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05/06/2008: "Whole Foods Article"

I'm reading this Whole Foods article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The author seems to be lamenting that the Cleveland Heights store is better than the Pittsburgh store. Why? Well in part it's bigger.

In Cleveland, shoppers bag their habanero peppers in a produce section with room for 14 rows of bananas, choose from 24 rows of prepared meats, 22 rows of meat cuts and 11 rows of handmade sausage at the butcher's shop, after they dine on Risotto Di Giorno ($9) at a trendy restaurant counter.
This goes back to the Home Depot thing. If all you're going to buy is maybe five bananas at most, why does it matter if there are 14 rows of bananas? What matters is that there are bananas. Some of the smaller stores have more individual items than these larger stores that have many of the same item. That may not be the case with Whole Foods particularly, but generally true of big box stores. Still it's clear they're trying to impress with a large supply of a single item, which just makes the store needlessly large and hard to traverse.

Link to the article

Eric Miller, on 05.06.08 @ 04:03PST