Whole Foods To Open In-Store Bar In Hawaii

/
Reading time: 1 minute.

Coming soon to a Whole Foods Market near you: a bar.

The upscale grocer already serves fresh gelato and hot food. Now, the retail chain will tend bar, selling craft beer and local wine in more than a dozen test stores — including in Hawaii — before a wider roll-out.

Hawaii will get its bar by 2012, says co-CEO Walter Robb.

In the past 18 months, locally-focused bars have opened in five Whole Foods Markets in California, and two each in Arizona, Illinois and Texas. Its newest bar in Austin has about 20 seats and offers beer and wine by the glass for $4 to $10, or growler jugs starting at $6.99.

Meantime, other chains including Starbucks are slowly introducing beer and wine to their wares.

Read it at .

We need your help.

Unfortunately, being named a finalist for a Pulitzer prize doesn’t make us immune to financial pressures. The fact is, our revenue hasn’t kept pace with our need to grow,Ìý.

Civil Beat is a nonprofit, reader-supported newsroom based in ±á²¹·É²¹¾±Ê»¾±. We’re looking to build a more resilient, diverse and deeply impactful media landscape, and we hope you’ll help by .