Subsidizing Englewood
We don't shop at Whole Foods - it's way too expensive for our budget. But if you do manage to spend money there, now you can feel extra good about yourself!
- ENGLEWOOD — You might want to skip your local Whole Foods and head to Englewood the next time you go grocery shopping.
When plans were announced to open a Whole Foods in Englewood, a South Side food desert, officials said prices would be more affordable. On Wednesday, when the doors finally opened, the store put its money where its mouth is.
Compared to prices at the Whole Foods' Lincoln Park location at 1550 N. Kingsbury St., prices on many Englewood Whole Foods items were far cheaper.
The differences are significant.
- Eggs are $1.99 in Englewood vs $3.099 in Lincoln Park
- Milk is $1.99 vs $4.19
- Gallon of vanilla ice cream $3.99 vs $5.99
There's a whole chart - it might be worth it for the Lincoln Park Trixies to get their Concealed Carry Licenses and head to Englewood to do some shopping. In any event, there's no way the corporate parent company can make anything close to their "per store" target numbers with these prices. Either they're going up in short order or Whole Foods is operating at a loss so Rahm gets to say he has cured the "food desert" on the south side.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
101 Comments:
This doesn't suprise me one bit, whole foods is full of liberal hippies that want to save the world. Now they can by paying twice as much for their organic veggies.
Black privilege ????
Stupid bullshit paying for itself, courtesy of you northside liberal
Ironic then that Rahm found his $5+ smoothie "a bit pricey."
You have to go shopping in pairs . One inside the store and another to stay with the car... You know, just so you can get home.
How did neighborhoods like Englewood become "food deserts" in the first place?
In almost every instance, grocery chains pulled out of such communities due to looting, arson, and more retail thefts than the accountants would allow.
Fucking racist garbage. I will never shop there again. Un-fucking-believable.
My neighbor shops at Whole Foods in Norridge, he'll be glad to know that his purchases are helping out the hood to get quality food.
Hmmm,
Do they have special parking for people with luxury cars? I'm not like some of my friends who get a Handicapped Sticker so they get a "premium spot" for their Rolls or Bentley.
Those prices almost make you want to drive down there but, that neighborhood isn't where us Howells usually cruise into.
Maybe I should borrow my friend's Bentley??
I hear they use a lot of them in those Rap videos and they really are impressed if you drive up in "a Bee". That's "rap" for a Bentley, you know.
Although, if I take my Rolls, they might think I am one of the Duke & Duke Brothers, but then I would have to come out saying, "Whiskey, ALL you want!" and that might be pushing it just to get some cheaper milk and eggs for Lovey. Share my aged scotch and bourbon? I don't think so.
And all of you think a Howell has got it easy.
Oh well, I am closer to Wisconsin anyway. 5% tax up there you know?
A Howell never pays a tax they think is outrageous! Cook County should renamed Nottingham.
Anyone else catch the debates? When Hillary - that lying scoundrel - talked about taxes and accused Trump - that lovable, brash rogue - of not paying any and he said, "Yeah, because I'm smart!"
EGADS, he got my support and vote right there!!!
The taxpayer foots the bill anyway when they whip out the LINK card to payoff the "discounted" over-priced food at Whole Foods. I give it a year and soon the doors will close because the losses will be too great.
NYAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Buffy and Bradley doing a day-trip to go
slumming at (Bullet-)Hole Foods
in Englehood?
"We saw BLACK people today!
UP CLOSE!"
Friends say in awe:
"OMG! WHERE!"
"On SIXTY-THIRD Street!"
"OMG! I didn't know the numbered streets in
Chicago went that high!"
>Pffft! Snicker!<
Some more "Native Chicagoans"
(just like the Pant-Suited Prevaricator)
having "street cred" conferred upon them.
Oh well... We're amused by the MANY
instances of Englehoodians going to
Lincoln Park and other points north
to engage in shopping and cultural exchange
of a different sort.
"Check it in bitch!"
>WHAP!<
"Uhhhhh! You didn't have to SLAP me in my
EYE to take my new $700.00 adult busy-box/
communication and entertainment device!"
All day, every damned day.
Diversity embraces the soft and clueless...
"You old Cops are just so mean, cynical
and nasty tempered for no good reason!"
Gee thanks. We earned the right to be that way...
Disgusting absolutely fucking disgusting.
Aldi's shopper here. I always take a knee before I bag my own stuff - you know oppression & all ...
