That last part was already a thing of employees. 😂 All I wanted was peanut butter but no almond butter was better

True. The spark went out when Amazon got involved. They treated their customers like Amazon shoppers. Nope, you can't outsource local customer service.

I've noticed the the employees aren't as dedicated as they used to be, but they're definitely cheaper than they used to be also. There are a number of things that are cheaper at Whole Foods than other grocery chains.

I quit right before Amazon bought Whole Foods, before Amazon bought the company Whole Foods probably had one of the most comprehensive health insurance plans ever.

Whole Foods is so boring now. I think amazon just doesn’t know what they’re doing. Ecommerce, especially low-brow e-commerce, is different than high brow brick and mortar retail

Yeah right. That’s BS and we all know it. There is way more to that story than “they fired me for taking my medication”

By not mentioning medication type, I’m gonna guess it created a positive test. If so, could have been avoided by providing the information beforehand… 🙋🏼

@@gags730 ah. I didn’t think of that. I could see OP smoking weed on their lunch break and calling that “fired for taking my medicine”

Unless this is something involving a drug test as MrKim-kv2vv says I'd think you'd have a case for a wrongful termination lawsuit.

​@@shadowninja6689they probably do have a case but the process is so slow they might be better off just finding a different job.

ok

That IS the deciding factor.

Area man prefers cheaper prices…. Revolutionary!

Wholefoods is overrated. You can find same or similar in other places for less. Only good thing about wholefoods is a place to return items back to amazon lol.

​@@sakenu16Yeah, not sure if stores shifted to keep up with Whole Foods or it's always been this way, but I have a decent selection of fruits and vegetables at Walmart and Aldi. Unless Whole Foods is bringing in exotic things not found anywhere else in the U.S., I don't need to go there for their foods (never have and never will). I'm not getting the appeal of Whole Foods, aside from a sense of elitism.

And such is the exact explanation for their struggling financials. People are being priced out of their intentionally premium market segment and flowing down the sector into different brands. Aldi is on the opposite side of things and is the fastest growing grocer in the country. It's as simple as that. Amazon has, at BEST, simple unfortunate timing. It's definitely worth considering if they made a business mistake because 1>transitioning into traditional retail may be arrogant for a tech company, even one with the money to hire anybody it wants while trying to innovate and 2> buying in at the premium end of the market - with a company who has intentionally cultivated being pricey as part of the brand - seems sketchy for a company whose entire reason for existing is primarily slashing costs in existing industries (eCommerce cheaper than retail, amazon eCommerce cheaper than previous eCommerce, Amazon warehousing cheaper than other warehousing, etc).

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definitely overrated. at least have different stuff from other grocery stores like Trader Joe's does@@sakenu16

I agree but often times, the competitors do the same problematic things.

$5 bucks for a pound of potatoes at a reputable, ethical company vs $3 at amazon. Do you really think most people would care when it hits their pockets ?

@@theaconite1400The difference is those competitors are far cheaper

Most people don't care otherwise walmart never would have grown.

and if they use contactless methods too

Wait you pay with a debit card? why? that's literally the least safe way to do it!

Very much should use a credit card to at least get points, but agreed. Credit cards are just as convenient if not more so than palm scanning, AND I'm not selling my biometrics to Amazon

why?@@Ushio01

​@@Ushio01how is it least safe?

@@average_rite If your over charged, defrauded from a rigged scanner or lose it any money lost is gone because it's your current account and is uninsured.

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Time is flowing like it's liquid with no resistance.

Covid lockdown really messed with our sense of time.

I played that a couple of times i thought i was hearing my own things

Yeah. Want me to pass you a calculator?

Amazon made Whole Paycheck pointless. Support local farmers....

That's good haha. I'm going to borrow that one

Half Foods?

Whole Foods is the biggest of Bezos’ blunders…well, right behind his barbaric benefits packages. Dull stores, limited selection…and so on. Half Foods is the perfect handle…

Organic is such a waste of money. Nothing in this world is organic.

Whole Foods was a gem…I drove well out of my area to visit their phenomenal store with the best selection in the city. My Safeway…not even an upscale one…can beat the embarrassing WF store. Definitely a big Bezos blunder…

Why is that strange? Its the way it SHOULD be. No one benefits when large corporations control entire segments of the economy, except for the CEO and shareholders.

@@Thingsyourollupindeed

Wait- Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger were once considered 'luxury' brands? I've only ever seen them as basic, cheap, and common.

​@@InventorZahranYeah, they definitely were luxury at one point.

Then they would be Erehwon.

@@void________That's absolutely crazy to me lmao

I would have to agree, but they would need to hire some real chefs for their prepared foods (hot and salad bars, etc…)

They build and own most of their stores

The day the deal was announced, Amazon’s stock shot up more than what they paid for Whole Foods. Bezos not only completely bought up Whole Foods, but made a profit by doing so.

@@douglaswynn9668 That honestly still sounds expensive to me offhand. I don't know the details about how much it costs to setup a new grocery store, but I'd think that grocery stores probably isn't a business with a very big moat.

probably not just the stores, but also the former stock/market cap too...

The Amazon app is getting as bloated as iTunes before I gave up on everything Apple.

