Whole Foods Market Redwood City

Fresh Fruit Tort. The perfect hostess gift for Sunday lunch with the relatives. It’s expensive but always fresh! Today it was chaos in the fruit and vegetable area but the check out was a breeze.

Food cost to much and parking spaces are to small. There also having a baby Christmas tree holocaust. One baby tree for $ 25.00.

Small but very nice whole foods! They’re the only store in the area that carries Thayers Witch Hazel Aloe Vera toner! 9.99 + tax as always. New packaging so head up!

The fruit quality here is terrible. Multiple times I have bought fruit from here and it has been moldy or expired or sour and low quality. I notice that the expiration dates and pack dates are always about a week later than the ones at the San Mateo whole foods, which makes me believe that when the quality is too low for San Mateo then they ship the produce to redwood city but charge the same price, what a scam.
After three months of over priced and low quality fruit that I keep having to throw out, I had to say something

Ha ha… I ended up here because my kids told me it was convenient… close to their house. I headed over there to get stew meat and ingredients for dinner for a couple of nights.
I wanted short ribs (thick Korean style), but all they had here the big beef ribs with not much meat on it at over $ 9/lb…um, I don’t think so… I ended up getting Chateaubriand for «stew meat»…
I didn’t recognize any of the brands and when I asked about Lipton Onion Sou;p and Best Foods Mayonnaise, they kindly told me those products have too much artificial ingredient in them… oops.
The people were really nice and helpful and laughed along with me when I told them I lived all of these years with the artificial ingredients. One guy even agreed that his dad who is 80 drinks, eats all the bad stuff and smokes and is still alive.
Store was clean, parking was ok that day, but when I went back in the evening on another day, parking was kind of hard to find.
Love the Siggi’s yogurt… so once I got back home and went to the local Whole Foods, I bought some. Here it is a dollar more than in Redwood City!

Mike from fish department helped me to find right meat for bbq and recommended ones. Cleaned very well and did a great job with cutting it, five star for him

We love non-​GMO food! Time and time again their seafood department has great finds, today I had sea snails and raw river Oysters… delicious!

Update!!! 11÷11÷15 WARNING about Synergy Raspberry Chia drink !!!
Bought one today, brought it home and opened it and the darn thing entirely exploded. When I called Whole Foods after a 20 minute cleanup of all the little Chia seeds in the liquid all over the counter and my clothing, and in my face, Charlotte the lady that answered was very indifferent to the whole thing not seeing the immediate danger in pulling some of these off the shelves with the SKU number that I tried to provide. She simply quietly said I could get a refund any time but I told her that was not the point. I assumed that they would immediately go to the cold case and at least open one or two of them with that batch number on them to test them but she did not feel so inclined. She put me on hold for 12 minutes and no one came to the phone so I called the Synergy company phone number listed on the bottle in Beverly Hills. The man who answered was a «little»
sympathetic and admitted that several of these do explode because of the Chia seeds in them and I am not the first one! He offered me a voucher for a new bottle which I politely declined. I called whole foods back and demanded a supervisor and did give them the information on the top of the bottle with the batch number and he seemed like he may do something about it but again his nonchalance was frightening. If the glass exploded someone could be blinded.
Because these are glass bottles and apparently under extreme pressure I would be very concerned as a store manager and pull them off until I know more.
Love love love this store.
OK so it’s close to my house…
I am not a cook and I am a party of one person.
So I come here… Go to the salad bar and hot food bar and know that the food I choose is organic, wholesome, and also tastes incredibly delicious.
They do an amazing job with kale which I would never touch with a 10 foot pole otherwise. Now I eat quinoa and other unpronounceable grains and vegetables that are cooked magnificently.
Sometimes you can catch poached salmon on the salad bar for nine dollars a pound !!
A fine selection of cheeses, crackers, olives, and freshly made pizza.
Awesome store… Just wish it were bigger. They even have an electric charging station for my electric Smart car…

Amazing customer service. Whatever has gone wrong they WILL make it right. I truly appreciate them going the extra mile to ensure total client satisfaction. Jason was the manager and he made all the difference! Thank you so much!

4 years have gone by since I last visited, or at least reviewed, this store. Sadly, my experience today was about the same.
Call me a snob, but walking into Whole Foods I expect a certain standard of excellence. After all, you’re paying a premium for what’s touted as ‘high quality food /​ingredients’. I also expect that store will be clean, food will be safe to eat, items well stocked, etc. You know, basic stuff that even the crappiest of Safeways can accommodate.
Today I visited this store around 1pm, slightly past the peak of lunch rush. The store was moderately busy, especially around the deli and salad bar area. I was really disappointed to see the hot food /​salad bar area in a total state of disarray. Only about ¾ of the salad and hot items were stocked and there were several spills, torn boxes, slimy tongs and gross people sneaking food with their hands as they served themselves. Shame! *rings bell* Shaaame!
Gross, messy customers aside, where were the employees? There was one dude half assedly sweeping around the area, but the floor wasn’t really the problem.
Why does this store suck so much? I’ve been to the WF on Haight St. during Bay to Breakers, which is nothing less than pure chaos, but the store was clean and there was plenty of food stocked and ready to go. RWC needs to step up their game!
On a positive note, the checkers were very friendly and nice.

