OT Amazon has officially taken over Whole Foods and are said to be slashing prices on groceries.

It also kills small business as much as people are able to provide goods to their FBA Marketplace.

If they find a supplier of a product they would like to sell like a battery charger or something like that they will often go direct to the manufacturer of those goods and undercut the original supplier, then sell their version under Amazon Basics.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/retail...ty-sellers-using-their-own-data/#56bbe57853d8

 

http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/my-advice-anyone-starting-business-remember-someda-56539

 

This is kinda funny. LOL.

Amazon lowering Whole Foods prices will hurt those who think they're better than you

Whole Foods has long been a top grocery destination for shoppers eager to spend unnecessarily large amounts of money on food that makes them feel superior to others.

Sadly, that dynamic is about to end. Online retailer Amazon is expected to close on its acquisition of Whole Foods next week and will immediately start — hold my locally sourced camel milk — lowering prices.

A company press release quotes Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon Worldwide Consumer, saying: "We're determined to make healthy and organic food affordable for everyone."

Why? Doesn't Amazon care about people who want to send the message "I have too much disposable income — thus the raw Manuka honey I'm spreading on my eco-farmed brown rice cakes — and I want to subtly communicate that under the guise of good health and environmental consciousness"?


Wilke's statement continued: "To get started, we're going to lower prices beginning Monday on a selection of best-selling grocery staples, including Whole Trade organic bananas, responsibly-farmed salmon, organic large brown eggs, animal-welfare-rated 85% lean ground beef, and more."

Good grief. Now eating ground beef that has been animal-welfare-rated won't seem so special. And the days of silently mocking people who eat irresponsibly-farmed salmon are over, all thanks to a corporate giant that sells virtually everything on Earth EXCEPT status.

When I first heard of the Amazon/Whole Foods pairing, I thought there might be hope for the Whole Foods clientele. Perhaps Amazon would deliver fresh-ground almond butter and adzuki bean and sea-salt crackers to the doorsteps of the worthy via drones named Finn, earthy flying machines that were just working at Whole Foods until their alt-folk drone band took off.

But the press release says nothing about drones with man buns. Just a bunch of blah-blah about "lower prices for customers over time."

 

I'd even order Kale if they were delivered by a man-bun sporting drone called Finn. Or Grits. (Just joking about the Grits, I actually like Kale)

 

#64Wins

 

Bet HCP to go on Talkin'Ball with Dwight Jayens and Jason Quick.