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Amazon To Buy Whole Foods Market For $13.7 Billion (usatoday.com)
Amazon said Friday it would buy Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion as the giant internet retailer makes a deeper push into the grocery space. From a report: Amazon has dabbled in brick-and-mortar operations, experimenting with a bookstore that opened in New York last month and plans to open "no-checkout" convenience stores. But the Whole Foods acquisition represents a dramatic departure from its early business model founded on online retailing and related technology. Grocery retail is a notoriously thin-profit-margin business. And Whole Foods -- often derided as "Whole Paycheck" -- has struggled in recent years to keep up with emerging competitors that are expanding nationwide with cheaper items. Traditional grocery stores have also widened their organic food selections in hopes of retaining customers who are increasingly looking to eat healthily.
If only there was a way to prevent customers from checking prices online...
Ezekiel 23:20
I had anal sex in a Whole Foods bathroom once. It was an interesting experience and looking back, I regret asking Bill Cosby for his autograph.
"Sure. That will be 47.25"
Wow, that's a great price. Make it 4!.
a kombucha dash button. Thank god! Someday we'll all wonder what life was like before that.
You evidently have never shopped Whole Paycheck if you think profit margins are thin. It's ripe for home delivery since the people who shop there have more money than time what with all the Hot-room Yoga and Reki to get done. But home delivery is a serious logistic problem, at least if you plan to make money at it and not just burn your Angel investor's stash before auctioning off your sock puppet mascot. Amazon has that figured out. And it works both directions. As long as you are going the the Store, why not pick up your amazon order there a day earlier. Finally if you are going to deliver things by drone they need to be small, lightweight, and expensive as a $22/oz lavender oil douche.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Damnit.. I have more questions than I have answers when it comes to eating wheat and what it does to me and I get shouted down and name-called when I even BOTHER to try to find answers to those questions. Worse, I get people telling me "LOL it's all in your head, eat your wheat and STFU" when I've proven over and over again that it's not the case. I've even accidentally eaten something with wheat in it, for weeks on end, only discovering it had wheat in it after wondering why I was having problems again. It's not gluten because I can eat other grains that contain gluten (spelt, oats) and I have no problems, so it's clearly something else in wheat. Having read all that, are you going to sit there, having been a 'medicinal chemist for 20 years', and tell me it's all in my head? If you're going to mock or ridicule me don't even bother responding, I've had quite enough of that over this subject over the last 15 or so years, but if you want to have a rational, intelligent conversation about it, then please do.
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