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[VicHockeyFan]

With Walmart and Save on Foods already in the area, and the nearest Thrifty Foods only a couple of km away, I wonder if they are choosing the right location. I think a good location is one that is on the right hand side of the road for commuters on their way home. The location that Whole Foods has chosen is on a one way street heading into Victoria.

 

Yes, very interesting.

 

63% of CFAX poll-takers are not familiar with the Whole Foods brand.

[jonny]

A great place for a Whole Foods would be the St Andrew's School project. The anti-corporate activists would have thrown a fit, though. Whatever goes in there will have to be a locally managed NFP that is carbon neutral, veganic, gluten free and non GMO. Maybe a weed dispensary or something.

 

Whole Foods is more of a destination marketplace than Thrifty's or Save on Foods. Foodies and yuppies are more likely to go out of their way to get to a Whole Foods. Not that Uptown is really out of the way. It's pretty central. The Wal-Mart target market is much different than Whole Foods', so I don't think there's much to worry about there. Save On and Wal-Mart have more in common with each other than they do with Whole Foods.

[Nparker]

A great place for a Whole Foods would be the St Andrew's School project...

I'd LOVE to have Whole Foods 2 blocks from my place, but something tells me North Park is not their desired demographic.

[sebberry]

I'd LOVE to have Whole Foods 2 blocks from my place, but something tells me North Park is not their desired demographic.

 

I don't see why that would be the case.  They could bring their fresh produce and chickens in by bicycle from the growers and farmers across the street. 

 

Talk about food security!

[jklymak]

Yeah I'd have said whole foods would have done better on Pandora with a lot of foot traffic than on the road out to Langford. All the hipsters in north park, fernwood and downtown are exactly the clientele who like whole foods.

[Daveyboy]

We will end up having one Whole Foods in the region and what better location than Uptown?  Serves Saanich Peninsula, Victoria, and is close enough to every one of our 13 special little municipalities!

[D.L.]

Yeah, Uptown is the most central commercial area in the region

[sebberry]

I don't see why that would be the case.  They could bring their fresh produce and chickens in by bicycle from the growers and farmers across the street. 

 

Talk about food security!

 

Why did the Chicken cross Mason Street?

[lanforod]

Why did the Chicken cross Mason Street?

To visit the ancient school house... I think that answer will apply for a long time yet.

[spanky123]

You do realize the entire section on the second floor under the clock tower is leased and under construction (Shaw Call Centre). Third floor is now 75% filed (Steve Nash adding 6000 Sq ft.), While the Fourth is 50% filed. The fatal on the first floor is 30%. The area where Western Union is, the second floor is empty and only about 20% is left. retail in pear one is full on the Avenue and about 50% on the back side. Office space in pase one is well over 70%.

Sections without retail Tenants yes, but hardly 50% empty.

 

The office complexes facing Douglas are empty.

[spanky123]

Yeah I'd have said whole foods would have done better on Pandora with a lot of foot traffic than on the road out to Langford. All the hipsters in north park, fernwood and downtown are exactly the clientele who like whole foods.

 

The hipsters will need to drive past Lifestyle Markets and the Market at Yates to get to Whole Foods. They also need to spend 30 minutes in the car to be environmentally friendly!

 

I don't know if the demo they go after is large enough to support a 40,000 sq ft store. I guess we will see. I am sure that Morguard gave them a sweatheart deal so that may cover them for a few years. The area around Uptown are definitely Walmart and Save-on shoppers.  

Edited by spanky123, 12 February 2015 - 02:12 PM.

[G-Man]

Broadmead is only five minutes away.

[Mixed365]

You do realize the entire section on the second floor under the clock tower is leased and under construction (Shaw Call Centre). Third floor is now 75% filed (Steve Nash adding 6000 Sq ft.), While the Fourth is 50% filed. The fatal on the first floor is 30%. The area where Western Union is, the second floor is empty and only about 20% is left. retail in pear one is full on the Avenue and about 50% on the back side. Office space in pase one is well over 70%.

Sections without retail Tenants yes, but hardly 50% empty.

You are more than correct sdwright.vic. 
 

[LJ]

bluefox, on 11 Feb 2015 - 11:50 PM, said:

How did you shop at a store that doesn't exist?

I think you meant Choices Market; there's no WFM in Surrey. Three in Vancouver, one in West Van, and stores under construction in Burnaby and North Van.

By gosh you're right. I must have misremembered, but in my defense the car I was in never took a RPG hit while I visited the store that one time.

[Coreyburger]

Could this be the end of Lifestyle Markets? I always wonder how the small store in CSV hangs on. And in 2016 if you're already on Douglas, you might as well bypass the Lifestyles and head for Whole Foods.

 

Very easy: lots of people live near there and walk/bike to CSV. Where they make many, small purchases.

 

Also, distance still matters for a lot of people. Not everybody drives or wants to drive long distances to go shopping.

[sdwright.vic]

Distance?!? What is this distance you speak of? We live in Victoria, there is no distance here.

Edited by sdwright.vic, 13 February 2015 - 04:46 PM.

[Nparker]

...We love in Victoria, there is no distance here.

Of course where there is LOVE there is no real distance. 

[sdwright.vic]

Darn it... LIVE, LIVE!

How do I clear my predictive text memory? It's all over the place these days.

[Bingo]

Distance?!? What is this distance you speak of? We love in Victoria, there is no distance here.

 

Save some for your Valentine.

[bluefox]

 Whole Foods in the US has beer and wine sections and I would expect the same here.

 

The ones over here in Vancouver do not.