Whole Foods Mkt project discussion

fixed PGH coords, updated a few opening schedules.

Opening in a day or two, will confirm coordinates tomorrow morning when I get there.

Hi Shrifty,

It seems you have been doing updates to this POI, but at certain time you have stopped.

Are you going to be updating locations that have moved/opened etc since the last update in December of last year?

Cheers,

Peter

Hi Peter, I basically stopped updating this POI after Whole Foods made their store directory very difficult to view. I hope to be updating it in the near future, once I find a good way to confirm all locations are correct and accurate. I haven't found a good way to see all locations on their site. I hope to have it done by the end of next week.

Let's hope Whole Foods website will give visibility to all locations addresses on their page as they used to for simplicity reasons so we can integrate them into POI.

Thanks for your work Shrifty.

-Peter

Hi shrifty,

Were you able to get the updated location list from Whole Foods? Perhaps I can reach out to their PR and see if they can provide updated location list so we can include them in this POI project.

-Peter

shrifty,

I had some time to kill this week, so I pulled the text of all locations on the Whole Foods website, scrubbed the data, and normalized it. Missing are the store descriptors (eg, WF - Mountain Brook, WF - Speedway in your file) and the fax numbers; the store descriptors are mostly images on the website, so I couldn't pull text out of those, and the fax numbers are not provided in the store listings on the Whole Foods website.

Everything is current as of Nov 7, 2013. Also, I parsed the listings into street address, city, state, postal code, phone, and hours. That's not how your csv file is laid out, I realize. But it will let you sort the list in any way you wish. You can concatenate the data as you wish.

Assuming I can attach a file to an email sent from the POI Factory website, I'll send you the list Fri night. Hope you will find it useful.

I already provided complete listing updated up to November 8th yesterday to Shrifty. He is working on the update.

«I already provided complete listing updated up to November 8th yesterday to Shrifty.»

Great! Thanks, dna007.

Shrifty,

Any luck getting through the files I sent you?

-Peter

Sorry to all for the very late response on the updates to this file. I went through the data today (kind of a New Year's Resolution in a way) and got the file updated. Thanks to both
Peter and CaseyGuy for their efforts. I hope to stay on top of this one more frequently, as I have been traveling around to different Whole Foods in the South Region. There is a new one opening up in a few weeks in Jackson Mississippi which will be included in the near future, as well as another one in Texas and Louisiana by the end of this month.

Thanks for your work Shrifty,

Glad I was able to help out on this file.

Cheers and Happy New Year.

-Peter

added Domain, Austin Texas. Coordinates verified, I was at the store this morning. Opening in 5 days.