Overall, each option was quick and convenient, but I’m not sure I’d buy any of them again.
Molly Allen
It was easy to head into each store and find an apple pie in the first week of September. It was a bit trickier to get a whole one at Whole Foods, but the bakery employee I spoke to was incredibly helpful.
For each store, it’s also possible to call ahead of time and ask the bakery to put a pie aside for you.
But I was disappointed that all three had an underbaked crust. It takes a lot of patience to bake an apple pie — at home, it can take close to an hour — but it seemed like each grocery story didn’t leave the dessert in the oven long enough.
I thought Kroger and Safeway’s pies tasted a bit too artificial and their crusts did not impress me.
If I need to purchase a grocery-store apple pie again, I’d only consider Whole Foods’ option because the flavor was so incredible. But in general, I’d probably just carve out the time to bake my own dessert at home.
