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.

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ecshafer 14 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

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bombcar 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

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mangodrunk 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Can you share some examples in gaps of staples?

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0xffff2 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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ceejayoz 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	mangodrunk 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		True. That would be nice if they had more typical pharmacy items.