Wild Oats

[turil.livejournal.com]

Whole Foods just took over the Wild Oats chain of health food stores. They say they will be closing the stores that are underperforming or that are very close to other Whole Foods stores. I have no idea if the Wild Oats back on Rt 16 (just behind Tufts, and just over the border into Medford) is an underperfoming one or may be deemed too close to the Fresh Pond store, but if it does close, that may be an interesting location to put a Trader Joes or maybe a big food coop...

It's currently not that easy to get to from Davis, since there are no public buses that run from Davis to Tufts, but it's within walking distance of Teele Square (about a mile), and is far closer to Davis than any other decent sized whole foods grocery stores.

Anyway, I just thought I'd mention it, since it might effect some Davis folks.

Comments

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I never got the impression that they underperformed. Any store that sells produce is going to have a plenty going bad -- it's a loss leader. Perhaps the problem is the way the place is managed, that they don't get rid of effectively enough.

I love Trader Joe's, but I'd much rather keep an all-purpose organic-type place around. TJ's is much cheaper for what they have, but there is too much they don't have for me to use them as my primary grocery. (The space wouldn't be too big for them, either.)