With lower operating expenses such as rent and tax subsidies they can afford to operate with lower profit margins. Just goes to show what the mark up is at the regular stores.
With lower operating expenses such as rent and tax subsidies they can afford to operate with lower profit margins. Just goes to show what the mark up is at the regular stores.
I'm sure if Mariano's opened a discounted pricing store in Barrington Hills, Mary Mitchell would have a stroke before she could get the story written.
No double standards here. Move along
i will get my link card ready.
I read that Whole Foods in Englewood is tax payer subsidized.
Me personally I never shop there but, I'd absolutely jump on an organized shopping spree (people loading on busses) and head over to take advantage of those discriminatory low prices!!
I always felt really bad about those folks living in a food desert. They are always on the verge of dying of starvation, and look it. Pictures of them, they are always all skin and bones, and the little kids, skinny as sticks with those big bellies from eating grass, leaves and the bark off trees. I am glad to hear the Whole Foods is getting food shipments into one of Chicago's food deserts.
And you KNEW this nonsensical spin was coming...
Chicago Fibune:
-Editorial-
"What If Englewood became the new Hyde Park?
A battered neighborhood dreams."
Dreams?
In Englewood?
>Ring!<
(Courtesy phone, Mistuh Neanderthal!)
DREAMS?
"De-Fund Da Po-leece an' give US da money!"
(aka Reparations or BUST!)
THOSE dreams...
Right?
Well shit now...
Those yellow-pinky, liberal rattle-minds
over at the U.N. are all in on on making
America "pay."
Especially since D.T. scared the shit
out of those poofters in Geneva when he
started talking about turning off the U.S.
money spigot and making them pay their fair share.
Rahm will bankrupt this city by trucking tons of taxpayer treasure
to Englewood then lighting it on fire out of spite.
The relentless pursuit of pandering.
Racism at its best, charge hard working whites more while we charge black welfare recipients less
Can Rahm please explain exactly how the 63rd and Halsted area was a "food desert" when there's been an Aldi exactly two blocks away on 63rd and Lowe for the past twenty five years?
And the locals will still shoplift and judges will toss the charges.
I don't care one way or another. I'll shop there just to save a few bucks. I'll be armed, of course. Not Whole Paycheck any more, bitches!
Hey, Ain't Communism Great ? Now just shut up and pay, pay, pay. It's only the beginning.
No, that's just what prices could and should be if they weren't fleecing the working class white folk in affluent neighborhoods. Which is exactly why everyone that works and pays cash for their groceries should boycott the shit out of Whole Foods. Talk about racism.
Whole foods did not get much of my family's business.
But I can assure you they will get none now.
I think we pay enough to support the ghetto now.
Vote Trump
I guess Aldi or Jewels isn't good enough for the 13%. Whole Foods has a nice tax shelter there for the gibs crowd. Meanwhile, I'll keep working 2, sometimes 3 jobs to pay for my kid's needs.
We are supporting the discounts. As usual.
Crains. April 2014. -
The City Council has signed off on a $10.7 million grant that will support development of a 48,000-square-foot retail property anchored by Whole Foods Markets Inc. in Englewood.
The council approved the tax-increment financing (TIF) subsidy at the council meeting today, according to a statement issued by Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration.
Austin, Tex.-based Whole Foods, known for its organic grocery options, has agreed to open an 18,000-square-foot store at the northwest corner of 63rd and Halsted streets in Englewood.
A venture between the local real estate firms Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Inc. and DL3 Realty are developing the retail property in the South Side neighborhood.
The TIF subsidy will pay for foundations for four commercial buildings the developers will create on the property, including the store housing the Whole Foods, according to the mayor's office.
"The Whole Foods store will facilitate economic growth in the neighborhood, creating jobs and expanding access to quality and affordable food," Mr. Emanuel said in the statement.
Profits be damned, the Whole Foods organization actually thinks they are saving the world by providing Englewood residents with organic arugula. But alas, this experiment will fail too. You can't save people that don't want to be saved.
CHOMPSTATS - Just more BS, and the media just gobbles it up. How about you compare a loaf of bread at the Englewood Wholefood with a loaf of bread at the local Jewel. I give the store 6 months.
Of course Whole Foods is operating the Englewood store at a loss. It will never make a profit even at reduced prices for poor people. It is in part pay back to Rahm but the Trixies and Metromen will feel better helping the poor people. Their professors would be proud of them and now mothers in Highland Park can blab to their neighors during bunko or bridge their children are making a difference in the city and she is so proud of them.
