines. If i only want a few things, i usually decide its not worth the 10 minute wait online.
Does anyone know when the Houston whole foods is gonna open?
I think Whole Foods is a misnomer - I can rarely ever find organic fruits and vegetables there that I want - they only ever have "conventional" ones (euphemism) which I can get anywhere.
I think the upstairs of Fairway has a much better selection, but both Fairway and the CC WF are insanely aggravating - old women who don't know where they are going and uptight yuppies who want to push them out of the way.
I wish there was a better Organic outlet for those of us in the L.I.C./Astoria area. Going into Manhattan for that kind of pain usually just sucks.
Overpriced yuppie food. Bring back Bohacks.
Why did it take the New York Times so long to report this? It's been closed for at least two weeks now, and it's not like hundreds of people didn't file past that CLOSED sign in the interim. Doesn't any NYT staffer shop there?
Unfortunately, Whole Foods was not created for Manhattan. I've shopped at Whole Foods for most of my life, and have loved every second of it, but the stores in Manhattan are cramped and maze-like. You wanna know why people love Whole Foods? Go to a real one, outside of the city somewhere. It's a completely different experience. One that you'll actually leave smiling about.
PS - I have a hard time believing the above comment about not being able to find organic produce at a Whole Foods... what on earth are you looking for? if WF doesn't have it organic, not too many other places will
PPS - Yuppie food? You're just jaded because it's a popular place to go... that doesn't mean that the company has any less integrity. Get over your own coolness. WF started as a single store co-op style store in Austin. I think they've done an amazing job of keeping that spirit alive in their stores. Trader Joe's is the only other chain that even comes close.
Re: organic fruits and veggies..
You have to keep in mind that because it is Organic, it is ONLY avalible during it's season.. Sometimes in December, there are just not a lot of things avalible..
WF CC's cashiers just take forever and move their hands so slow. Seems like the lines are another psychological trick, longer your stay inline, the more you will like what you buy. I wonder if WF has a patent on their store designs, if not other supermarkets really have to start doing as WF does, then again, I havnt been to any non-manhatten WFs ever, so maybe the fact that there is so much impulse and prepared food at WF CC is simply because the local population simply doesnt want to cook and WF is catering to the market.