OT: Amazon to Buy Whole Foods

[gdw]

I've never been a fan of the company since they purchased the natural grocery store near us and pretty much kept their inventory but jacked up the prices dramatically, 25-30 percent on most of the items I bought regularly. They also have been fined for selling meat that weighed less than what was listed on the package, violating hazardous waste laws, and allegedly had unwritten policies that screwed their lower level employees out of their bonuses. Hopefully things will improve with the new owners.

[Clean39T]

Originally Posted by mistermo

THIS!! WF is my on the road restaurant with Chipotle in 2nd!

Buddy is strategic consultant to WalMart. Says they saw this coming in the battle of the titans. He said in a decade, it'll only be WM and Amazon remaining. Everyone in between is toast. Today's crash in big box retailers with groceries seems to bear this out.

What's funny is WalMart and Target often have all the organic stuff, usually (though not always) at better prices - I just hate stepping foot inside their stores...

[Clean39T]

Originally Posted by gdw

I've never been a fan of the company since they purchased the natural grocery store near us and pretty much kept their inventory but jacked up the prices dramatically, 25-30 percent on most of the items I bought regularly. They also have been fined for selling meat that weighed less than what was listed on the package, violating hazardous waste laws, and allegedly had unwritten policies that screwed their lower level employees out of their bonuses. Hopefully things will improve with the new owners.

Nature's Grocery in PDX?

[zap]

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Originally Posted by mistermo

Buddy is strategic consultant to WalMart. Says they saw this coming in the battle of the titans. He said in a decade, it'll only be WM and Amazon remaining. Everyone in between is toast. Today's crash in big box retailers with groceries seems to bear this out.

Time will tell.

Another huge German grocer is coming and the other is expanding.

[raygunner]

Just the other day we bought some stuff at WF & as usual, brought our own bag so we can save 10 cents.

Typically I like to have that 10 cents deducted from my balance but the guy at the register said "I'll just donate your bag rebate" without a request or my approval.

I didn't really like that, it just came off wrong. Petty, yes. I know!

But I had to correct him and noted that that since at that point the stock was lagging for a few years I'll just keep those cents. I noted that I'll start donating once that stock rebounds.

Anyways, I'm going to donate for sure now. I'm thinking about donating myself a new Big Green Egg!

[gdw]

Wild Oats, Boulder.

[jemoryl]

Seen elsewhere on the web:

Bezos: “Alexa, buy me something from Whole Foods”

Alexa: “Buying Whole Foods”

Bezos: S**t

[nash]

Originally Posted by EDS

It could be that part of Amazon's rationale in making the acquisition is to put an end to Google's delivery services for Whole Foods.

I think so. I was just speaking to a wf employee and we came to a similar conclusion

[cadence90]

Originally Posted by gianni

Sweet. Even more reason to avoid amazon. I will pass on $6.0 pre-peeled orange.

PCC, Met market and Trader's will thrive. Bring it on.

Originally Posted by bobdenver1961

The funny (or not so funny) truth is that some people bought these $6.00 oranges!

Wait. Those are real, and not a joke? WT..........

[cadence90]

Originally Posted by jemoryl

Seen elsewhere on the web:

Bezos: “Alexa, buy me something from Whole Foods”

Alexa: “Buying Whole Foods”

Bezos: S**t

[pinkshogun]

My friend works at WF. They stagger his hours from week to week so he cant get another job but it's a great place to get whole tumeric and ginger

[julseas]

Amazon is notoriously terrible to its employees (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/t...workplace.html)

WF is supposedly great. I wonder if that will change.

[Clean39T]

Originally Posted by gdw

Wild Oats, Boulder.

That was going to be my second guess..

Has the Vitamin Cottage / Natural Grocer hung in there?

[Clean39T]

Originally Posted by julseas

Amazon is notoriously terrible to its employees (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/t...workplace.html)

WF is supposedly great. I wonder if that will change.

Something tells me it's not Amazon that's going to change..

[merlinmurph]

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Not sure how Whole Foods is only worth 13.7B when that's how much it costs to get your weekly groceries there.