Report: Amazon planning to open new (non Whole Foods) grocery stores

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Re: Report: Amazon planning to open new (non Whole Foods) grocery stores

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Amazon is terrible at running grocery stores. The quality and pricing at Whole Foods has gotten worse.

What Amazon should do is buy a well run chain such as Wegmans and expand that chain. Let Wegmans run their Whole Foods stores and it will improve drastically.

Then Amazon could buy a well run affordable chain such as Sprouts and use them to run a small format low priced grocery store.

Getting rid of the 365 chain is just an excuse to charge higher prices. Why sell discounted organic food when you can charge even more with a regular Whole Foods branded store?
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Re: Report: Amazon planning to open new (non Whole Foods) grocery stores

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Alpha8472 wrote: March 3rd, 2019, 1:56 pm Amazon is terrible at running grocery stores. The quality and pricing at Whole Foods has gotten worse.

What Amazon should do is buy a well run chain such as Wegmans and expand that chain. Let Wegmans run their Whole Foods stores and it will improve drastically.

Then Amazon could buy a well run affordable chain such as Sprouts and use them to run a small format low priced grocery store.

Getting rid of the 365 chain is just an excuse to charge higher prices. Why sell discounted organic food when you can charge even more with a regular Whole Foods branded store?
Sprouts may actually be a pretty good target for them. Sprouts has been trying to sell itself for a while and more recently the CEO left or is about to leave. Sprouts runs good, small, efficient stores that people like to shop. Sprouts needs to work on its customer service and employee turnover. It is really impacting their ability to run quality fresh departments up in my area, especially the Reno Store. I guess going from basically no fresh departments to big service meat, deli, etc. has some growing pains for them. Some better quality control would also go a long ways with them up here. Sprouts was probably better off with its smaller perimeter format that they were using a few years ago.
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Re: Report: Amazon planning to open new (non Whole Foods) grocery stores

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storewanderer wrote: March 3rd, 2019, 5:58 pm
Alpha8472 wrote: March 3rd, 2019, 1:56 pm Amazon is terrible at running grocery stores. The quality and pricing at Whole Foods has gotten worse.

What Amazon should do is buy a well run chain such as Wegmans and expand that chain. Let Wegmans run their Whole Foods stores and it will improve drastically.

Then Amazon could buy a well run affordable chain such as Sprouts and use them to run a small format low priced grocery store.

Getting rid of the 365 chain is just an excuse to charge higher prices. Why sell discounted organic food when you can charge even more with a regular Whole Foods branded store?
Sprouts may actually be a pretty good target for them. Sprouts has been trying to sell itself for a while and more recently the CEO left or is about to leave. Sprouts runs good, small, efficient stores that people like to shop. Sprouts needs to work on its customer service and employee turnover. It is really impacting their ability to run quality fresh departments up in my area, especially the Reno Store. I guess going from basically no fresh departments to big service meat, deli, etc. has some growing pains for them. Some better quality control would also go a long ways with them up here. Sprouts was probably better off with its smaller perimeter format that they were using a few years ago.
They seem to be running Whole Foods into the ground, why ruin another store, especially if they want something (presumably) more full-featured?

If they want to really get into the "full" grocery market, they should get rid of Whole Foods and invest (not buy) a big chain like Kroger or Albertsons, learn from them, and trade products.
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