I took the opportunity to go to the Lakeview store while visiting a friend on the north side. I'm a south side resident and closest to me are the Hyde Park and Englewood stores which are much smaller. I enjoyed the experience in the larger store with a wider choice of products to choose from. The ambiance was nice and I liked the layout where you can get coffee in a separate area avoiding the store if you're not interested in shopping.
When I was on my way here to grab a pie for a thing I was going to a rolled my ankle and skinned my knee pretty badly, when I got there I went to customer service and asked if they could help me. A guy there helped bandage my leg and helped me find what I needed.
Such a great selection, bought ribs there which are hard to find.
It's way over priced. I usually go here for lunch and given how huge the store is, I'm always disappointed in their selection.
I work there and it is huge. When I first step into the store it was overwhelmed but got adjusted. Love the breakfast.
Absolutely amazing experience they had a large variety of food and products
This place is HUGE. There is a bar and a cafe inside, plus A MOCHI ICE CREAM BAR! every employee is very friendly and eager to help :)
More like whole paycheck! Amirite? Lol. But seriously good cheese and they have wine for 3 bucks.
Without the help of the employee that goes by the name of Fin Fionnuala, (Hope I spell it right) my experience would of been a disaster! She helped me with every question I had with an answer so simple and satisfying. I will be now coming back often just for that reason!
Had a great time in the wine bar today trying flights, cheese plates and celebrating a wedding dress appointment day. Highly recommend the wine bar in back for small parties. Very accommodating, friendly staff! Consider the Wine Box for groups and daytime wine sampling!
I love this place!! The service is great and they have everything that I need. We cook a lot of Chinese, Indian, and Thai dishes and it is nice that they have what we need. I also LOVE their shredded cheese. It is more flavorful and melts very well.
High prices and don't carry standard national brands.
I hate whole foods but if you like them.....you're already goin
Really great organic marketplace and amazing restaurants.
Very good Whole Foods. The employees are nice and friendly. The bar has very good specials and good prices.
The prepared food at this location has been steadily getting worse, and rarely do they change it up. How come the food here does not look like the food I see on WF billboards though-out Chicago? The North Ave and Sauganash locations are MUCH better.
I think most patrons are of the opinion that since being acquired by Amazon, WF has been less about quality and more about volume, profit and stuffed animals. I used to think WF was a step above places like Jewel, Mariano's, etc. but honestly - given the higher prices at "Amazon Foods" I've begun to visit Mariano's and places like Harvest Time (awesome) more often. Caveat emptor...
This location tends to have everything but it does go out of stock at inopportune times. At least during covid. The curb side pickup isn't actually curb side and it doesn't seem like they're limiting patrons but in general it feels safe and is mostly dependable.
Not sure if Amazon really improved Whole Foods. Same old game, different owner! Noticed more people shopping there.
Nice location and get salad and food bars with nice selection
Love the prepared foods section, but be careful, it can get expensive
Favorite location! Big, Clean, logically organized, beautiful meat, seafood and breads at this location.
Loved this store when it opened. Now constantly out of items (herbs even the basics) and what happened to the grass fed beef - we have to go to the north avenue location to get it.
Service it s always attentive!
Great people and
Great products!
I'll have to agree with a couple of other reviews. The service is terrible here, leaving me with overpricing + terrible service= not convenient and not worthy of my time.
The level of ineptitude is just beyond me and I will walk a mile to Marianos before wasting my time here anymore.
Every time I get an instant offer to deliver from here on Amazon Flex, there is always something preventing it from being a smooth pickup.
Kind of sets a new bar for Whole Foods. This place is enormous, brightly lit, and spacious. The bottom floor is, oddly, just little cafes, so you always have to go up the escalators which is a tiny bit annoying. But the parking and accessibility is a huge relief compared to the previous Ashland location.
Doing A great job with public safety and keeping the shelves stocked during the pandemic.
Great selection. Super friendly and knowledgeable staff!
Honestly, I go here frequently and tonight I was disappointed by the cashier, she was very cold and rude. Carol, at the first register at 9:20 pm needs to have a hand/training in customer service.
I had a very long day, and my basket was full, I made the decision to go to a normal cashier that was close to the escalators vs self checkout at the other end. I d thought I through BEFORE I came to the register.
She told me to go to self check out, but not in a friendly way. I made the decision to come to this register, therefore you can do your job and check me out, and do so in a reasonable manor.
Needles to say I stayed, cause this is what I wanted to do. Then she proceeded to only bag a majority of my groceries and left the rest out and started helping the next customer, like why? Why couldn t you finish your job?
