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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All they have is faggity ass craft beers. And it’s all very expensive.
“We have Trader Joe’s.”
That will probably be eaten up soon——we seem to be on track towards having just a couple of dozen big companies in the entire country.
Frightening.
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EBT cards were already accepted. They’re fixing a known problem. Whole Foods was pricing themselves out of the market and already working on fixing their image. The Amazon buyout just gives them more leverage to do it faster.
Or leverage it to increase profitability in other areas. Amazon is a very long view company, they’ll let individual initiative take a long time to reach profitability if they’re moving the company towards goals.
Trader Joe’s was bought by Aldi in 1979. After his death, his Family Trust now owns it
I want my cheap quinoa delivered by drone NOW Bezos!
Ultimately, both companies are logistics companies with a customer service front end. And logistics are all about computers, networks and software.
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For many years Walmart was the largest private user of technology in the world. Sam Walton was no country bumpkin and in a way, Walmart was the Amazon of its day.
Sad it took 32 posts to get to the truth of the matter.
Thanks.
I did not know about Aldi-——it’s hard to know what owns what these days.
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“Walmart was the Amazon of its day”
Agreed, but they have been eclipsed a hundredfold by Amazon.
I wish there were a Whole Foods or other grocery that was into their array of healthy food choices. But I'm with you....I don't feel confident about having fresh, frozen, or refrigerated foods being delivered to me.
On avocados, this: Make sure you are only buying Haas avocados (dark green, bumpy skin, smaller). The larger, smooth, lighter green Florida avocados are horrible and taste exactly like your description.
No fooling, a true Whole Foods experience of mine follows...
One Saturday, I woke up way too early and at the same time had an urge for a Saturday afternoon of leisurely watching football with some wine, cheese and French bread. Weird I know, no beer, but there you go.
So, I drove a couple of miles to Whole Foods, picked out a nice red and the fresh baked French bread with the final area the cheese corner of the store. Here, I had no idea what to do, wondered around a bit before asking a girl working behind the counter for some advice for a cheese. She mentioned several, none of which I had any experience with. Next though, she offered me some samples and I tried several. The surprise came when she said that I couldn't properly gage the cheese without some wine so produced a bottle of red from behind the counter and poured us both a paper cup of wine. What a very pleasant time drinking wine, nice cheese and good conversation. Spent way too much on cheese but what the heck. LOL...
Wonder if Amazon can sustain that level of customer service? Hope so!
Beer? Beer is for Wla-Mart.
Whole Foods doesn't do beer, they do wine, you know that stuff you drink out of a little glass that you hold between your thumb and trigger finger with your other three fingers held in the air like as if you were playing a flute.
Wine, the stuff you smell, I reckon to make sure it's not rotten, before you drink it.
Staff were already being cut before sale.
I am connected to this industry, and I know.
Q: Was that in anticipation of acquisition’s effect, or because WF was struggling and therefore vulnerable?
Been there too. WF flagship store is leftist village unto itself.
It just makes reporting the desperately needed truth more... streamlined.
Real fascism.
See NAZI Germany and Messerschmitt.
WF used to sell Adbusters magazine at checkout: flaming commie rag.
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