I have been shopping at this Whole Foods store for last one and half year. The store is located 6 miles from where I live and I have two Safeways and a Trader Joe’s within 3 mile radius from my residence. Yet I drive a farther distance, pay a premium price, only and only because I thought I could buy my grocery without ever having a second thought about the quality of food.
Whole Foods takes a lot of pride in bringing the best farm produce to their customers. Sadly the store has not lived up to their reputation in my experience with the store in last two months. I visited the store at around 9:00 PM on Monday (August 31^st, 2015). I found most of the farm produce was stale or rotting. The leafy vegetables were wilting or turning yellow, bell peppers were turning black, shelled green peas were developing fungus, green grapes were turning brown and many vegetables were out of stock. (See the pictures) I asked the cashier, if they were having any supply chain issues. The cashier said, that was not the case, she said they get their supplies every Tuesday, so on Monday their produce is not so fresh. So I wondered, why would you even keep the «fresh» produce section open when you agree that product quality is substandard and still charge full price for the product to the customers. I wrote a note to the customer service but I don’t expect anything to happen.
Also to add a note, for last 45 days that I have been visiting the store, I never found Organic Green Apples, Organic Strawberries. They only have commercial variants of those. To that the cashier told me the farmers have gone on strike. I told them, I do find those Organic Driscolli Strawberry boxes in Costco but they are in huge portion and my family can’t finish it. So I don’t think farmers are on strike but may be you have some dispute with the supplier.
Well I need to start looking at other options very soon. I will research for some co-​op market that sells fresh organic non-​GMO produce.
Whole Foods you have not lived up to your reputation.
See the pictures. They were all taken on the same day, during my visit on August 31, 2015.

They open at 7am! They have delicious prepared foods bar-​salad bar, soups, pizza, breakfast and lunch/​dinner food! And deli sandwiches, grill items! Huge selection of cheeses. Kombucha!
Check out the Friday deals.

I ordered a birthday cake for my son. I had a theme for the cake and showed them a picture when I ordered the cake! It was $ 20 extra for the design!
The cake it self was ok… It was chocolate cake with chocolate mouse filling … The design was very poorly executed and frankly I think I could have done a better job my self!
If I order cake here next time I’ll just order a ordinary cake and skip the design since it will only be waste of money

This is a review for the floral department…
I came in to get an arrangement for my nieces birthday the lady that helped me was Isabella and she did an amazing job! The arrangement was absolutely Beautiful I was so happy with it, she even helped me walk it to my car. She definitely went above and beyond! I will always come here for my arrangements!

Dear Express Lane Checkout Girl,
I’m sorry I went to the wrong check stand. I really am. I should have been considerate enough to realize that I had 11 items, and the maximum is 8.
Although it was my responsibility, I did not look at the sign. I saw an empty check stand and made a beeline to it. And while I put my 11 items on your counter, you looked at me and said it was for 8 items or less. Me, the lady with the cranky infant grabbing at her hair and the cranky small child tugging at her pants. Me, the pregnant lady who had already puked four times that day and just wanted to get out of the store with her two kids alive. Me, who had no one waiting in line behind me. Who had three extra items. Who was obviously exhausted. You could have just not said anything. Seeing as no one was behind me at all, you could have just let it slide. You chose to humiliate me and condescendingly notify me that this lane was for 8 or less items only. While I was on the brink of my kids losing it. While I am on the brink of myself losing it. Is it your fault that we were all tired, and that today was one of those days? No. But as an employee that represents the company for which you work, and as a person, you could have practiced some sympathy and human kindness.
So don’t worry, if I come back, I will be sure to go to the correct line if I have 1 – 3 too many items, regardless of the state of my children or my stomach or my head. I’m so sorry that I have offended you to the point that you felt it was necessary to be so catty towards me while I had my hands full and you were doing nothing.

What a great little Whole Foods! When I first walked in I didn’t think that it was very big, just because the produce section was smaller than I had expected. But as a continued walking I realized it was actually one of the larger whole foods I have been in. Or maybe it just had more sections than I was used to. They have a really good meat section with a large variety, I was with the bakery!
What’s great is that they have a whole body section, which not all whole foods have. This whole body section was a good size and it had a good amount of things.
What they deliver the whole foods is how nice everyone always is and this whole foods is no exception is Whole Foods has a lot of people working around there and they’re all very welcoming.
The store is very clean, and organized.

Whole Foods on the small size, has a few specialty departments like deli, sammie, sushi, taqueris, etc.
usually check out the liquor section. lots of offerings but not many specials.
drink: «Buzzerkely» spakling ale. 7.99, $ 2off 7%:alc.
–very smooth like a screwdriver, easy buzz, no fizz like champagne.
–drinkable like gatorade…
on draft:
–mistook this for another berkeley brew.
–easy parking here.

I found this location small and definitely lacking in the prepared foods, bakery and produce departments. Pretty disappointed…
The service was very slow as well… They couldn’t find a bag for the pastry and the guy couldn’t explain what they have in their cakes… And got visibly frustrated with me when I changed my mind (he didn’t even put it in the box yet, and I didn’t need writing)!!!
Same prices, but so much worse compared to other locations

Considering I worked in the area for a while I never set foot in here. Now they usually have a good beer and cheese selection at Whole Foods so I decided to drop in after an errand. Was looking for Torta Casera and Torta Sirena. The guy working was saying that theyve been having hard times with FDA on certain cheeses. So no luck. Also was hoping for some Mikkeller selections and nothing there either. Well perhaps another time… seafood section actually looked pretty good with Atlantic lobster tails at 2 for $ 15…will check back when Im back in the area 3.5 stars

If it weren’t for my boyfriend I don’t think that I’d ever go to a Whole foods, and I could be proud of that.
The sticker shock alone is ridiculous, I can’t handle it for products that I can find at other stores. Everything here is very pretty. The displays are immaculate and should be shown in magazines, not displaying eggplants.
I’ll never understand the hype about this place. The food is good but I could spend half as much and get the ingredients elsewhere.