Sunflower Market is opening up a couple blocks from me and I had
never heard of them. They have stores in the southwest.

http://www.sfmarkets.com/

Some of the sale prices don't look too bad for Phoenix, so I they
ought top be even cheaper here in Austin.

Seeing as how they're an organic/natural market, I think it's great
that they'll be competing with those assholes running Hole Foods,
who's prices are freaking outrageous - but people still shop there.
Hole Foods also drove up the prices at our other local upscale
markets (once they realized they could charge much more, and still
come in less than Hole Foods).

-sw

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:23:40 -0500, Sqwertz
wrote:

Sunflower Market is opening up a couple blocks from me and I had
never heard of them. They have stores in the southwest.

http://www.sfmarkets.com/

Some of the sale prices don't look too bad for Phoenix, so I they
ought top be even cheaper here in Austin.

Seeing as how they're an organic/natural market, I think it's great
that they'll be competing with those assholes running Hole Foods,
who's prices are freaking outrageous - but people still shop there.
Hole Foods also drove up the prices at our other local upscale
markets (once they realized they could charge much more, and still
come in less than Hole Foods).

-sw

Yes, I have one. It is a favorite destination for me, in ABQ. I
regularly get really good bargains there. I sometimes post their sale
ads, since a few folks here don't believe the prices I sometimes quote
from their sales circulars.

I tend to shop there on Wednesdays, as they overlap their ads that
day. I can get the best from two weeks worth of ads.

I have gotten really good deals there on meat too.

We also have a Whole Paycheck here, and it doesn't seem to affect the
prices at Sunflower.

Christine

Pay them a visit, when they open. I would be interested in hearing
what you think of them.

Sqwertz wrote:
Sunflower Market is opening up a couple blocks from me and I had
never heard of them. They have stores in the southwest.

http://www.sfmarkets.com/

Some of the sale prices don't look too bad for Phoenix, so I they
ought top be even cheaper here in Austin.

Seeing as how they're an organic/natural market, I think it's great
that they'll be competing with those assholes running Hole Foods,
who's prices are freaking outrageous - but people still shop there.
Hole Foods also drove up the prices at our other local upscale
markets (once they realized they could charge much more, and still
come in less than Hole Foods).

-sw


There's one not terribly far away in Denver but we're getting one
quite close in a new retail development (Adios, soccer fields) and I'm
excited about having one I can reasonably shop a few times a week.

They have decent prices for produce and a nice selection. They have
frozen food brands the supermarkets don't offer. Nice cheese selection,
bulk grains, candy, nuts. Good chocolate. Very few brands you'd find
elsewhere. Lots of vitamins and homeopathic stuff.

If you have ever shopped at Boney's/Henry's in SoCal, or Wild Oats, it
is very similar.

gloria p

On Tue 03 Jun 2008 06:23:40p, Sqwertz told us...

Sunflower Market is opening up a couple blocks from me and I had
never heard of them. They have stores in the southwest.

http://www.sfmarkets.com/

Some of the sale prices don't look too bad for Phoenix, so I they
ought top be even cheaper here in Austin.

I couldn't say. The three locations in the Phoenix area are nowhere near
where I live.

Seeing as how they're an organic/natural market, I think it's great
that they'll be competing with those assholes running Hole Foods,
who's prices are freaking outrageous - but people still shop there.
Hole Foods also drove up the prices at our other local upscale
markets (once they realized they could charge much more, and still
come in less than Hole Foods).

-sw

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Christine Dabney wrote:

Pay them a visit, when they open. I would be interested in hearing
what you think of them.

Me? _Not_ visit a new grocery store chain in town? Yeah - right!

Thanks for the feedback.

-sw

Gloria P wrote:

If you have ever shopped at Boney's/Henry's in SoCal, or Wild Oats, it
is very similar.

It kinda sounds like a Sun Harvest market - which is the equivalent
of Henry's/WIld Oats (since Hole Foods bought Sun Harvest, I haven't
been back).

-sw

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 21:12:10 -0500, Sqwertz
wrote:

Gloria P wrote:

If you have ever shopped at Boney's/Henry's in SoCal, or Wild Oats, it
is very similar.

It kinda sounds like a Sun Harvest market - which is the equivalent
of Henry's/WIld Oats (since Hole Foods bought Sun Harvest, I haven't
been back).

-sw

I have been to both Henry's in southern Cal, and to the Sprouts
markets in Phoenix. It is similar to both, but I think it has better
deals most of the time.

I never felt it was like Wild Oats... For one thing, the prices are
much much better than Wild Oats.

Christine

Sqwertz wrote:

Sunflower Market is opening up a couple blocks from me and I had
never heard of them. They have stores in the southwest.

http://www.sfmarkets.com/

Some of the sale prices don't look too bad for Phoenix, so I they
ought top be even cheaper here in Austin.

Seeing as how they're an organic/natural market, I think it's great
that they'll be competing with those assholes running Hole Foods,
who's prices are freaking outrageous - but people still shop there.
Hole Foods also drove up the prices at our other local upscale
markets (once they realized they could charge much more, and still
come in less than Hole Foods).

-sw

Go for it. The fruit and veg at our local Sunflower are generally quite
good quality and fresh. We don't buy much meat there other than their
sausages (whichever type is on sale that week). Large line of
supplements too, although those aren't cheap. And they sell 'structured
water' LOL.