Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Whole Foods in Alexandria

We have been waiting impatiently for the new Whole Foods store to open up in our neighborhood. It will be about two blocks away from us near the Navy Yard/ Yards Park. We usually don’t go to Whole Foods for groceries. But since we became Amazon Prime members it made sense to give it a try. We went to the store in Alexandria after lunch today. We were there about ten years ago to buy a head of cabbage and never went back. But now we have an incentive. The store in our neighborhood will be ten years newer, so I’m sure it will be ten times nicer. Whole Foods has a lot of brands we aren’t familiar with and we generally don’t care for organic or gluten free foodstuffs. We were more interested to see the fruit, the bread, and the cheese. I think the fruit and cheese were great - especially since they had our favorite P’tit basque. We haven’t bought flowers for awhile hoping our garden would substitute. But that hasn’t happened this year so we got a nice bunch. The olive bar was fine but the bread didn’t win us over. I can see this might be a good place to pick up things in between our regular shopping at Harris Teeter or Safeway. But perhaps the new store will have more appeal. I like the idea of getting discounts on groceries, and the cherries we picked up were a real deal. Let’s hope they taste as good as they look! At the register you scan for additional savings using the iPhone app. If we like it enough we may one day buy a cart to drag around and haul the goods. I found the perfect one on Amazon of course. 


























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