Bloomingfoods Market and Deli Downtown

Oh gosh.  I wholeheartedly agree with the reviewers who can't stand the staff at this place.  I've lived in town for the better part of a decade.  I would like to think that I am a kind, sweet and of course liberal person...but I don't need the B-foods staff to validate that.  However, it would be super cool if the staff could take the hip-factor down a few hundred notches.  I mean, I went in there a few weeks ago, and this hip little bike punky/pouty thing was BLASTING Skrillex.  Seriously dear, no one wants to hear that crap while they shop for bulk quinoa.

Also, be kind.  Say hi to us when we walk in/check out. I've worked in the service industry before, I know it's awful.  That being said, when you have nice customers, BE NICE BACK.  Also, a dick ton of my friends work at the other B-foods locations and are awesome.  Why does this location attract the douches in the past few years?  Except Nathan...he was awesome and I miss him.

I went back today...and it still sucked.  Why do I subject myself to such unpleasant experiences?  Well, because it's the best place to grab a few organic/fair trade/vegan items for cooking dinner on my way home from school.

Lastly, the new layout is also a totes bummer.  It feels really cramped.  I used to like it when the whole upstairs was all shelves.  It felt like the selection was better too.  The tables upstairs seem like a waste of space.  No one eats up there.

Whether or not the workers at Bloomingfoods talk to me depends completely on what I look like that day. I'm not kidding. I'm a liberal person, but if I don't "look" like one going into Bloomingfoods, then I'm not going to get a greeting or a glance. Once the guy at the register stayed on the phone the entire time he was ringing up my food and didn't look at me or say one word. This place has become some kind of odd social experiment.

Oh, and it's ridiculously overpriced with very little selection. I do enjoy the prepared foods, though.

i have learned that many things in Bloomington that are considered "great" would not fly in bigger cities. Bloomingfoods is a great example of this concept, and I am not going to bite my tongue for any longer. First of all, I am a liberal person, but obviously a scum-sucking right-winger when I go to B-Foods. The liberal guilt and elitist, granola, NPR bullshit in this place is gag-worthy. The prices are outrageous (but remember: you are helping save the tree sloths by paying inflated prices!), the staff is generally rude and haughty, and the prepared foods are crap-tastic. I have ordered sandwiches at the deli, waited 15 minutes for their preparation, and have had to force them down due to some funky ingredients. I purchased the hot bar and could not taste anything but garlic for hours. And any time I check out and tell the cashier that I don't have a member number, I might as well have told them that I constantly rape pandas.

Just because it's the only real health food/green grocery in town (well, there's Sahara Mart with their mold cultures growing in the olive vats) doesn't mean it's good. I will continue to shop there for certain things because Kroger sucks, but I will do it with a clenched sphincter. At least get the produce right, fellas? It's way overpriced and is not that fresh. Damn, I miss Whole Foods.