“Amazon, which owns Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh, hopes to transform itself from a high-end, specialty grocer (nicknamed “Whole Paycheck”) into a home delivery vendor of essentials and store-branded goods under private labels with names like Aplenty and Happy Belly. Amazon aims to leverage its last-mile advantage, built over years of development, to do an end run around Walmart”
so far, i don’t see much progress towards the above in the local whole paycheck ... produce still costs almost double compared to all the other local grocery stores, and much of that is WAY past its prime from sitting around too long from not being bought ...
everything else i’ve priced at whole paycheck is still WAY more expensive than elsewhere, and store employees generally STILL have an attitude that whole paycheck is “special” and that therefore THEY are “special” too because they work in such a “special” place ... [the customers ALSO have that “i am special because i shop at whole paycheck” attitude as well]
consequently, i avoid the local whole paycheck like the plague ...
When ACB was in hearings for SCOTUS, the paparazzi stalked her. One day she was unloading a carful of While Foods bags. I knew she would be an uppity problem.
Phew, I thought that my mind was gone.
I’ve been in one a handful of times and the prices are extraordinarily high.
Re: 3 - I have to pick my spots at Whole Foods like other stores.
There’s some items I get from them which are good quality. More expensive but worth it (to me) but I try to shop the sale items when possible. They’re not the major store I go to but more of a supplemental stop.
Only thing I can get at Whole Foods is Rummo pasta and a big bottle of sake.
Everything else is pretentiously over priced.