Wfm Coffee - Providence

Drove from Massachusetts South Coast to shop at Whole Foods on Providence. We have always loved their food quality. Splurged and bought shrimp, also some Korean meatballs, curried chicken salad, and ministrone soup. The shrimp were disappointing with poor flavor. The meatballs had a spicy aftertaste, but little other flavor at all. We threw them away. The chicken salad had more veggies than chicken and was full of sugar. Terrible. Pitched that too. We were so hungry, that we ate the soup, but it wasn't good. If we didn't live so far from the store we would have brought it all back. We are done with Whole Foods. What a shame that Amazon ruined such a great store.

We used to be regular shoppers at Whole Foods and still wish we could. However, since Amazon purchased and made available online shopping the experience is unbearable. Arguably shopping here is the single worst experience of any retail store we have used. The store is full of hired shoppers clogging aisles and making the entire experience horrible. To make matters worse, the increased volume requires that the shelves be constantly restocked which adds even more people and delays. It is a shame that this once-great store has tuned into a nightmare.

This is the Whole Foods I do my weekly shopping in. Normally I enjoyed shopping here but as of late it's become bothersome. The wait lines to check out have grown longer than TSA lines at the airports. I still like the meats, produce, cheese and other selections. I don't care that they were acquired by Amazon and I don't care how much they charge for certain products. What's drawing my away is waiting sometimes 20 to 30 minutes and it's not only because they have a few people upfront, those who do work upfront work at a snails pace. Whole Foods you haven't lost me yet, but if this business continues it downward trend I will be going elsewhere.

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.