Whole Foods Market 4+

When you do a search and click on an item for more info, leaving that item takes you back to the very start of the category list and you have to scroll down all over again. So annoying. Also they appear to change prices upwards so often that the same item is listed multiple times with different prices. ( though this helps you to see how much they raise prices, often over 10%). Example: a fruit shows on the sale page as $7.99 on sale for 6.66 but on a produce search it is $8.99. So it just went up a dollar?

Also, try searching for non food items like toilet tissue and it can’t be found. And there is no category for that kind of product. Considering they mark things up beyond everywhere else you’d think they could afford a better app.

As of this time, the short description for this app is “Get the most out of every shopping trip.” That’s a sweeping promise, and it’s understandable that people who are looking to save time, not money (a major target audience for Whole Foods) would be miffed to download the app and find that it’s useless for them. I’m looking for an app that will let me minimize my in-store time during the COVID epidemic - thanks to all the negative reviews, I looked at the reviews before downloading and know this doesn’t have the functionality I need. But I’ve apparently downloaded it in the past, which means it would take less time for the marketers to fix this than the time I, personally, have already spent figuring out that their idea of “get the most out of every shopping trip” is very limited compared to mine.

The app for Aldi does basically the same thing as this one and is rated 4.8 stars, because the short description accurately describes what the app does. Years worth of negative reviews, and Whole Foods still hasn’t made this simple fix?!

Until recently if you wanted to browse sale items you could do it logically, by category—the way a store is set up and people shop. Now, if you only want to see what’s on sale in frozen foods or beverages or produce or whatever you have to endlessly scroll through items of every category, frozen waffles next to protein powder next to canned tuna, etc. And every flavor of every brand that’s on sale—yogurt, juice, ice cream, etc.—has a separate entry, making the list even longer and things harder to find. Would be nice if there was one entry for an item, with flavor/variety choices in a drop-down or list you could choose from once you select the item. Please at least restore the search by categories for sale items. Otherwise, it’s useless.