According to the following article in the Chicago Tribune, the store is doing well:storewanderer wrote:Whole Foods has quite a few stores in the 30k square foot range that I've been into over the years. Most Wild Oats were that size or even smaller also. The stores are not as spacious as some of the others but they still seem to do a great business, probably better per square foot than the larger stores do. I think Whole Foods is a very smart operator and they will either do what they need to do to make this store work or convert it to a regular Whole Foods (won't be that hard since it looks like they are working with an empty shell of sorts).
Also I seem to remember a few years ago Whole Foods was being given a lot of cheers for opening a store in what was deemed a "poorer" area in was it Detroit area? And this store was supposedly to have lower prices, and less features, so it would better cater to the neighborhood? I wonder what happened to that?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/ct-detroi ... story.html
Their next foray into a poor neighborhood is scheduled to open this Fall in the Englewood section of Chicago.