Whole Foods Market - Hoboken, NJ

Whole Foods Market
Opened: December 18, 2025

Owner: Amazon

Previous Tenants: bank > Walgreens

Cooperative: none

Location: 101 Washington St, Hoboken, NJ

Photographed: January 7, 2026

Many early 20th century bank buildings are really beautiful. And these bank buildings have been repurposed in all kinds of ways. My personal favorite, naturally, is as a supermarket. Whole Foods' latest New Jersey store, which opened last month, takes up a gorgeous former bank in downtown Hoboken. It's also the latest Daily Shop -- not to mention the first in New Jersey and the smallest yet, at just 4800 square feet.

The store is located on bustling Washington Street, a block over from a longtime independent natural food store Organic Basic Food. (And I've seen more than one review/post online comparing this store unfavorably to the stalwart independent organic market.) But the main reason to visit this Whole Foods is simply the building it's in.

And that building has been incredibly well-preserved (and/or restored). It was originally the Hoboken Bank for Savings, later becoming various other banks and then a Walgreens around 2010.

Walgreens also had the gorgeous interior on full display, and its splendor is no less with Whole Foods.

The Hell's Kitchen location, which I linked above, is also a former drugstore, though that one was a Rite Aid.

Produce is in the front-right corner, with one short aisle with packaged prepared foods between produce and the checkouts in the front-left corner. The grocery aisles, meat department, and dairy/frozen are at the back of the store.

I'm intrigued to see what becomes of this Whole Foods Daily Shop concept. A Brooklyn location, originally slated to open in mid-December, has seen its opening date pushed back. Reviews on the other three NYC locations' Google Maps pages are lukewarm, averaging around 3.5 stars (that's about where this store is, too, although the one in VA gets slightly better reviews). So it remains to be seen whether this concept resonates with customers.

Baked goods and hot rotisserie chickens are on endcaps here, with the small grocery aisles in the back half of the store.

Meat is in the back-right corner, with dairy on the back wall and frozen in the last aisle on the left side.

The grocery aisles are narrow, but that's to be expected in a city location like this. There's not an inch of wasted space inside this store.

The ceiling and its incredibly well-preserved details are majestic.

As you may recall, this is not the first spectacular bank building that's become a supermarket that I've posted. See this Fine Fare in the Bronx.

As you can see, each department here is scaled down compared to a full-size store. Chains accustomed to large buildings don't always do well scaling down their offerings, just as chains accustomed to smaller stores aren't always able to pull off a larger location.

Here's chips and packaged prepared foods in the aisle between the produce department and the registers, which are to the right below.

All the registers are self-checkout, as is the case in the NYC Daily Shops, with a customer service counter at the front.

That's all for this Whole Foods, but don't miss the rest of today's posts here!

• Whole Foods opens its first New Jersey Daily Shop (this post)
• Shapiro Markets' Bloomingdale and Maplewood stores join Key Food, and a Waldwick location opens
• Plus, don't miss Remembering A&P!