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Most Whole Foods stores I’ve seen aren’t exactly hurting for business and the parking lot is basically full. If their stuff becomes cheaper, that’ll drive dema
by makecheck 9y ago
Most Whole Foods stores I’ve seen aren’t exactly hurting for business and the parking lot is basically full. If their stuff becomes cheaper, that’ll drive demand way up, at which point they’ll need to have more ways to buy. That might mean building more stores but my guess is that Amazon is expecting online shopping to go up once it becomes a bit too crowded at the actual stores.
- JumpCrisscross 9y ago> If their stuff becomes cheaper, that’ll drive demand way up, at which point they’ll need to have more ways to buy Or resolve the bottlenecks.
- cuchoi 9y agoAnecdotal evidence but the Whole Foods I have visited in the Boston area are a lot less crowded than other supermarkets.
- freehunter 9y agoYeah maybe it's just my location every time I've been to Whole Foods it hasn't really been that busy but the inside has seemed insanely packed because the aisles are so small and the displays are laid out poorly. It's hard to get through.
- X86BSD 9y agoMy whole foods are also much much smaller than my local Hy-Vee, or price chopper super markets.
- freehunter 9y agoGood lord I miss Hy-Vee. I used to live in that area of the midwest and I moved a few years back... I miss nothing more than Hy-Vee. It might sound weird to be so attached to a grocery store, but Meijer is just not the same.
- sjg007 9y agoThey really make fantastic bread.
- epalmer 9y agoIn my market Wegmans came in and demonstrated higher quality and better pricing. I'll give Wegmans my business first.
- wmccullough 9y agoOk
- srj 9y agoI wonder which one you're talking about. The Whole Foods adjacent Alewife has a large parking lot and it's often nearly full.
- cuchoi 9y agoI am talking mainly about the one in Beacon St, Somerville. Also about others in the area.
- ehsankia 9y agoSure, but it seems like they have their own niche market. Aka a supermarket for people who aren't trying to save pennies and would pay a little more for a less crowded and high quality shopping experience. It's the same thing as restaurants ranging anywhere from 5$ meals to 50$+ meals.
- slowmovintarget 9y agoIt isn't the "shopping experience" for us. It's the organic produce. It's crappy everywhere else and good at Whole Foods, so we shop there. Meat share for, well, meat, and Wegmans for everything else. But the vegetables on our table come from Whole Foods.
- NikolaeVarius 9y agoThe produce is insanely overpriced.
- andrewjw 9y agoIf you compare it to the same product code somewhere else, perhaps. Your parent is stating they perceive the quality at Whole Foods to be substantially better, and worth the price premium. Perhaps they lack alternative reliable sources of high-quality organic produce you might have access to?
- slowmovintarget 9y agoThat's about the size of it. When you factor in that we've had to discard as much as half of the produce we purchased from other sellers due to it already being spoiled, the actual value for the price at Whole Foods is higher.
- chestervonwinch 9y agoThis is over a 3 month period; total amounts (in dollars) are for produce only: Store | Total| #| Avg -----------+------+--+---- Luckys | 91.86|51|1.80 Publix |133.09|58|2.30 Whole Foods|181.58|76|2.39 We tend to buy more specialty-type produce at Whole Foods in addition to the staples (apples, bananas). We tend to only buy staple produce items at Publix and at Lucky's.
- adventured 9y agoWe don't need to be anecdotal about it, we have data. 2015 sales: $15.389 billion 2016 sales: $15.724 billion Their business growth has stopped. In fact, it's that negative turn (in regards to the perception of WFM as a growth machine) that halved their stock, which led to Amazon acquiring them. To make matters worse for the company, their net income had been contracting for years. 2014: $579m net income 2015: $536m net income 2016: $507m net income Amazon will hack that down further, basically taking WFM where it was already going as their margins were eroding for years.
- RijilV 9y agoWhat was it that Jeff said? "Your margin is my opportunity" I believe. Anyone who hoped to see WF as a profit center aught find a new past time. But yes, this was a company that found a niche, grew into it and could go elsewhere. Amazon will presumably change that, though in the end I doubt WF will be recognizable.
- stonewhite 9y agoAmazon is rarely destructive against its acquisitions. I don't think they will really change WF all that much, at least on the outside.
- BurningFrog 9y agoI have a nice spot on my roof for the Whole Foods drone!
- cakedoggie 9y agoYou probably only go during peak hours.
- emodendroket 9y agoMost people are pretty set in their habits when it comes to groceries; I'd be surprised to see that happen.