Wfm Coffee - Providence

Avoid at all costs! 7:30 on a Wednesday night and most of the aisles are jammed with order pickers and angry-looking customers waiting to check out. The checkout lines stretch all the way to the back of the store. Seems like only two or three registers are open.

The lines have gotten incredibly long and there's no excuse for that--they need more people working at the checkout counter. To save a few pennies they make us all wait and then they start losing customers.

I had to order the cashier to wear her mask correctly and she sneered at me as a Black customer. Additionally, I was given low quality customer service in comparison to the white woman who was in front of me.

The shopping experience is awful since amazon took over. The fact that people can order groceries online is great, but the grocery store became an amazon fulfillment center with kids picking and packing online orders all over the place. You can't even walk. As much as I wanted to love ordering my groceries online, produce is something I rather pick myself as well as flowers and meats. How about you have warehouse spaces dedicated to fulfilling online orders instead of this mess at your grocery stores?

My goal is not only to write reviews about the 500 Whole Foods locations in the world, but to try the Allegro coffee at each one of them. I have tried maybe 50 locations so far in my history in the US and Canada. This one looks nice from outside, but it's so packed inside. It makes it so hard to be COVID-compliant. Not sure if people liked to touch me here or the hallways are so narrow. We struggled to keep our distance. The best about this location was the fresh flowers and the seafood. Kudos to the seafood section because I saw one of my favorite fish, grouper! All groupers were gone when we visited again. Due to stupid COVID, they closed their Allegro coffee bar, so I didn't get to try their hot coffee as usual. I bought Hario coffee filters which was great to find.