Posted on 01/19/2018 6:17:46 AM PST by grundle
Jet.com is Wal-mart’s “amazon”, and Costco.com is Costco’s “amazon”.
Both are being developed. Neither is as good as amazon yet. But Facebook at one time was not as good as myspace.
As a conservative, if Amazon and Jet were identical shopping experiences, which would you use?
I think whole foods is a test bed. I believe their goal is to delever “JIT” groceries to people’s homes via customer online orders first, and then including interconnectivity of the internet of things later. i.e. refrigerators that automatically order food for you, or you use a panel on the refridgerator (or connected phone app) to order milk when you notice you are out, with a “must be delivered by” date, allowing them to combine individual items into one order.
Nailed it!
I’d like to point out that the article states that this process was implemented prior to the purchase by Amazon.
You could be right, but this decision wasn’t Amazon’s. From the article:
“This new policy was started prior to the chain’s recent purchase by amazon.”
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Facts are stubborn things.
Yep.
They could probably do fairly well running a food delivery service but they do not seem to have a grasp of the grocery store dynamic.
They should hire one of the Meijer Family to give them some pointers.
Why all the bashing on this thread? I like Whole Foods. They have items not available at Publix or Kroger. They are priced the same on same items, and some even cheaper than Pub or Kro. They do, in many cases, carry upgraded products. Good. They have much nicer and tastier prepared foods. Good. They don’t sell a lot of junk food or household products, and I think this may be where they get the hate. “Regular” folks don’t much go in for the fancy recycled paper towels, hipster niche soaps and holistic nutritional supplements.
My Whole Foods dry ages prime beef in-house, sells chicken with actual flavor, and sells whole bean coffee the likes of which the other local stores can’t compare.
This new policy was started prior to the chain’s recent purchase by amazon.
Whole Foods says it adopted this new policy in order to save money.
It is clearly the Zombie Apocalypse.
“Wrecking the brand” is something leftists are getting good at. NFL.... Whole Foods... What’s next?
I’m amazed at the choice and quality at Walmart. I’m able to find stuff there that I used to only find at “high end” grocery stores.
Don’t let the store closings fool you. Walmart is relentless when it comes to efficiency and making money. The recent addition of “attic” shelves in stores and the new stock carts with built in ladders was designed to economize on time spent by stockers. I never saw any articles about that. It was a major redesign of the way stockers work.
That makes no sense whatsoever. No grocery works that way.
Whole Foods was successful for years why switch to stupid?
Yet another reason for me not to shop there. Their prices were already inflated and this just underscores what a sham this chain really is.
Ha! "Just in Time" doesn't even work in a manufacturing environment (Just in Time to be late).
JIT requires a better handle in the supply chain.
The nearby Aldi's has dramatically improved produce quality over the 5 years with dramatically lower prices. (avocados, small, but 39 cents!! Apples 3 pounds for 1.59!) For a long time eggs were 27 cents a dozen.
Costco usually has higher quality but is much more expensive. (5 large avocados $6.) The only produce we get there is 2.5 pounds of spinach for $5.
We used to do 100% of our food shopping at Walmart and used their now discontinued price match. Now with Sprouts, Costco, and Aldi's it's around 5%.
A few years back I used a $25 Whole Foods gift card and was not impressed. The one good thing was the natural rotisserie chicken which was tiny compared to Costco's but was strangely satisfying to the point of craving more. Enough rambling...
Jeez, it looks like old photos of communist Russian markets ...
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