This is a new comment from an older Whole Food post, and it’s interesting enough that I thought I would break it out:
I grew up on Coronado behind the Lakewood Country Club. I now live within walking distance of the former Lakewood Minyard’s store.
While shopping last week at Whole Foods on Greenville, a female patron revealed to me that WF planned to put the Minyard’s site back on the market and wait for the Albertson’s on Abrams and Mockingbird to become available as their new sight. Any truth to this?
— Judy Howard
I noted in my March magazine column that this seemed like an entirely logical course for Whole Foods once it decided not to build on the Minyard’s site. The parking lot is bigger, the zoning doesn’t require Whole Foods to consult the neighborhood, and Albertson’s continues to lose market share, dropping to third in the area.
The report has since been picked up elsewhere (I thought I saw it on the Dallas-Fort Worth Urban Forum, but I can’t find it now). Is is just another rumor? Or is there some muscle behind it? I’ll make a couple of calls and see what I can find out.