I may go over there just to see if the store has the usual group of young women at the entrance offering to buy my food with their SNAP card in exchange for cash so they can buy "pampers" for the baby
yes, but are the flamin hot cheetos and sugar laden Arizonia iced tea comparable?!? cause thats whats going to sell out first
They are going to charge substantially less for items, they are going to be littered with shop lifters and hold ups. Not to mention the issue they'll have keeping employees. This should work out really well.
Who cares it will be looted, burned or shut down in thee years. Here is a statistic I wish we could find out. What is going to be the average financial loss to this engelhood store compared to any other store in chicago?
Funny thing is those prices are still high compared to Walmart and Aldi.
Does any one remember a movie theater at Roosevelt and Kedzie? A bunch of rich guys thinking they invented the wheel.There was a Star buck was there too right down the street from the covert black site Homan Square!
You, the taxpayer, are subsidizing their loss. Not at cost, but at their profit margin at a regular store.
don't forget the "loss" (shoplifting) factor. I'm sure it will be astronomical . you know, cause they are entitled to it
Given Whole Foods history, each gallon of milk is actually 3.5 quarts and two of the dozen eggs are from pigeons.
Honey, I saved $65.00 b shopping at the Englewood Whole Foods but I got robbed in the parking lot AND they took the Lexus.
Actually it's not funny when you realize that everyone at every other Whole Foods is subsidizing the Englewood Whole Foods, so you pay more. But I bet these cuckolds like it.
Why shop there? There are a ton of supermarkets out there with lower prices. If you shop there then don't complain. as far as puting more stores in the getto, that's great. Keeps them in the neighborhood and not ours.
Whole Foods was recently called out in the press for over pricing their food.
what govt agency(ies) / politicians are buying off Whole Paycheck?
And they'll still bitch about not having enough resources
I like Lincoln Park Trixies.
exactly what I was thinking ... fuck whole foods ... now even the capitalists are practicing back-door socialism
Can we subsidize the Happy Foods up in 16th District?
The closed Dominick's and Mariano's is as high as Whole Check or Trader Joe's
Eveentually they'll fucking blame republicans and capitalism when this idea bombs and ends up not sustainable.
AND/OR they will start asking people for IDs to prove they live in the Englewood area. If you live in Lincoln Park or Bucktown, you better get there now and cash in on it.
***************
A message to my liberal friends who have their heads buried in the sand.
When will you learn you can't bring something nice to a shit hole and expect it will turn things around???
This is like a hail mary pass at the end of a loosing football game. It's not going work even if someone catches the ball - the game has already been lost. Englewood and the west side is lost. Don't you fucking get it?!! There needs to be a biblical flood in Englewood, Garfield Park, Austin and all these areas. Destruction needs to take place. And we need to start from scratch.
It's like a tear down building that is falling apart. Don't try and repair it. Tear the damn thing down and build anew.
Okay end rant.
One last thing. Rahm, you're an asshole. We know you and Eddie read these comments just like you and Garry did.
They will just jack prices up in other stores to make up for their loss in "Bulletwhole" foods in Englewood . Once again we pay and GET NOTHING......
Somebody has to be subsidizing this Whole Foods so it can maintain it's profits. I'll still be frequenting the Whole Foods in Hinsdale when I have a few bucks.
1.00am. Where is the Whole Foods in Norridge
You can't fool with the "invisible hand" of the economy. Bad things happen when you try to tweak the free market by putting stores in crime ridden food deserts.
Buffy and Biff meet the ghetto rats in their environment. meaningful cultural exchange.
fivebucks coffee and hole in the pocket foods also taxpayer subsidised. the democratic party plan of free enterprise.
Ok, I shop at Whole Paycheck (but also Mariano's). Only a fool would believe that the savings from lower prices at the Englewood store isn't being made up by other stores. I'm by no means a "liberal hippie" who feels good about "saving" this neighborhood. If the residents in that area don't want to help themselves, then it never will improve. Never.
And...I don't believe WF sells flamin' hot Cheetos...
--No Cop Here
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/foods-suppliers-defend-prison-labor/story?id=34258597
What is the tax break they were given, I am sure they are making more money in englewood
All you all are so mean and nasty. Have you ever lived in a food desert it's a terrible thing everyone is skinny as can be with flies landing on them constantly it's not pretty sight. The citizens would have to drive their Lexus, Mercedes,cadillac,hummer,audi to another location for food and that would not be acceptable.
