Whole Foods Market

Category:	Grocery Store
Address:	500 E Ogden Ave, Hinsdale, IL 60521, USA
Phone:	+1 630-986-8500
Site:	wholefoodsmarket.com
Rating:	4
Working:	8AM–10PM 8AM–10PM 8AM–10PM 8AM–10PM 8AM–10PM 8AM–10PM 8AM–10PM

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Photos 100

Reviews 7

Joe Basile

I have 4 gift cards from Whole Foods all with a couple dollars on them. Collectively probably about $20. Since Im moving to France soon Im cashing in or throwing away all my old gift cards. Home Depot was my first stop and I made $18 off 2 old gift cards. (Yes you can cash in your home depot gift cards as long as the balance is below $10 on the card. I just did it.) Other places besides Home Depot also do this. Makes sense because nobody usually spends the last bit of change on a gift card. I tried Target and Big Lots and they told me no. I Learned from target that it tells you on the back of the card if you can or cannot cash in the remainder. Cool, so I started reading the backs of all my gift cards and turns out Home Depot and Whole Foods offer cash back on gift cards. However Whole Foods doesnt specify how much you can get back. It Just says "You cannot redeem for cash unless required" So I called customer service to ask what this meant. Once I called I was told that it is possible to redeem any amount of giftcard $ into cash. The catch is Its up to the store that I go to. They may or may not do it... So I called 2 Whole Foods stores. First I called this one, the Hinsdale Whole Foods. They said nope we dont do it. So then I called a Whole foods in North Chicago and they said they do it! So I called the Hinsdale store back (which is closer to my house) and you guys told me that no Whole Foods does this... I said actually I just called another Whole foods and they said they do it. The man I was talking to got angry with me and told me what I was saying wasnt true, that I was lying to him... I told the man not only does it say on the back of the gift card that I can but i just spoke with customer service and they also said the same thing. He went on saying that my gift card (Which Im holding in my hand) does not say I can redeem for cash and he doesnt know where I got this idea from. Once again, it says it on the back of my gift card that it is possible. Maybe hes never really read the back of a Whole Foods gift card. If you guys once allowed this but dont anymore then you need to fix this policy so that stores and gift card holders are on the same page.

A Private User

Hot bar and Salad Bar was DISGUSTING! We are huge Whole Foods Fans! Unfortunately we moved over the weekend and were VERY disappointed with our new local Whole Foods location. While we recognize that the Hinsdale location is a smaller Whole Foods Store, we find the condition of the salad bar and hot food bar unacceceptable. We came on 2 different occasions. The first on Saturday evening around 5:30 and then again yesterday around 3pm. The food was old. On Saturday evening I tried the beef with the sauerkraut which was ok and the corn pudding. Then I went to the salad and picked up the tongs for the tomatoes and there was a peice of hair on them (this was laying in the tomatoes) I handed it to someone in prepared foods, the hair still entact and he was just going to give me another tong. I kindly informed him---that after the hair, I wasnt really feeling the tomatoes. Common sense would say, pull the tomatoes and AT LEAST wash them! On Sunday when I came back the corn pudding looked like corn mush and there wasnt anything that look remotely edible. One other issue I see is that they incorporate a lot of dips that dont really make sense on the hot bar. Spinach dip and taco dip, but no chips or anything else to eat with it which doesnt make sense. If you want to offer this to people not eating in your store, package it and sell it on the shelf. There comes a time, when food sits there on a steam table and continues to cook and get old--that is inedible. Just because you can get someone to buy it, doesnt mean you should sell it. My husband, who is usually pretty tolerate---got a pizza on Sunday and said we are never going back and I totally agree. He would rather eat at Jewels....which says A LOT! Shame on you Hinsdale Whole Foods----you should know better! PS--parking lot is too crowded....

A Private User

I have shopped at the Hinsdale WF for atleast 6 years since it is my neighborhood grocery. (I shop at 4 in the Chicago area). I am quite surprised by the negative reviews because my personal experience has been so overwhelmingly positive over 100's of visits. The large selection of Produce, Dairy & Foodstuffs is fresh and abundant; the store is clean and parking is always available. I find the Staff to be very friendly & knowledgable...and if you shop the store in the hour before closing, when its largely empty of customers, you will get a glimpse of a good natured crew. As for the person with the bad avacado, what a traumatic experience to cut into a fruit and find it spoiled...but take satisfaction that the customer service line is no longer combined with the express lane so the wait time for a return is now expedient. As for the job applicant who was turned down and then left such negative comments...such sour grapes would never be seen in the produce dept of Hinsdale WF. For a local grocery, I highly recommend this Whole Foods!

Terry Aberdod

Having shopped and eaten at this Whole Foods Market for quite sometime, it seems to me some of these terrible reviews must have been written by employees who had been let go due to being substandard workers. Cannot imagine some of the stories being true. Really now. Sure, anywhere you go will have the odd off day, but it sure doesnt happen very often at the Hinsdale store. Always pleased. Their produce is the best as well as the cheese/wine/chocolate depts. Recommend it to all my family and friends(and some doctors and business folks too!)

A Private User

Had a Interview and was looking forward to it. Wholefoods has alot of great helpful and happy employees, all but the one in Hinsdale. Never been in there until it was interview time. Got there pretty early and just sat their looking at the store and its employees. Not a laugh, smile or anything, it was very unpleasant and I could swear the store was runned by Hitler or something. No smiling or being happy at all. Very happy I didnt get the job and very disappointed in the store owner and how the store is runned by unfriendly ppl.

A Private User

I was a faithful whole foods shopper until today. Bought an organic avocado today for dinner and cut it open and it was all brown. Called customer service and was told I had to bring it in for a refund. So I drove 10 minutes back to whole foods to return the avocado and then she made me wait in line that was 7 people long for the refund. You think they wold have at least given me a new avocado for the trouble I had to go to to return the bad one. One thing that really bothers me is bad customer service.

EMPREZZ I

I always love my time spent at whole foods, I recently relocated from Connecticut to Chicago, Ive been a Wholefooder from the beginning and before, when we use to shop at small place called Cheese and Stuff. Some people say their food is so expensive and my response is you pay there or at the Doctors office on descriptions and their pharmaceutical industry