Amazon buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion

CBS News ^ | 16 June 2017 | Ivanova, I & Harding, J.

[Grams A]

Have never looked at the on-line order form for Kroger so am just responding on what I have seen. Three young ladies were filling up shopping buggies with their clipboards in hand which contained the customer’s order. All were in the cereal section as was I. All three picked up the largest box of Kellogg’s for their customers. May be what the customer specified but there are other brands which are considerably less expensive. Of course I have a long list of brands I don’t buy any more strictly because of brand/politics or country of origin.

I see Kroger’s stock has really been down the last couple of days. Guess they have to offer what their competition does because it may help to save some of their customer base. Perceived convenience seems to trump everything else nowadays.

Back in the 1960’s my mom worked for a company as a home economist. She would go into the home and take food orders for families which would provide everything they needed that was dry or frozen to last them a minimum of six months. Back then we had milkmen who delivered all the dairy products, people had gardens for fresh vegetables and fruit and canned in the summer. Guess they were just ahead of their time.

[lacrew]

I've perused the ordering system for Wal Mart...you search for 'cereal' and it gives you a thousand options, which you can whittle down. So you get to choose the brand and size.

But you do bring up what I believe is potentially a pitfall - and that's the employees, clipboards in hand, in the aisle with two huge carts full of bins. They can get in the way of us traditional shoppers...to the point of being annoying.

[i_robot73]

>More ammo for Trump to take the antitrust sledgehammer to Mr. Bezos.

A.T.?? Nobody talks about that anymore. Not even after the loan bubble (created BY govt). Entities STILL “too big to fail (but not too big to illegally receive taxpayer $$$)”, not a DAMN thing done during (R) nor (D) ‘rule’. Course, why bite the hand that feeds you, or, in this case, stuffs your wallet/bank account full of $$.

I can’t even recall anything since the telecom bust-up. Not as if there’s not a lot of targets either: H’Care, media (TV/news/papers), cable, banks, unions (:P), etc.

[SamAdams76]

Yes, black licorice. There will be black licorice and that is the best kind of licorice. This was a genius move by Amazon. Blue Apron and other food delivery systems were starting to gain serious ground in the space.

Now Amazon will be preparing meals ready to cook and shipping them en masse to yuppies and others with disposable income all across America. And the majority of Americans are extremely affluent (compared to rest of world) and will soon be taking most of their food delivered directly to their homes as opposed to moving around supermarkets with awkward carts, dodging the extremely fat people in the motorized carts and then having to stand in line waiting to have their purchases scanned in and bagged by pimply teenagers and then having to navigate to the parking lot where the badly loaded bagged groceries are loaded into the back of SUVs and Volvos for the drive home.

Receiving food at home is the future and soon there will be very few supermarkets and they will be patronized by lower class people with very low, fixed, incomes.

Belgian endive is coming to a driveway near you, packed in dry ice, in a clean white van, driven by some pimply faced Amazon worker.

[poconopundit]

Hey T-Bone,

I’m afraid tats are the new “normal”.

Now I suppose if my wife should leave me, and given my age and wrinkles, green hair would probab

[poconopundit]

Hey T-Bone,

I’m afraid tats are the new “normal”.

Now I suppose if my wife should leave me, and given my age and wrinkles, green hair would probably be looking might fine.

[Salvation]

Sad as far as I am concerned since Amazon support abortion.

[eddie willers]

Amazon is a leftist’s horizontally integrated tax avoidance scheme.

That may be true, but it is also the best retail outlet I have ever seen.

And I've seen many.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Got behind an old hippie at the local Whole Foods a few months ago. He was buying some organic fresh veggies, enough to half fill one of those hand carry baskets. In a normal grocery store, they would have cost maybe 10 bucks. His bill was over $35.

[NautiNurse]

Seems like tats and freaky piercings are required to get hired

Story today describes that for wholesome Whole Foods workers, fears of robots, drones and culture clash.

LOL

[T-Bone Texan]

Good article. Thanks for sharing it.