Ahem...please explain the 2nd & 3rd watch fixed post cars is this new strip mall. Is this not privately owned businesses? And the city is footing the difference in pricing, go figure.
So does this mean you can pay the lower prices at the other Whole Foods? Isn't this called DISCRIMINATION?
I suspect Whole Foods hasn't really done its due diligence. The hood doesn't care about organic food, they want EASY food, preferably with a lot of fat, salt and sugar. People who give Koolaid to their infants do not buy arugula and kale.
I am an Aldi shopper. Until recently (when they built a suburban Aldi nearer to my rural home) I had to head into the city to stock up on groceries there once a month or so. The organic foods were always on clearance, nobody bought them. I loved it because it helped me score a lot of deals, but clearly, this was the result of slow sales. Good for me, bad for the store.
I don't see this at the suburban Aldi. In fact, I've learned to stock up when I see an organic special I like, because they sell out fast.
Whole Food had better start carrying organic Cheetohs and Gatorade or it will lose its shirt.
When the fad fades and retail thefts start flowing in then reality will set in then they will shut down. This is the whole reason there are no grocery stores in Englewood. Shame is that the honest people that live in the community will suffer like they always have.
Is Whole Foods keeping prices artificially low in Englewood so that black shoppers stay out of white areas? That's racist!!!!
Working class people of less pigmented skin colors risking their lives shopping at Englewood's Whole Foods should be charged Lincoln Park prices. Those subsidized special savings are only for the people and folks of the "community".
How are there prices on .40 S&W?
SCC said: "There's a whole chart - it might be worth it for the Lincoln Park Trixies to get their Concealed Carry Licenses and head to Englewood to do some shopping. In any event, there's no way the corporate parent company can make anything close to their "per store" target numbers with these prices. Either they're going up in short order or Whole Foods is operating at a loss so Rahm gets to say he has cured the "food desert" on the south side."
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No. Muffy and Biff should just sue the pants off Whole Foods for racial profiling and having two sets of prices for identical items, with the only difference being the racial make-up of each neighborhood.
I find this to be hugely offensive.
Now isn't that sweet. Those that work and have to pay taxes so the welfare weenies can get food stamps, Medicaid, Section 8 housing etc now will be subsidizing them through our private purchases. We have shopped at Whole Foods in our area, but will never darken their doors again. And I am telling all my friends.
Hit them where it hurts, in sales and profits.
Two years I give it. Then there will be a "Greek fire"
Whole foods isn't operating at a loss because northsider s pay inflated prices for everything, Don't shop there and prices will drop. Typical cubs fans
I would not be surprised that products which are not sold or past expiration dates at the HoeFoods Kingsburg location are air dropped into Englewoods. The only thing that could be delivered (via armed caravan, during daylight hours) would be Jolly Ranchers, baby formula and deodorant. Everything else probably is overstock, discontinued or damaged container items. Just a fancy big box corner store that will not know what to do if they see any actual paper money instead of that EBT LINK.
Rahm shelled out $10 mil to level the property where it stands, so really a lot of subsidy was from the pockets of the Kingsbury customers.
Yes, "a bit pricey" for a doomed effort. Just ask Sears Roebuck.
A venture between the local real estate firms Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Inc. and DL3 Realty are developing the retail property in the South Side neighborhood.
Who is DL3 realty?
Why the CPD should be subsidized by Sports Teams:
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/la-police-threaten-further-action-if-not-paid-to-staff-usc-games-232313968.html
Don't forget the phony slip and fall lawsuits.
are they going to open a mariano's too?
at this rate the hood is going to look like downtown Naperville, yeahhh rightttt
There is an Aldi store, two blocks East on 63rd street from that Whole Foods!
I guess that ain't good enough anymore in da hood!
Just wait until the hood turns its attention on Whole Foods when its their turn to Furguson, Charlotte or Me-Li-Wah-Kay. While their looting they can refresh themselves with a large latte from Starpukes!
Not if, but when.
Stay Fetal
WTF?
Isn't the "community" getting enough perks already?
Anonymous Thurston Howell III said...
Hmmm,
Do they have special parking for people with luxury cars? I'm not like some of my friends who get a Handicapped Sticker so they get a "premium spot" for their Rolls or Bentley.
Those prices almost make you want to drive down there but, that neighborhood isn't where us Howells usually cruise into.
Maybe I should borrow my friend's Bentley??
I hear they use a lot of them in those Rap videos and they really are impressed if you drive up in "a Bee". That's "rap" for a Bentley, you know.
