People may complain about it all but Whole Foods does a great job at supplying all that stuff that you can't find any where else.
Other grocery stores do not have a better selection of hormone-free and antibiotic-free dairy, poultry and meat items.
When Jeff Bezos plans to cut the number of employees then there will be no more samples, cuz who is going to put those out? Some robot?
And, when he plans to cut the prices of everything what that really means is that the suppliers are going to lose money.
I don't see this takeover as good for anyone except Jeff Bezos.
Other grocery stores have that stuff. Specifically Trader Joes and Sprouts. And the growth of these 3 has caused the “normal” grocery stores to expand into that area. The fact is Whole Foods is expensive because they want to be, that’s their niche, people wanting to pay extra to feel exclusive. Almost everything they have can be gotten for 30% less at the competition, only thing you don’t get is the faux exclusive atmosphere. And TJs and Sprouts both do samples, so that can happen with price cuts too.
Really the amount of angst this deal is causing is hilarious. Really folks, it’s a buy out, they happen, every day. Yup Amazon is getting deeper into the last mile. Doesn’t mean they’re taking over the grocery industry. Yeah WF might change, all things change, but there’ll still be some source for that, there’s always a market for faux exclusive.
One might say that a company like AMZN is “anti capitalism”
Everywhere they go, they destroy legitimate businesses. An interesting commie/socialist strategy....
If WF keeps it’s Organic, farm-fresh theme it will succeed.
If it abandons it, others will take that place in the market.
.....Most people I know who shop at Whole Foods go in there for just a few items. They go to another grocery store for all the other stuff.....
That includes me!!!!
I have loved to shop—and eat—at Whole Foods in large part because of its independence! The (largely conservative) populists who prefer to eat at locally-owned restaurants rather than chains may well have enjoyed Whole Foods, too.
Having Whole Foods taken over by a globalist oligarch who also owns the Deep-State Washington Post is like a punch in the stomach!!!! That is despite reading and understanding business articles that explain why Whole Foods sold out to Bezos/Amazon. What a screwed up system we have!!!!
I don't think Rush shops for groceries--it's kind of funny to hear him talk about it. Online grocery shopping is not going to help Amazon much because the shipping will be exorbitant. I already order non-perishables from many sources -- this doesn't excite me at all, and I'm a foodie.