Carol, I get it you wanted to go home. Me too, but when I m at work, I do my job, I do it right and I do it till I m clocked out.
Ordered few times from this store for delivery. Always the avocado was bad. And the produce they pick are not good. Not satisfied with the products.waste of money.
Beware! This Whole Foods has everything imaginable in a multi-faceted food store: mochi, sushi, hot and cold bars,bakery, excellent selection of organic produce and frozen foods. I could go on and on but I only spent about 20 minutes there. Next trip will be longer and more costly, I'm afraid.
The great part about this is the easy parking that is attached to the store. its free
First time at that location of Whole Foods. Nice place, but as one moves to the back of the store the music was so excruciatingly loud, I abandoned my cart and left the store. I don't know why the music at the back of the store is so loud, but not in the rest of the store. The only thing I can think is a lot of refrigerated cases are noisy and music was meant to cover it. But hey, playing the song Brick House loud enough to shake the fillings in your teeth is not a good way of endearing yourself to customers.
I asked the manager why the music was so loud at the back of the store and not at the front of the store and the only thing he could tell me was it had to be that loud or the associates could not hear announcements. Did not make a lot of sense to me. Then he tried saying it was the acoustics of the store. Again if so loud in back and not loud at the front of the store, it just tells me that they need to fix their speaker system.
Larger whole foods. Lots of choices. Has a sitting area for lunch, and another with kids TV shows on. Old school video games, and a bar to work, read, or whatever.
This location allowed us to host a fundraiser that was wonderfully successful. Afterwards I did some shopping and the staff mirrored the management, helpful, attentive and polite. Plus what an amazing place to shop! Plenty of natural light and great parking for the city.
Humongous store! Nice parking lot with easy access to the shopping area. Really nice inside but the customer service is lacking.
The best Whole Foods in Chicago. I hate going to Whole Foods because of the long lines at the register and people everywhere. This location is pretty large and opens at 7am. I normally go pretty early to avoid people and with the size of this place, its perfect to get some grocery shopping done while safely socially distancing. Not something I can say about the other locations in the city. I like their prepped meals like sandwiches and the bakery has some decent donuts. I like the razzberry and hazelnut filled donuts.
Have to say I'm not a fan of the mega Whole Foods. The old smaller one was much more user friendly for me. Sure you gotta bigger selection, a wine room, cheese room, cafe ish area, and a bar but also just a lot of space. Feels like a warehouse, no fast running in, escalators take you upstairs where sales floor is. Overpriced like you expect. Not so great return policy. Couldn't even exchange unopened bottle of vitamins.
The brand-new flagship Whole Foods that opened recently to replace the smaller, established store does not disappoint. Complete with coffee roasting facility, restaurants, and a large amount of dining and study area. Yeah, you'll want to make this you're new fave WFM.
Great organic food market from drinks to pastries and salad bar to soups. Staff was friendly and very helpful. I come to this location for lunch sometimes with co workers and sometimes alone and I love it.
Huge store. If you don t like the crowd, go to the Whole Foods on Halsted and Addison
Definitely pricey and wouldn't get all my groceries here- but super nice store and friendly staff. Really nice to have just across the street and in such a convenient location
Fancy Whole Foods has everything the old location had, but a lot more space! Not to mention all the amenities
The new flagship store on the North Side. Massive. Ain't nothing you can't find here. Booze right on down to "organic" slippers. Now if only we could ditch all the overly entitled hipsters shopping there.
Almost perfect grocery store, wish I lived closer to it
I just got sternly reprimanded by the checkout person for buying 15 items in the quick check out line. I was told by her that she would check me out "this time" but in the future I would have to have 10 items or less. All of my items fit in half a paper bag. There was not a person in line behind me. So my advice to you if you really feel you have to shop at this high handed, over priced grocery store is to make sure you count those items in your cart. But I'm finished with it--it's gone to hell anyway, and why put up with this.
This is a splendid whole foods location. This is possibly the BIGGEST store in the entire midwest. Only thing I don't like is how unnecessarily expensive everything is.
Thank you to the very kind, hard-working staff working the day before Thanksgiving! They had to run all over the store for the holiday meal pick up and they all deserve a raise.
This new Whole Foods has pretty much everything you need and for me in a great location. The wine and bar areas are nice with plenty of seating available.
They should call this Whole Check. Prices are outrageous and people inside all seem to act like they enjoy being ripped off because they are saving the planet. Far better places to shop without being robbed. Save money and donate it to an organization that may actually do something for the planet or community.
