Kelly at West Coast Grrlie Blather has posted a great collection of links about the new Whole Foods flagship store.
Goodbye, Wild Oats
November 16, 2007 by Jill Davis Doughtie
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i don’t understand – did they close because of whole foods? is wild oats part of whole foods?
Whole Foods acquired Wild Oats, and this Wild Oats location was shut down because it was pretty close to the new Whole Foods flagship store here in Pasadena.
sigh…empty is right. i hope something moves in there sooner rather than later.
I wonder what will go in there to replace it…
Have you been to the new WF? it’s…massive.
Yeah, it’s huge! And the parking is kind of scary. But I like the store. They have free wireless internet in the wine and tapas bar!
Wild Oats been closed nearly 2 weeks and ALL of the lights are still on 24/7. So much for Whole Foods being a “Green Company”…..
Utterly ridiculous!
Wow, times-a-changing. I remember this used to be a Jurgensen’s market, and when that closed and Wild Oats came in, I recall everybody being a little confused… we hadn’t seen the whole gourmet-green market thing before. And now Wild Oats itself is closed because there’s an overabundance of outlets. Wonder what’s next?
Whatever it is, I hope it serves good sandwiches.
Wasn’t the Whole Foods in Hastings Ranch a Jurgensen’s too at one time? I haven’t been to the new Whold Foods “flagship,” but my neighbor called it the “Disneyland of natural foods!” Maybe we’ll check it out over the holiday weekend.
Incidentally, I remember the old days of Wild Oats from when I lived in Denver. They gobbled up their competition in that market (Alfalfa’s), went national, and now they’ve been gobbled up themselves.
Thanks so much for visiting my blog. I always enjoy meeting new bloggers. I love Whole Foods – we have a huge one near my office. I keep saying I am going to take 2 hours and just look down every single aisle. Happy Thanksgiving.
The East Pasadena WF wasn’t a Jurgenson’s, I don’t think that was a chain.
Miss Wild Oats even though parking was hectic they had open air not the undergroud exhaust fumed environs. Hastings Ranch WF is more agreeable to me. Thanks for sharing WO’s pics & a blessed Thanksgiving :).
Great! Now there will be more parking spaces for Noah’s!
You’re right Nick. My mistake. I was thinking of a friend of mine who LIVED in Hastings Ranch, but worked at the Jurgensen’s on California and Lake when he was in high school. His job was delivering groceries and gift baskets in Old Man Jurgensen’s Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight (laying down rubber with that big V-8 on South Oak Knoll).
Oh, and I forgot to say that wife, kid, and me finally made it to the new WF. We passed on the valet parking, made our way up the labyrinth of elevators, pushed a cart around all the aisles (dodging all the well dressed young up and comers, out for some reason at WF on a Friday night), and bought a single box of raspberry leaf tea. Don’t think we’ll be frequenting the place, since TJ’s meets our needs just fine, at half to 3/4 of the price on most items we typically buy.
It is important to say that Wild Oats had a very disgusting rat problem at the very end of their stay on the corner of California and Lake.
Also, I heard a rumor that Dean & DeLuca was attempting to set up shop in the epty space left by Wild Oats but that WF was not allowing that lease to go through; and that WF is hoping that a Rite-Aid or something similar gets the lease, is this true?
I can’t imaging a Rite-Aid type store at that location. That would be a bad turn for the neighborhood. I think there is one, though, opening at the former Circuit City location several blocks up Lake.
Yep, it’s a Walgreens and a Sit N Sleep sofa centre that’s gone in at the former Good Guys. Agree that it would be a lousy turn for South Lake if anything like that went in down by California, too.
It’s kind of a bummer: in terms of a nice-to-aimlessly-stroll-and-window-shop factor, South Lake perennially seems to be just a few stores away from success — losing Tower and Good Guys and Wild Oats and that mostly-Patagonia-stuff outlet place in the last few years hasn’t helped, either. And I hear they’re planning parking meters, now, which seems awfully unwise.
-J