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Target has real-estate, they've done all the legwork to figure out where big stores like that need to be. Everything is already built, Amazon just needs to put
by jbob2000 9y ago
Target has real-estate, they've done all the legwork to figure out where big stores like that need to be. Everything is already built, Amazon just needs to put their logo on it. Voila - digital empire turned physical overnight.
- dragonwriter 9y agoHow is that different from Whole Foods?
- jbob2000 9y agoWhole foods has ~470 stores in North America and the UK, Target has ~1,800 worldwide. And I've never seen a Whole Foods next to a Target. Amazon just quadrupled their real estate footprint!
- dragonwriter 9y ago> And I've never seen a Whole Foods next to a Target I've seen a couple places where they are in reasonably close proximity in Northern California; that can't be unique.
- saryant 9y agoThe Whole Foods flagship store in Boulder directly faces a SuperTarget. (Also faces the big new Google office. Shopping in a store owned by Amazon with that staring at you was kinda surreal the first few days after the acquisition)
- zodPod 9y agoWhole Foods is a high end grocery store and Target is a retail store?
- dragonwriter 9y agoGrocery is a subset of retail; they are both retail stores.
- zodPod 9y agoYes but I wouldn't go to Whole Foods if I was looking to buy a radio. Therefore, expanding to Target would offer more variety than Whole Foods would. That was the point of difference that I saw. Sure if I go to target they have groceries but they're a different type of grocery (as I said initially.. Whole Foods is high end) plus, as I stated, you wouldn't go to Whole Foods if you were looking to buy a camera or a radio or an xbox.