Amazon buying Whole Foods

[ghostrunner]

Feel free to move to politics if it moves that way. Wouldn't be surprising.

Interesting move. Amazon just opened a store a while back that automatically charges you for what you buy when you leave. And people are speculating they'll be getting further into food delivery.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Feel free to move to politics if it moves that way. Wouldn't be surprising.

Interesting move. Amazon just opened a store a while back that automatically charges you for what you buy when you leave. And people are speculating they'll be getting further into food delivery.

Maybe they can lower some of the damn prices. There's a whole foods on my way home. It's so convenient to stop there. But, [expletive] hell their meat is twice the price of Kroger. Except ground chicken. We eat a lot of ground chicken.

[ghostrunner]

Feel free to move to politics if it moves that way. Wouldn't be surprising.

Interesting move. Amazon just opened a store a while back that automatically charges you for what you buy when you leave. And people are speculating they'll be getting further into food delivery.

Maybe they can lower some of the damn prices. There's a whole foods on my way home. It's so convenient to stop there. But, [expletive] hell their meat is twice the price of Kroger. Except ground chicken. We eat a lot of ground chicken.

I would bet on it.

[Famous Mortimer]

If it helps us consumers out (which it probably won't) then fine, I guess.

I'm just glad there are no dystopian novels about the dangers of too much stuff being collected in too few hands, though.

[ghostrunner]

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

The sale price is equivalent to 428 Million pounds of their grass fed beef tenderloin, fwiw.

[heyzeus]

The sale price is equivalent to 428 Million pounds of their grass fed beef tenderloin, fwiw.

This is the proper way to measure the economic impact of this acquisition.

So, the few retail industries that aren't about to be decimated by Amazon are restaurant and grocery. With this move, Amazon ticks off one of them.

The good news is that the America of 2027 will have plenty of places for the multitude of former retail-employee homeless to encamp in the burned out husks of our strip malls.

[cardsfantx]

it's like that movie with Sylvester Stallone (demolition man, i think??) where he wakes up in the future after a war or something and taco bell is the only restaurant to survive, now every restaurant is taco bell.

[Famous Mortimer]

Only "Demolition Man" had the good grace to be a dystopia, not a roadmap.

[sighyoung]