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Old 06-16-2017, 05:49 PM
 
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I hate Wal-Mart. I hope Amazon and Whole Foods puts them ALL the way out of business.
Well, you need to look into Amazon then, you aren't going to like them either. And, what makes you think Whole Food customers are going to still shop there. I'm not walking down aisles filled with crap from China. Hell will freeze over first.
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Old 06-16-2017, 09:17 PM
 
Location: TUS/PDX
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Jeff Bezos had dinner with Donald Trump. Jeff Bezos also owns Washington Post. I wonder if they will lighten up on Trump for that. Ehh!!

Jeff is very anti American. He treat his workers like crap.
I wonder how it's possible that there are fully 150 pages on a sticky thread devoted to trading notes on the how and why's of getting a job there on the Seattle City Data page?
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Old 06-16-2017, 10:04 PM
 
Location: alexandria, VA
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I stopped at my local Whole Paycheck--I mean Whole Foods--today and noticed that the lines were longer than usual and they seemed to be short on checkers. Maybe they've already started cost cutting measures. Fire some workers. Cut back on quality and service. It's already over priced and second rate.
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Old 06-16-2017, 10:30 PM
 
Location: near bears but at least no snakes
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How come we can't just go to the grocery store and buy food? Why do we have to go online, order it, and have it delivered? If I want three bananas, an avocado, and a head of lettuce, I want to pick them out for myself. The store is 15 minutes away and easier to get stuff than by sitting at a computer and ordering it, then waiting. I also don't want to order a ton of stuff that I don't even need just to justify the trouble I have to go to placing an order. Don't want delivery fees either. Maybe just driving to the store to get the stuff and then coming back home will be the next trend?

Trader Joe's is good. I'm not going to do Amazon or Walmart instead of going and buying food. It would be good for the very elderly or disabled though.
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Old 06-17-2017, 09:01 AM
 
Location: TUS/PDX
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I stopped at my local Whole Paycheck--I mean Whole Foods--today and noticed that the lines were longer than usual and they seemed to be short on checkers. Maybe they've already started cost cutting measures. Fire some workers. Cut back on quality and service. It's already over priced and second rate.
Check your car GPS, I think you may have been in a Kroger...
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Old 06-17-2017, 09:09 AM
 
Location: alexandria, VA
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Check your car GPS, I think you may have been in a Kroger...
No Krogers in my area. Lots of Safeways though. They're worse than Whole Foods.
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Old 06-17-2017, 09:19 AM
 
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How come we can't just go to the grocery store and buy food? Why do we have to go online, order it, and have it delivered? If I want three bananas, an avocado, and a head of lettuce, I want to pick them out for myself. The store is 15 minutes away and easier to get stuff than by sitting at a computer and ordering it, then waiting. I also don't want to order a ton of stuff that I don't even need just to justify the trouble I have to go to placing an order. Don't want delivery fees either. Maybe just driving to the store to get the stuff and then coming back home will be the next trend?

Trader Joe's is good. I'm not going to do Amazon or Walmart instead of going and buying food. It would be good for the very elderly or disabled though.
Who says they are going to "Amazon" Whole Foods? Perhaps Bezos saw a great opportunity to add a profitable brand to the Amazon family. Right now, the plan is to leave management in place and leave it alone. I presume that WF will leverage the Amazon platform to start offering a better online shopping and/or delivery experience. What Amazon is really buying is access to WF customer. The goal is get WF shoppers to use the Amazon platform if they want and hopefully buy even more from them.

Wal-Mart just announced they are buying Bonobos, an upscale seller of high end men's clothing that started online and now has brick and mortar stores. The plan is to leave them alone because $98 chinos aren't what Wal-Mart can sell in it's stores. But WM will use Bonobos to generate growth and profit and to teach it's online businesses (walmart.com, jet.com) what made it successful. WM also added modcloth.com and shoebuy.com for the same reasons.
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Old 06-17-2017, 09:56 AM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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How come we can't just go to the grocery store and buy food? Why do we have to go online, order it, and have it delivered? If I want three bananas, an avocado, and a head of lettuce, I want to pick them out for myself. The store is 15 minutes away and easier to get stuff than by sitting at a computer and ordering it, then waiting. I also don't want to order a ton of stuff that I don't even need just to justify the trouble I have to go to placing an order. Don't want delivery fees either. Maybe just driving to the store to get the stuff and then coming back home will be the next trend?

Trader Joe's is good. I'm not going to do Amazon or Walmart instead of going and buying food. It would be good for the very elderly or disabled though.
seconded. I have no interest in getting my groceries online, particularly produce.
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Old 06-17-2017, 10:12 AM
 
Location: Massachusetts & Hilton Head, SC
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Who says they are going to "Amazon" Whole Foods? Perhaps Bezos saw a great opportunity to add a profitable brand to the Amazon family. Right now, the plan is to leave management in place and leave it alone. I presume that WF will leverage the Amazon platform to start offering a better online shopping and/or delivery experience. What Amazon is really buying is access to WF customer. The goal is get WF shoppers to use the Amazon platform if they want and hopefully buy even more from them.

Wal-Mart just announced they are buying Bonobos, an upscale seller of high end men's clothing that started online and now has brick and mortar stores. The plan is to leave them alone because $98 chinos aren't what Wal-Mart can sell in it's stores. But WM will use Bonobos to generate growth and profit and to teach it's online businesses (walmart.com, jet.com) what made it successful. WM also added modcloth.com and shoebuy.com for the same reasons.
I wondered why shoebuy changed it's name.
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Old 06-17-2017, 10:51 AM
 
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seconded. I have no interest in getting my groceries online, particularly produce.
If the delivery was ultra-quick, prices low, and quality generally high I'd be more than happy to give up choosing individual items, even produce.

Of course, good luck doing "ultra-quick, prices low, and quality generally high" and breaking even, much less turning a profit, but if anyone can pull it off it's Amazon.
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