Although, if I take my Rolls, they might think I am one of the Duke & Duke Brothers, but then I would have to come out saying, "Whiskey, ALL you want!" and that might be pushing it just to get some cheaper milk and eggs for Lovey. Share my aged scotch and bourbon? I don't think so.
And all of you think a Howell has got it easy.
Oh well, I am closer to Wisconsin anyway. 5% tax up there you know?
A Howell never pays a tax they think is outrageous! Cook County should renamed Nottingham.
Anyone else catch the debates? When Hillary - that lying scoundrel - talked about taxes and accused Trump - that lovable, brash rogue - of not paying any and he said, "Yeah, because I'm smart!"
EGADS, he got my support and vote right there!!!
They would love you to bring your Bentley.
It'll be a shell of itself by the time you're done shopping.
The local miscreants would be practicing wealth redistribution.
Haha just think of all the ot given due to felony food upgrades, I think I will bid to Englewood! That's going to be the place to be when vri is closed down!
You can't discriminate against WHITE people.
Charge them all you want, they will pay with their American Express Cards.
The Englewood residents will pay with LINK Cards.
And who pays for those.
I do my shopping for groceries in Elmwood Park and Melrose Park where the sales tax on food drops to 2.25% not over 9% like it is in Chicago and no parking hassles.
Moo, Oink and Peep to relocate to Highland Park.
Call it what it really is, discrimination. That's right, I said discrimination. But it's people with jobs being discriminated against now.
I'm so sick of how this city caters to certain people at the same time those very people are preaching how they just want to be treated equally. What a joke.
The biggest question here is wiil they have the same selection of beer as the other Whole Foods? I'm tired of the Park Ridge store only getting one case of Zombie dust per week, and only selling a six pack per customer.
Or as what usually happens other people are going to be supporting the felons ticks deadbeats dopers and welfare mommies with increased cost at other stores
Anonymous Anonymous said...
1.00am. Where is the Whole Foods in Norridge
9/30/2016 08:55:00 AM
its in the part of Norridge that extends into Park Ridge
So it's become Aldi?
FYI, Aldi has percentage-wise the same number of organix as Whole Paycheck and lots more reasonable at that. I was wondering how many pints of organic blueberries one can fit on a LINK card.....
Nobody mentions that Whole Foods got special tax deals from Rahm to come there so Rahm can pander to the criminals on the south and west sides so he can get votes. Just like he panders to the protesters, activists, reverends and BLM to insure his reelection. He along with the anti cop tribune is doing everything in their power to destroy this city and give it to those who refuse to work.
Reading the comments on this site is proof that Elijah was right.
It will be one of the first places looted on election night when Trump is declared the winner.
With all this dismal weather and rotten news this should give you a smile.
It is what could happen at Whole Foods.
Maybe in Lincoln Park, Maybe in River.
I just can't see it happening in Englewood.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/JNgCM7zp30M?version=3&start=1&end=198&autoplay=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
No do not go to Englewood store , want lower prices Boycott the Lincoln Park Store .
Why is Whole Foods really in Englewood?
Build it and they will come.
I am thinking that one of Obama's plans is that exclusive expensive white suburbs should be invaded and occupied and settled by inner city African Americans and hordes of new Middle Eastern immigrants.
He wants to eliminate rules about minimum lot spaces, minimum quality of single family homes. Communities that do not comply will be driven broke by not being given federal funds and costly court battles. Englewood residents will be invited to relocate to Kenilworth, Section 8 and all.
So where do the rich and displaced go? To the new luxury communities that will be built in Englewood and on the Westside of Chicago by the Daley/Vaneko Real Estate Consortium.
Stay Safe. Register and Vote Trump.
Look back to the 50,60,early 70's
many grocery stores and retail shopping in the ghetto
it was not a ghetto then
after years of white flight because of rising crime
yes sir stores forced to close
no need for metal detectors , safe passage zones back then
anyone see a pattern of urban decay
10:23 PM that would be a good idea
let the wealthy suburbs that feel illegals are welcome in Chicago sanctuary
enjoy their new neighbors
Stop going to Whole foods, why should I pay more, and it's not the government paying for my food
The Englewood residents usually get five finger discounts at every other grocery store, which is why there are no grocery stores in Englewood. If you're willing to risk your life to visit that Whole Foods, do what the natives do - shoplift.
Sort of like corporate food stamps.
Do they accept link there?
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