The Cost of Thanksgiving at Whole Foods in Englewood in Chicago

"When Whole Foods opened its Englewood location on West 63rd Street in late September, the natural and organic food retailer identified about 30 staple items that would be sold at much lower prices than at other Whole Foods stores," reports Kori Rumore, Jonathan Berlin, and Phil Geib for the Chicago Tribune.

The store made news as far back as its opening announcement in November 2014. The store is usually a sign of the gentrification ship long having sailed, but in Englewood's case in 2014, any influx of affluence was still speculative and a few years, at least, on the horizon.

Now the Chicago Tribune checks in with the store to see if the company's promises of selling food at less than usual Whole Foods prices are holding true during the Thanksgiving season.

Now almost two months after the 18,000-square-foot store opened, how much can an area resident expect to spend on foods for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner? Is it equal to what someone in suburban Evanston - the closest store location to high-earning enclaves Kenilworth, Glencoe and Winnetka - might pay? How does it compare with the national average?

To complete the study, the investigative team checked the lowest-priced Thanksgiving foods according to the American Farm Bureau Federation's annual informal price survey, comparing the prices at the Englewood store to the Evanston store on Green Bay Road. The findings: the total rang in at $44.60 in Englewood, compared to $74.09 in Evanston.