Whole Foods CEO: New Detroit Store 'Exceeding Our Wildest Expectations'

DETROIT, MI – About eight weeks ago Whole Foods Market opened arguably one of the highest-anticipated retail stores in Detroit in recent years, throwing up the doors to a 21,000-square-foot location at Woodward and Mack avenues in Midtown.

And as it is with all things Detroit, along with the pomp and circumstance that came with the grand opening on June 5 and something that seemed to resemble progress, there was also a less-loud but always-present chorus of Detroit detractors who argued that it was too-high priced for Detroiters and would not be sustained by the city.

So far, those detractors appear to be wrong, at least according to one of the retail company's executives. Whole Foods Market Co-CEO Walter Robb told Bloomberg that "the store is exceeding our wildest expectations." He added that the store is serving a "wide area of the community.

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