New Whole Foods

Just yesterday, the brand-new Whole Foods opened in north Montrose, which is just west of downtown Houston. This is pretty close to where we live, and so that's great. The previous closest Whole Foods on Kirby at West Alabama (about 5 miles from our house) was just impossible. The parking lot for that store is not that large, and it is ALWAYS full of cars. So many cars that they spill over on the streets all around the store, so we could hardly ever even get inside that store.

For this new store, they built a much-larger parking lot, HOWEVER, on opening day, it was insane. I didn't try to go, and will probably stay away for a couple of weeks until things die down a bit. It seems that people can't wait to spend more money on food than they would at Kroger, Randalls, Fiesta or HEB. I can wait.

CRAZINESS AT THE NEW WHOLE FOODS

For some reason, people really get excited about new grocery stores. While the media and customers have been gushing about the new Whole Foods at West Dallas and Waugh… security on AIG’s campus was scrambling to keep shopping mom’s from illegally parking in parking garages and on streets. The original plans for the Whole Foods involved having an underground parking garage… but they decided later that a surface parking lot would be sufficient.

So just how long will these crowds remain? Time will only tell, but if parking is anything like other Whole Foods… they may soon be regretting their decision to scrap that garage.

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