RATS aren't smart enough to understand the business model of a lemonade stand
Posted on 09/08/2018 12:01:20 PM PDT by Cecily
Workers at Whole Foods are looking to unionize after rumors parent company Amazon are planning mass layoffs in an order to reduce costs.
It's not the first time Whole Foods workers have tried to organize themselves but it is the first attempt since Amazon bough the company.
The email reveals strains between managers and lower-level employees at the supermarket chain.
'Over the past year, layoffs and the consolidations of store-level positions at Whole Foods Market have upset the livelihood of team members, stirred, anxiety, and lowered moral [sic] within stores,' the email states.
It alleges Whole Foods CEO John Mackey sold the store to Amazon 'with an agreement to trim hundreds of millions of dollars of labor from our stores.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It might be more like Business 101 for Bezos. Look what he did with bookstores. He undercut them, putting most of them out of business. We consumers get cheaper books, but no longer have the browsing and ambiance.
With Whole Foods, it's a balancing act. He has to maintain the brand reputation while he destroys the competition.
Historically, its net margin has varied between 5% and -5%.
Unionize and make Bezos pay fair wages.
Same with Amazon.
I know that tell it to Sammy A 76
You are just determined to be contrary so it would be a waste of time to point out where you are wrong.
“He has to maintain the brand reputation while he destroys the competition.”
uh, right. Whole Foods is a nothing but a pimple on the butt of the likes of Kroger, Inc., Costco, Sams, Walmart, and Safeway.
The reason Whole Foods was for sale in the first place was because all of THE above were eating Whole Foods’ lunch by moving into their organic niche in a big way.
“but the bottom line is the quality of the meat, the produce, etc., exceeded that of other chains nearby.”
and around here, charged at least triple what everyone else was charging ... except for the label of “organic” I never found their meat to be better than Costco’s ...
Jeff Bezos = Lex Luthor.
He owns the Daily Planet (Washington Post) as his propaganda tentacle, and wants to run the world via Lexcorp (Amazon) and its vast assortment of other subsidiary, vertical down-line, tentacles - replete with governmental subsidizing.
RATS aren't smart enough to understand the business model of a lemonade stand
I know this industry intimately. I have been told by reresentatives and brokers how Amazon is damaging third parties and destroying employee morale a Whole Foods.
I know the details, and it is not pretty.
(But, hey, free market, and all that. /sarcoff)
To all Cookie-Cutter Conservatives:
Get rid of the entire welfare state that effectively and vastly favors big business over small business, remove the many tax loopholes for multi-national corporations, require elected representatives to write their own legislation (and punish those who accept any de facto bribery from said multi-national corporations), then get back to me.
Jeff Bezos is a crony communist - like Mark Zuckerberg.
= at Whole Foods.
I don’t think our WF typically charges triple. Maybe a few items. But we didn’t typically buy an item at WF if it was that much more expensive, unless it was REALLY a lot better, and we were treating ourselves. More items are double or almost double, but most items are close to what we’ll find at the chains.
However, here in our neighborhood, Fresh Market is giving them a run for the money. Somewhat better prices, and they seem to be more selective with their wholesalers, and bother to eliminate the produce and meat that don’t meet quality standards, in much the same way as WF once did.
The problem is, we can walk to the WF. It’s less than a 1000 feet away from us. Even though the Fresh Market is only about a mile, we need to get in the car to go there.
I checked ours out and left not buying anything...I can’t believe people will pay those prices, much higher than Kroger almost next door. Amazing.
I was under the impression that WF is more than an annoyance. They siphon off deep pocket customers. The other market that will suffer is the small gourmet-type sellers, the ones that innovate with new brands and products. Ironically, a lot of them run their online business on Amazon.
“Fresh Market is giving them a run for the money”
we have “Sprouts” plus a state-wide chain called “Natural Grocers” and a smaller regional chain called “Luckys” that all compete in Whole Foods’ niches ... not to mention Safeway with their excellent “Organics” line ... and even Costco and Sams in some of the areas ... really, the big boys are jumping in with lots of healthier stuff too ... all in all, lots of healthy competition keeping everyone on their toes ...Whole Foods has all kinds of competition all over the place after dominating the organic/healthy/super-upscale market sufficiently that they could essentially gouge people on lots of their prices ... it’s kinda the same situation as with what’s going to happen with Tesla ... break the ground with something avant-garde and then once proved successful, watch the megaliths steal the show by imitating and dominating with mass production and mass marketing ...
I bought 50 lbs. of boneless, skinless chicken breasts at Aldi three weeks ago for $1.69/lb.
That must be some trick to raise skinless chickens.
This is an interesting link. It will list WF stores by state, when a state is entered:
https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/list/state
California has so many, Amazon could basically eliminate most local deliveries in California by having pickup at their stores. They could offer a 5% cash back if you pickup your prime order at a former WF store.
We are seeing an interesting trend with the over age 65 couples we know.
They are ordering their weekly meals kits which are delivered once a week to their homes.
As expected, the women who don’t want to cook anymore are customers. However, we have friends, who just don’t want to shop anymore nor cook 7 days a week, buying their weekly meals delivered once a week. These women are good cooks and their husbands have been shopping for their meals. Now they are ready to change those habits.
Most if not all Whole Food Stores have commercial kitchens in their stores. Overnight, those WF stores could become creators of Meals on Wheels and well as Amazon warehouses.
My comment was simply the passing along of a rumor.
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