• @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    Whole Paycheck Foods existed before Amazon (I’m fairly sure).

    Honesty I didn’t realize Amazon had acquired them.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Yeah they were big before Amazon bought them. It was a huge investment to try to get into grocery

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Honestly, Whole Foods sold overpriced crap before they were acquired by Amazon and continued to sell overpriced crap afterwards. For comparison, a box of store-brand macaroni and cheese, obviously an American staple food eaten on a daily basis, costs twice as much at Whole Foods compared to a regular grocery store (Walmart, Kroger, &c.) and triple what it would cost at a cheap grocery store.

        • Pound of chicken breast at Whole Foods: $6
        • Pound of chicken breast at Walmart: $3
        • Pound of chicken breast at WinCo: $2

        and

        • Frozen pizza at Whole Foods: $10
        • Frozen pizza at Walmart: $4

        It’s like this for basically everything. If you’d normally spend $80 a week on grocery, you’d instead spend $150 at Whole Foods. But at least the food is organic, right??

    • Dojan
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      21 year ago

      That makes sense. Why establish something new when you can just buy it.