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Amazon’s takeover of Whole Foods begins Monday — and you’ll see lower prices right away
Washington Post ^ | August 24, 2017 | Abha Bhattarai

Posted on 08/24/2017 11:45:40 AM PDT by be-baw

Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods Market will be finalized Monday, and shoppers will see an immediate markdown in prices on a number of items, including salmon, avocados, baby kale and almond butter.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amazon; amazonwholefoods; ecommerce; grocery; merger; wholefoods
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To: goldstategop

Amazon Whole Foods vs Walmart SuperCenters.

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Yep things are changing for sure. Don’t forget
the Google Express and Walmart combine.


21 posted on 08/24/2017 12:18:50 PM PDT by deport
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To: be-baw

There are Trader Joe’s and Sprouts here that are excellent — I’ll most likely never set foot in Whole Foods.


22 posted on 08/24/2017 12:19:43 PM PDT by Moonmad27
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To: be-baw

They’ll still be overpriced and infested with progressives.


23 posted on 08/24/2017 12:20:55 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Obadiah

“Whole Foods will become a very important tax write-off for Amazon as Amazon doesn’t really care about Whole Foods.”

I don’t think Amazon makes a profit for tax purposes. I don’t think they pay federal taxes.

Amazon will pay almost 14 billion, roughly 27 percent premium to the stock price. John Mackey, Whole Foods’ outspoken co-founder, will continue to run the business.

That is a huge investment. If Whole Foods loses money, which is very likely if they substantially lower prices, the loses will get very big.


24 posted on 08/24/2017 12:22:24 PM PDT by detective
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To: grania

Amazon is starting to feel pressure from Wal-Mart and local grocery chains (H-E-B in Texas, Meijer in Michigan) who are firing up grocery services where you can drive up and have someone load your groceries into your car.

Walmart and grocery stores have brick and mortar locations in neighborhoods across the fruited plain. I suspect Amazon wants a larger brick and mortar presence, and access to their supply chains so as to push back at the competition.


25 posted on 08/24/2017 12:23:40 PM PDT by Crolis ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -GKC)
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To: be-baw

“....including salmon, avocados, baby kale and almond butter”

GREAT!!!

/s


26 posted on 08/24/2017 12:27:31 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: 1Old Pro

Beer when you can have a baby kale smoothie?????


27 posted on 08/24/2017 12:29:28 PM PDT by zerosix ( Native Sunflower)
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To: be-baw

Before my dad retired he was a Whole Foods vendor.
Dad sold them all of the Whole Food branded bread,(Baked by Country Kitchen by the way) Eng muffins, flat bread, cookies, some crappy super expensive tomato sauce, etc.. to a bunch of stores in MA.
I helped him out a lot of times, all that bread is HEAVY.
Every visit to WF was like a freak show at the local traveling circus.
the prices were outrageous and i will NEVER step in another one again.


28 posted on 08/24/2017 12:34:53 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Signalman

Tool Crib of the North usually had the lowest prices around until Amazon purchased them, and then their prices jumped about ten percent.


29 posted on 08/24/2017 12:36:40 PM PDT by caltaxed (ui)
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To: Mermaid Girl

I go to one Whole Foids in October because they carry Holiday grapes


30 posted on 08/24/2017 12:37:49 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: grania

Amazon has “Amazon Fresh” service in some areas. They deliver to your door on buyers schedule.

I’m really leery of any on-line food delivery service. Like to see, feel, and smell fruit, veggies, meat, and fish for freshness and quality.

Frozen meat and seafood in opaque packages are off my list regardless who sells them. Too many times I’ve gotten things that had defrosted and been re-frozen, just plain rotten. And from supposedly respectable big chain stores.


31 posted on 08/24/2017 12:38:20 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: be-baw

This article is a baldfaced ad for Jeff Bezos.

Bezos owns the Washington Post.

Bezos owns Whole Foods.


32 posted on 08/24/2017 12:46:27 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: be-baw
I avoid “organic” food for several reasons...one being political,another being cost.
33 posted on 08/24/2017 12:59:21 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: JimRed
They’ll still be overpriced and infested with progressives.

When visiting Austin Texas, the Whole Foods store there reminds me of Berkeley California. Austin has bizarre libs there and they congregate at Whole Foods. And it's overpriced.

34 posted on 08/24/2017 1:01:14 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: proust

Who cares,it’s not my 13.7 Billion,but I think Whole Foods will never be the same. I can’t believe that was the only place where I shopped when I was younger! I don’t like snotty shoppers and overpriced food anyway. I am cheap,I go to Aldi.


35 posted on 08/24/2017 1:02:47 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: be-baw
Good. That was one of the reasons I dislike Whole Foods.

Now if they could just get rid of the New Age, granola eating, Liberal, smug old Hippies...it would be great.

36 posted on 08/24/2017 1:06:23 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: goldstategop

“Amazon Whole Foods vs Walmart SuperCenters.”

There’s an enormous cost...and quality difference in those two establishments.

And you can bet Bezos will leverage the Amazon logistics network to give Walmart a serious scare on price.

Ultimately, both companies are logistics companies with a customer service front end. And logistics are all about computers, networks and software.

Advantage Amazon. They have that 100X over Walmart. Half the friggin’ internet goes into and out of Amazon. They are also the largest cloud hosting company in the world.

It appears only government force can stop them from becoming the only retail company in the world.


37 posted on 08/24/2017 1:10:42 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: MarvinStinson

Liberals love owning their own propaganda outlets.

Works well on the sheeple.


38 posted on 08/24/2017 1:10:44 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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[This article is a baldfaced ad for Jeff Bezos.

Bezos owns the Washington Post.

Bezos owns Whole Foods.]

I’m sure someone was “tasked” with writing this “news”.

Gotta make it appear coincidental. Like a “botched robbery”.


39 posted on 08/24/2017 1:12:16 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: be-baw

Ha. We have Trader Joe’s. F*** Whole Foods.


40 posted on 08/24/2017 1:20:10 PM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL - F*** A Bunch Of Liberals)
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