We have several Sprouts here in OKC, which we visit weekly, and one Whole
Foods, that we've been to three times. We love Sprouts and their produce
is really good and they have good ads for what's in season. I went into
WF yesterday, for the first time in several years, and I was impressed with
the selection of products and the smell of their prepared foods areas was
divine. I was after coffee and was pleasantly surprised to find they carry
my favorite beans at a lower price than where I've been buying them and
most importantly, they are on the shelf a few days after roasting!! The
shop where I've been buying beans only has beans roasted back in May, which
I refuse to buy.
I've also heard rumors that Albertsons is trying to buy Sprouts, much like
Amazon bought WF. I don't consider that a good thing since Albertsons was
a failed grocery chain around here.
Bicycle content is that WF is the only place between Sprouts, WF and Trader
Joes where I routinely see bicycles locked up outside and it's certainly
the most likely to place to see a Riv. The two bikes that were there
yesterday were old steel fixies, one with no brakes. A true track bike.
On Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 9:30:12 AM UTC-5, Kiley DeMond wrote:
>
> Well, my only comment to your story is about the store, not the bike
> (which really needs no comment as we are all here because we "get"
> Rivendell and the beauty of the bicycle, although I continue to delight in
> such anecdotes). Sprouts is a "healthy" (I use quote marks because all
> stores of this ilk sell plenty that is not healthy), that started in
> Arizona (HQ in Phoenix). Its full name is Sprouts Farmers Market and it
> chooses to open in markets not served by Whole Foods which only opens in
> affluent neighborhoods. I shopped WF for thirty years (starting in a tiny
> Palo Alto WF) and now live in a city (Prescott) where the WF closed after
> the lease ran out on the New Frontier Natural Marketplace location that WF
> purchased in 2014 (WF purchased three of their five locations; Flagstaff
> and Sedona, AZ are beautiful thriving stores. The family-owned chain kept
> the locations in Sovang and Santa Maria, the latter of which has
> subsequently been sold to WF). I have been shopping at Sprouts since they
> opened a locations in northern California, and with my move to Arizona, I
> have access to more of them than WFs (speaking of which, the WF in north
> Scottsdale, about 100 miles from Prescott, is arguably the best WF I have
> been in; the ones in Ann Arbor, MI are shameful). WF has Sprouts beat in
> prepared foods hands down, but Sprouts has the best supplement and vitamin
> department I have even been in, and all also had very knowledgeable staff.
>
> On Saturday, July 8, 2017 at 6:22:33 PM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote:
>>
>> ... [even if] you are pushing it through the Saturday afternoon crowd in
>> the narrow aisles of a discount Trader Joe's/Whole Foods clone (Sprout's;
>> formerly Sunflower, until the owner of the latter got nailed for
>> naughtiness of some sort).
>>
>> I was pushing the '03 through the crowded aisles of Sprouts Corrales this
>> early afternoon; old ladies looks askance as if I'm dangerous; young
>> matrons sniff and shove past; you are buttonholed everlastingly by the odd
>> old codger.* But I had leaned the bike against the cheese island, for
>> forays to the west end of the bulk aisle and north to the sodium nitrate
>> (sausage and so forth) case, and west and south to the drinks section.
>> ("Drinks" -- wine, beer, spirits -- the fizzy rotgot is far to the east.)
>>
>> I came back to home base and a young 40-something with potbelly was
>> staring pensively at the Riv. He saw me and asked, "Is that a Raleigh"? I
>> said, "No" and explained about small northern CA builder, had several
>> customs, blah blah blah, and he replied, "I thinks bikes are just so
>> beautiful." At which point I launched into my screed about how sure, the
>> lugs are nice, and man, you should have seen the original $800 (?) paint
>> job before Dave and Chauncey altered the frame and I had it powdercoated;
>> and that the signature Riv feature is the fit, handling, ride.
>>
>> And that's not all! Down by the dairy case, a youngster, red headed lad
>> all of 11 or 12, piped up and said, "Neat bike!"
>>
>> Bah! to all you frightened old ladies and hard faced soccer moms!**
>>
>> * Tho' I've had some very interesting conversations when buttonholed by
>> old has-beens -- stock car racers, spies, fantasists ...
>>
>> **I generally lock it outside at busy times, but I had forgotten the
>> lock. I do conscientiously defer to the old beldames (despite a tendency
>> adequately described my my brother's retort to an old lady in line at the
>> checkout, way back when and far far away, when she was being rude: "Just
>> because you're old doesn't mean you have to be nasty".)
>>
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