Organic Grocery Closes Just 3 Months After Opening In PLG

PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS, BROOKLYN — An organic grocery store has closed its doors and put all its new equipment up for auction months after launching in the neighborhood.

Wholesome 360 on Nostrand Avenue and Lenox Road will sell off all the equipment from its kitchen, juice bar and grocery store during an auction Thursday afternoon, according to an auctioneer listing.

An Wholesome 360 LLC owner who declined to share his name said Wholesome 360 was not closing for financial reasons.

"It's more personal, but I can't really disclose it," he said. "We just wanted to thank the community neighbors. We definitely loved being here."

The grocery store, which first opened in April, specialized in organic products and served bagels, sandwiches and a menu of prepared international foods such as sweet potato banh-mi, chicken musakhan and a rosy cordon bleu, according to Yelp and Seamless.

The cafe and juice bar — equipped with a La Marzocco Linea espresso machine and a Santos 68 fruit and vegetable juicer — also included five cafe tables where shoppers could sit and enjoy a latte, smoothie or a croissant.

Owners will sell off slew of equipment that includes a meat saw, waffle iron, and char broiler, as well as freezers, cases, track lighting, shopping baskets and even their stock of paper napkins, the MetroAuction listing shows.

Wholsome 360 will also be selling its massive bulk food station and all the coffees, granolas, nuts and dried food they intended to sell inside it.

The auction is slated to begin at 12:30 p.m. and buyers are asked to remove equipment by 4 p.m. Saturday.