Whole Foods in London?
Whole Foods, the Austin grocery store of infinite lovelyness, is coming to London it seems.
Now Whole Foods is coming to Britain: a "European flagship" shop opens in London in June, on three floors in the former Barkers department store in Kensington. At more than 80,000 sq ft, it will be the largest food store in the city centre. If it does well, there will be "a lot more", according to Mackey. With this move, Whole Foods will enter the vicious fight that is British supermarket retailing right at the battleground's heart - the conscience-struck consumer.
Never mind the fact that they're opening it in the god-forsaken corner of London that is Kensington (no offense, camillat & silverjet_allie), which probably means that my chances of affording ANYTHING they carry is nil. *le sigh*
We still need to find a good fishmonger closer to home, though. There's something about carting fish half-way across the city on public transport that would probably earn me no friends.
Now Whole Foods is coming to Britain: a "European flagship" shop opens in London in June, on three floors in the former Barkers department store in Kensington. At more than 80,000 sq ft, it will be the largest food store in the city centre. If it does well, there will be "a lot more", according to Mackey. With this move, Whole Foods will enter the vicious fight that is British supermarket retailing right at the battleground's heart - the conscience-struck consumer.
Never mind the fact that they're opening it in the god-forsaken corner of London that is Kensington (no offense, camillat & silverjet_allie), which probably means that my chances of affording ANYTHING they carry is nil. *le sigh*
We still need to find a good fishmonger closer to home, though. There's something about carting fish half-way across the city on public transport that would probably earn me no friends.