Amazon Offers Whole Foods Discounts To Prime Members (reuters.com)

Amazon-owned Whole Foods debuted a loyalty program on Wednesday that offers special discounts to Prime members, including 10 percent off hundreds of sale items and rotating weekly specials. "The new loyalty strategy will test whether Amazon's $13.7 billion deal for Whole Foods brings much-feared disruption and an intensified price war to the $800 billion U.S. grocery industry dominated by Walmart and Kroger," reports Reuters. From the report: Those perks are available now in Florida and will roll out to all other stores starting this summer. Amazon previously announced free two-hour delivery from Whole Foods stores for members of Prime, its subscription club with fast shipping and video streaming. The new perks could make Whole Foods cheaper than conventional grocers for about 8 million of its customers who already subscribe to Amazon Prime, according to Morgan Stanley analysts. Prime members scan an app or input their phone numbers at checkout to receive the discounts.

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Re:Local chain here...

[SuperKendall]

is cheaper than Whole Foods

Correction: Is cheaper than Whole Foods USED to be.

Especially for Prime members.

and has union workers that aren't treated as disposible tissues

Correction: Has union workers that are abused even more by union heads than by management.

Why do you support slave labor? That's what unions are, forced dues for no return while people that don't even manage the store they work at live high of the little peoples' income. And you proudly state you support such a monstrous arrangement? Have you no shame sir.

I'd rather support them than a destructive/disruptive company like Amazon...

You are right that Amazon is disruptive, even that disruption and destruction are two sides of the same coin. But sometimes you need the rain to come to clean the filth from the gutters.