AT THE WASHINGTON POST!!!!!
Posted on 02/13/2018 8:22:53 PM PST by zeestephen
Whole Foods is changing the way it does business with suppliers, and some local and regional brands say it's having a crippling impact on their business. [Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com bought Whole Foods 5 months ago, but the words "Bezos" and "Amazon" never appear in the article!]
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Whole Foods opened a "365" store in my local upscale mall about one year ago. "365" sells a smaller selection of organic foods at lower prices.
About two months after Bezos bought Whole Foods, Amazon closed the "365" store. Employees and the mall management got like 2 hours notice.
The mall is suing Amazon for breaking the lease and other contractual issues.
Beaks has crippled EaPo and is destroying Whole Foods
Guess he’s not as smart as he thought he was
My understanding, and the article confirms, is that these policies started before Bezos bought them. Selling the 365 stores probably was hit the supply rules changed with them trying to be more profitable. The question is whether or not Bezos can right the sinking ship.
I’ll never go there, I’ve never seen so many recalls from one retailer before. If I want to go that route there’s a Wegman’s closer to me.
They have pissed off their employees, they have pissed off customers.....
Haven’t pissed off this customer. Everything is the same except for lower prices on some items.
Amazon is now looking into starting their own shipping business. FedEx and UPS will clean his clock.
Night Hides Not wrote:
“Amazon is now looking into starting their own shipping business. FedEx and UPS will clean his clock.”
They already have their own parcel delivery service.
FedEx and UPS tracking is better.
boo fricking hoo, those are standard policies of ALL the other big grocery store chains. Leftist professor’s wives who shop there, stoners who work there, and “artisans” who sell their hand-made organic goat cheese compote wafer samiches are upset that Whole Foods isn’t “special” anymore.
AT THE WASHINGTON POST!!!!!
LOL! Nailed it!
Bezos has recently opened a food and sundries store with no employees. Pick everything needed off the shelf, it is immediately scanned to one’s Amazon account and paid by payment methods stored on the account.
Pick it off the shelf and walk out the door.
Some of the policies, yes.
But, Whole Foods agreed to be purchased in June 2017, so I will speculate that negotiations began at least a month or two before that, which means Whole Foods executives began responding to the “The New Boss” buy-out almost one year ago.
The “365” store that closed in my area was a really interesting location (upscale mall - upscale neighborhood), but there are two very competitive grocery stores within walking distance, plus, I'm sure it cannibalized business from a very busy Whole Foods store just two miles away.
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I’ll never use that procedure. It is only for those cool dudes who don’t want to stand behind a blue collar working man at the checkout.
“Amazon is now looking into starting their own shipping business. FedEx and UPS will clean his clock.”
They already have their own parcel delivery service.
FedEx and UPS tracking is better.
That has not been my experience. I order from Amazon Prime all the time. Most of my orders are delivery via USPS.
The one’s that are delivered via Amazon seem to have the same tracking, and I also get a photo showing my package on my front porch.
UPS rules business shipping. Don’t know if Amazon is going after that.
Say what you want about bezos...fact is amazon has improved my quality of life substantially and i wont apologize about it...damn near anything under the sun delivered to my door in an hour or two at a comparable or lower price than i can get at a local store? I call that civilization
I think it is going to catch on all over the country. Essentially one needs a credit card to get in the door. If every mall did this, the feral yutes would have to find some other place to hang out, shoplift, and harass the paying customers.
The working man at the checkout is not the problem.
When Amazon bought Whole Foods, I predicted this was not going to work out well for Amazon. Pissing off employees, vendors and customers from the get-go is never a good idea.
Someone is going to start up a competing business modeled after the Whole Foods concept and take their business. What happens if those more popular vendors create a co-op and open up a small stores in nice strip malls and sell only non-perishable goods.
Those nonperishable goods can easily be sold on line. Would be kind of ironic if they sold them on Amazon where Prime members can get free shipping.
Would not be surprised if Amazon sells off Whole Foods at a serious discount within two years.
I understand. But there is no more checkout, it’s simply walkout.
When I took my first Uber taxi, after reaching my destination, I reached for my wallet to get a payment card because I was so used to doing that. The driver told me he didn’t take any plastic, that I was good to go and that Uber would charge my card directly and I could mark a tip on the email they sent me.
It felt weird but I got used to it.
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