Another Whole Foods Sale

As if you haven't looked at enough food today, the Pearl Street Whole Foods store will try to reignite your enthusiasm with a 3-day sale starting tomorrow. It's also on the chalkboard calendar inside the Superior store, and the cashier there thought all the local stores would be participating. Here's what they say:

"Friday, November 26th - Sunday, November 28th
3-Day After Thanksgiving Sale
7:30 am to 10pm
Yes, another sale! Don't miss this one- we'll have fresh deals in every department. It's never too early to stock up for Christmas house guests"

Title Nine Blowout Sale - Shop Till You Drop!

With all this cooking, you have some calories to work off, right? Every once in awhile, Title Nine, the wonderful women's activewear company, does a huge merchandise clearance, and it's back in Boulder this week. Note - it's not at the Title 9 store. They need a warehouse-sized space for this, so it will be in the 29th Street Mall at the corner of Arapahoe and 28th Street (I think where Wild Oats was originally planned - another food connection?). Starts Thursday, the 25th, and runs through Sunday (10-7 Thursday and Friday, 10-5 Saturday, 11-5 Sunday). They'll take Visa, Master Card, cash and checks, but not gift cards. Prices get marked further down as the sale progesses, so Thursday will have the best selection but highest prices, while Sunday will be pretty picked over but the best prices. It's the kind of thing where they hand out trash bags at the front door to carry all the stuff you'll collect, and a feeding frenzy of buying ensues. Just be sure you don't get carried away with your enthusiasm - while some incredible bargains can be found, some prices, at least at the sale's start, aren't that much lower than regular retail. Shop smart, shop well.

New Whole Foods Deals

Whole Foods may have a (mostly undeserved) reputation as Whole Paycheck, but the quality of much of their stock, especially meat and seafood, is so good, it deserves to cost more. And if you watch them closely (or simply read here), you can find fabulous deals to make that quality fit more wallets. I was just at the Pearl Street store, where they have a today-only excellent sale on some meat. Items I saw, all at nearly or more than half price, were whole chickens at 99 cents/lb, Virginia baked ham at $2.99/lb, and bone-in spiral ham at $3.99/lb. I didn't check expiration dates, but if I remember correctly, vacuum-packed hams can keep quite a while. I can't say if these deals are available at the other local WF stores today, but tomorrow, a 3 Day After New Years Sale starts at all of them. Standouts again to me are in the meat and fish departments, with boneless turkey breast roast nearly half price at $3.99/lb (I might postpone my plans to use their $2.99 turkey tenderloin based on this), organic grass-fed beef boneless rump roast at $3.99/lb, and Whole Catch cod fillets, $3 off at $4.99 each. I believe the cod will be their nice frozen package, handy to have in your freezer. Aleutia sockeye salmon will also be $4 off at $10.99/lb, and it was already flying out of the seafood department today. From partway across the vast Pearl Street store, I heard a hearty cry that I initially mistook for "Need pollution in the case!". Of course, it was "Need Aleutia in the case!".

Last Call for WF Current Specials

While Sprouts and Sunflower put out flyers weekly, Whole Foods stretches theirs out to a two-week cycle, so today's the last day to grab the current specials at Whole Foods. Among my favorites have been their Seeduction hearth bread at half price ($1.99), Two Bite cinnamon rolls at nearly half price ($2.99 for a bucket of them - and good news, their chocolate brownies will be at that price starting tomorrow!), and Cotswold cheese at nearly half price ($9.99/lb). Tomorrow only, beef NY strip loins (averaging five pounds each) will be $5.99/lb, if you're thinking of a large roast for New Year's. Because they do overlap days on Wednesdays, you'll still have tomorrow to catch the current specials at Sunflower and Sprouts.

Hot Two Day Sale

Whole Foods (flyer says Rocky Mountain Region, so must be all the stores around here) is doing some great deals in a two day sale, today and tomorrow only. Items that quickly caught my eye are their great burger, the 85% lean ground beef, just $1.99/lb (put a bunch in the freezer!), ground turkey breast $2.99/lb (half price!), and their fabulous baguettes at $.99 each (better than half price!).

Coupons and Events

Interesting things to be found in today's Daily Camera paper. Sprouts is offering a coupon for $10 off a $60 purchase. Also, night owls might enjoy Whole Foods' Moonlight Madness sale, Wednesday the 23rd, from 11 pm to 1:30 am. Won't find me there - I'll be asleep.