Many customers who jammed into the new Whole Foods Market Detroit the morning of its debut exuded a kind of mass glee: the release of years-long frustration of having to go to the suburbs to shop at a national grocer.
I lived in Detroit for two years, and at least every other week we had to drive 11 miles north to get to a Trader Joes. There are some things that you just couldn't find in the city. It seems almost sad that a grocery store can elicit such a response, but this is going to affect a large number of people. I would have been at this store every week.