But one comment caught my attention:
Amazon and Whole Foods Market are making a surgical strike in the already brutal grocery price war.
Now, I wonder how that aforementioned Liberal, Elitist-Lite clientele will react to hordes of "regular" people...you know, the Great Unwashed they look down their noses at...coming in to 'their' Organic, gentrified haven.
It might be interesting to observe on occasion.
Related to WF clentele, I saw a millennial there pay for a bottle of truffle oil with an EBT card.
Would this only apply with online sales or could you use your prime membership at the stores? How would they know you are a prime member?
I notice in my neck of the woods the big competitor to Whole Food is “Fresh Thymes” and they’ve been having some killer sales on seafood. We’ve gotten some jumbo scallops and lobster tails in the last month that cost half what they usually cost on the shelf. I wonder if this is in response?
Whole Foods, or as it is known ... Whole Paycheck Foods...
ha ha
cutting prices is the answer yes indeedie
carrots there were $8 a pound and that was at least 15 years ago. when carrots were about 39 cents a pound elsewhere
we never went back, ha!
[10 percent off hundreds of sale items and rotating weekly specials such as $10 per pound off wild-caught halibut steaks]
LOL -what a sale /s - haven’t ever been there but I laugh when I see “Whole Paycheck”. I’m sure it’s too expensive for me.
Wear our ICE jackets and MAGA to clear out the ones you mentioned.
It isn’t cutting prices.
The initial price break on a few items was much fanfare and little sizzle as well.
IF you buy into Prime and IF you are in Florida...
A few days ago I checked out the prices at Whole Foods, still way too high. Trader Joe’s always has better prices.
Letting my Alexa subsidized Prime subscription lapse. Not sure when because Amazon keeps extending it when they miss on the free shipping. Never shopped for groceries at either Amazon.com or Whole Foods. Have stopped shopping the warehouses too. Local grocers are very competitive and have better quality meets and produce.
I have a Trader Joe’s & Whole Foods right down the street....I use Traders every time. Better prices & better products. Only went into Whole Foods once. The prices were wack.
I prefer Trader Joe’s and then Sprouts, which to me is like an affordable Whole Foods.
For regular items I love the new Sams Scan and Go app - payment without standing in the checkout line makes it easy to go to Sams at any time.
Bezos wants to put other grocery stores out of business.
I’m lucky in that I can eat mostly local, and there’s another chain that’s a bit better.
But when it comes to food- no compromise. Id don’t have to, so I won’t; I simply don’t care if a meal costs $60 and takes 6 hours to prepare, I refuse to feed my family anything other than the best available; screw anyone who has a problem with that. If the best product is grown/produced by NAZI’s, commies, Antifa idiots (all the same thing, really), gay, straight or slave I’m buying and using it and to hell with anyone who doesn’t care for that.
Whole Paycheck has some great food, that’s the only thing that matters to me.
I doubt many of the Whole Foods locations compete directly with a Walmart. That means Whole Foods is cutting their profits for no reason unless they’re trying to entice previous customers back into their stores after the low or no stock fiasco. Bringing up Walmart is a PR stunt.
I have been looking at the Grocery business and wondering if Sprouts which is selling for about 21.00 per share would be a great stock to buy as either Whole Foods (Amazon) or another player will take out this small boutique Grocer?
Any Thoughts?
Well now they also do delivery ;D. So you don’t even have to see the clientele (in which I am one) if you don’t like.
Uh, if you have a sale by offering $10 off per pound on halibut your prices are too damn high!
Before Amazon took over Whole Foods I could count on good avocados. Last time I went they felt firm enough and the next day I opened one up and it was black on the inside. Bezos thinks he is going to make a bunch a money out of Whole Foods? Not with bad avocados he won’t!
So what is the regular price of halibut steaks there?