@@MilwaukeeWoman even the Apple Music app has me questioning where I am in the app. The thing I hate the most is getting to the shuffle and replay menu. Why do I have to go to a button and then make my selection in a sub menu! ☠️

Curating? I'm not sure either. Seems like it's all data and AI driven with maybe a bit of human review

Hard to get in... That sounds like a you issue mate. You look for the entrance and not the exit. Still suck though. Their selection sucks. So many stores try peddalijg their stupid brand, and store brand stuff is hit or miss. You really have to buy the specific product to see if it is good. Now I wouldn't mind this if it didn't take up 40% of the goods. Like you can't carry different items? Do you really need 200 boxes of "365" original here at any given time? Can't give different flavors even that other brands sell or something? So I guess I'm complaining about selection. They aren't cheap for Amazon. Amazon needs to make a high end store which what Whole Foods was. Then make a Walmart competitor or something. They are basically as expensive as a state wide grocery market.

And they want you to use your palm to pay ... nope!

You don't pay market cap though there is always 20+% extra as if you just started buying shares on the open market the value would skyrocket so you make a deal with the largest shareholders to not have to let the market push the price up too much.

@@Ushio01 Sure. So shareholders might have allowed Kroger to be sold for $15-16 billion. It's still a better value than Whole Foods, I should say.

To be fair, Whole Foods was still opening stores, and it had better margins on most products. Meanwhile, unions are killing Kroger, who keeps closing stores as non-union competitors offer better customer service and keep their shelves stocked.

@@phoenix5054But you must consider the debt load. EV is often higher than MC and is the actual price paid.

@@weird-guyRevenue without profit is useless

Think it was supposed to be 6 not 16

And they want you to use your palm to pay .. nope!

Issue with grocery stores delivery is they charge by the fucking item some of them. Cheaper to literally get an uber and get the items myself with one other person.

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Having been to many WF stores in different states, the quality of the store can vary A LOT between locations. Idk how it used to be, but only their relatively new locations that were built in new buildings or plazas are good locations. Any store that had to be adapted to an existing location leaves a lot to be desired

Yes I agree I used to know the names of my cashiers & staff miss the banter, shopped at the original WF in Studio city Cali

LMFAO 🤣

Yeah man. Find another job. I'd rather work at a gas station.

@@robinly I do uber lyft, doordash etc. so if I drop whole foods it won't be a huge loss.

And Amazon also has Amazon Fresh which is confusing. Just call all of them Amazon fresh and do one thing right before trying to do two.

No reason to shop at Whole Foods. They once had cake made in their stores. When they decided to ship in frozen cakes and thaw them in the store for $35, I said, I'll pass.

You can algorithm people’s buy habits when comes to food, but only in a broad macro sense for basic food products and the industry has been doing this for decades before Amazon was founded.

@@mkvenner2yup spot on, pattern recognition can get it to a close estimate of buying habits.

According to video, the Krispy Cream donuts idea is associated with the Amazon Fresh stores, which is possibly a different demographic than the Whole Foods . I'm not sure whether it is a big selling point for either, though.

I ate a Krispy Kreme..once. What a vile experience…

@@liannebedard5521 Really? I didn't think they were any better than a regular donut, but "vile"?

@@aksez2u So much sugar my tongue burned. Absolutely no excuse for such a poisonous product. I am an accomplished home donut maker, and have eaten local donuts in at least six states. Dunkin Donuts is so far ahead of this poisonous that the distance is not measurable…

@@liannebedard5521 Interesting. I guess when I'm eating a donut (which is a rare treat), I expect it to be a sugar bomb 😁.

THIS! When I heard about the acquisition, I was dumbfounded. Just...why?! All Amazon had to do was build a bunch of warehouses all over that customers could NOT enter. Then redo a part of their website for food, have some slick curbside pickup solution (or better yet, drive-thru), pay the employees well (yeah, I know...Amazon doesn't do that), and BAM. You got a successful business model.

@davidknightx Yeah I agree that they could have done this a lot better. I mean Jeff Bezos is clearly a smart man and there are surely some reasons behind the scenes that they did this deal. But from the outside, it clearly seems like a strange decision.

I shopped at a fresh n easy store in Phoenix AZ. The manager said it was the highest volume store in the state. They were convenient, had affordable single serving dinners and were nearby- so, they closed and pulled out of the USA??

LOL. Nothing the UK does is ever cheap; UK and cheap don't go together. Tesco is IMO like the "7-11" or "Wawa" store in that it sells stuff at a premium in small stores that are conveniently located. I've only used them overseas, not in the UK.

@@patlynch6517 Apparently so.

@@raylopez99 Tesco is extremely cheap. You can get huge discounts on things at certain times and you can order online to get cheap stuff without having to think too much about it. You can make your shopping go far by just being a bit tactical with it. And quality wise it's much better than the USA I believe.

Isn’t waitrose the better one in the UK? I could be way off but I thought I remember that

Interesting observation. I only went into the prototype Amazon Go in Seattle a couple of times, but this description rings true. Not sure why it feels that way!

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Amazon makes video games too lol. It’s called new world I think.

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