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Amazon Is Cutting Prices at Whole Foods Again (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon is giving Whole Foods shoppers an early gift for the holidays. The grocer announced Wednesday it's slashing prices again, this time on several "holiday staples," including sweet potatoes, canned pumpkin and turkey. If you're an Amazon Prime member, you'll pay even less for turkey: Whole Foods slashed turkey prices to $1.99 per pound (compared to $2.49 for non-Prime members), or $2.99 per pound for an organic turkey ($3.49 for non-Prime members).
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I can't say this is across the board, it may have to do with each individual market... But here is Seattle, the Whole Foods marked down a few things, but over all the prices stayed the same, or the reduction was such that I didn't notice. There's a difference between saying "Our prices are x% lower" and "We've reduced prices on x% of our products". In the store near me, it felt like any other store doing "loss leaders".
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
This may be one of the first things Amazon has done that I can get behind. The Whore Foods crowd were such an insufferable bunch of wind bags. I love that they are now on par with Wal-Mart.
Why does it not say "sponsored content" or similar?
Silicon-based Turkey is the new name for my holiday party band...
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bought it. Their pipe dream is to turn it into a cashless, cashier-less store, putting cashiers out of jobs and extending the surveillance society. It may be Bezos' dream, but it's not mine. I'd rather support businesses that contribute to my city's economy, not destroy it. Also, the prices quotes are about average.
Sorry, but why is this here? News would be record sales, or finally being bankrupt. As it is they still look overpriced.
let's hope the quality remains. That's often not the case.
Make Whole Foods a soup kitchen and give food away.
love is just extroverted narcissism
Ceramic fake food! Inorganic turkey!
Silicone-basted turkeys are also pretty common - at least if you prefer to use a brush for basting.
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I wonder how many prime members are going to go buy one of these and not really think about how much they've been paying elsewhere. But hey, you can say you bought your Turkey at Whole Foods. Your guests will instantly pat you on the back and mention how that was one of the best turkeys..
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
YAWN: Whole Foods is doing what everyone else does at this time of year!
CORRECTION: Amazon is lower prices and beating the competition!
from the /. summary:
Amazon is giving Whole Foods shoppers an early gift for the holidays.
Malarkey. Discounts are a pricing strategy to maximize profits.
"What is Discount Pricing Strategy"
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
My firm has continuously sampled a local Whole Foods (in Austin, TX) wall to wall, getting about 14.5k distinct UPCs each time. In comparing before and after the merger, we found no significant difference in average price per category (on a same-UPC basis), nor in the magnitude or absolute number of price changes over time. Bottom line: the idea that Amazon has caused Whole Foods to cut their prices is more marketing than reality.
The Walmart in my area typically has Turkeys for $0.40/lb or less around Thanksgiving. The union grocery stores in typically have Turkeys for 50-cents or less around Thanksgiving.
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Every time Whole Foods runs a sale. Grocery stores run weekly sales - usually targeted around things you need so you shop there... Whole Foods should be no difference. This isn't slashdot worthy - Whole Foods is a grocery store, not a tech company (Well, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of one - but who cares). If we are going to include Whole Foods stories, can we at least start covering the weekly prices from Safeway where I actually shop?
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As I'm sure all grocery chains do. You can look up on Google for Kroger lowering prices and see that what Jeff Bezos is doing is just typical for grocery chains making this a non-news story. It only gets the exposure it does because Bezos also owns The Washington Post and he gets free publicity.
Frankly I see it as manipulative when it is literally just how grocery stores do normal business.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.