Supply chains take time to stabilize. Understand, I am in no way defending amazon, i hope it all burns, but in the interest of fairness I must say that six mon

Supply chains take time to stabilize. Understand, I am in no way defending amazon, i hope it all burns, but in the interest of fairness I must say that six months is too short a time to evaluate whether Amazon can run grocery stores well. I worked in a piggly wiggly in Alabama during high school, and maybe three years later I was the produce manager, that whole side of the store was my responsibility. 20yo me was not ready for how much shit there is. Keep in mind, this is in alabama, not exactly an overregulated state, and definitely some of the regs were imposed by PW corporate. Anyways there were irrigation cleanings, audits, temperature sheets on the hour, display audits and secret shoppers, knowledge integrity audits where secret shoppers ask you about fruitveg factoids and you're supposed to know and love and worship that info, there's all the inventory sheets, fifo+backstock alleviation, backroom cleaning, etc. There's more I've forgotten probably. My point being, there is a lot of variables in those stores. Some from the state, some from corp, and on top of all that the business itself is an organism. It changes and adapts with the seasons. I had a whole separate routine for stocking watermelons, I even rearranged the displays in the store per the PW rules. All sorts of shit like that takes time to learn and marinate in people's heads. The grocery store that some ninety year old geezer has had open for fifty years will have a completely different logistics profile, because he got tired of dealing with the these problems forty years ago and fixed them. He has a tremendous advantage in that regard over a large corp doing groceries in unstable stores. It's upsetting that even things like groceries are becoming millenialized. I shouldn't need a prime membership to get good groceries, the whole point of grocery stores is for them all to compete to get EVERYBODY good grocery prices. It's too late for Amazon to put WF back. They will most likely find ways to make them little profit factories where oblivious young people shop there semireligiously, ignoring all the benefits of small biz groceries.