Whole Foods Market - Chapel Hill

Had a great lunch date with friends Sunday. Saturday, I utilized this Whole Foods Market, to return some items to Amazon. That's right; you can pickup and return items to Amazon. Whole Foods Market offers many different services: deli, imported food items, bakery, meats, seafood, vegan and vegetarian food. And great Service.

Do your own shopping for Whole Foods' fresh produce. I do enjoy shopping in person at Whole Foods on Elliot St. in Chapel Hill but I would not recommend using their personal shoppers for fresh fruits and vegetables. I don't know if it is a company policy to bag the produce that no one else would purchase given the choice, or the the personal shoppers just blindly pick something without any care for what it looks or feels like. A friend in California says he has had the same experience with Whole Foods.

Whole foods offers the best selection of organic, non-GMO, and fresh foods. Also, whenever I'm there, 100% of the customers and employees are wearing masks, unlike other establishments. I also like that it is tied to Amazon, so my charity benefits through smile.amazon.com.

I loved this place and I really hope to love it again. but in recent years, while the rest of the world seems vegan friendly, the chapel hill whole foods has become less and less. which makes me hardly sense, because so many other foods are incredibly vegan friendly. they have removed so much from salat and the hot bar that was vegan. now there are no vegan breakfast options on all left no veggie meat, no tofu scramble, nothing. the standby oatmeal is still there, I guess. they have even drawn many vegan popular items from the regals that they can find in regular food stores. they even dropped the quite regular vegan baked food options. I'm not sure why, but it's such a bummer. I would like to change this assessment sometime.

Always has delicious vegan options in the hot bar, salad bar and deli. On work days, I can run by and get a quick healthy lunch. At the hot bar, there are always at least 3 vegan protein options, sometimes more (other local WF sometimes have zero options so this is a huge plus). They use local produce and have their own GF bakery. I have eaten here since it was Wellspring back in the 70's and even through all the expansions have found it a warm, inviting and healthy place to take a pause.