I've loved Whole Foods Market since going to their *original* store while in college! At that time, "hummus" was considered an exotic food ;-)
Whole Foods is great, It is even better since August of 2017 when they merged with Amazon, and I get discounts there now
Full disclosure: I work for Whole Foods! Pretty sweet discounts, huh?! They've of course grown well outside of Austin -- including overseas.
Ive always wanted to visit Austin, its the fastest growing large city in the United States!
It *is* growing, and still retains its soul. I was born here, which with the kind of grown the city has experienced -- is kind of unusual now!
But whole Foods has 473 Stores worldwide now.  Thats a big expansion 
We've lived in a lot of cities, and I always loved when a Whole Foods would open -- it felt like a hometown kid done good!
Thats awesome, probably made you feel right at home too!