Amazon is buying Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion
Speaking of Amazon and groceries, I just read that Amazon is buying Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion. I lived about a mile from the original Whole Foods Market in Austin, and their HQ too. I remember going to it one time because it was all the rage. It seemed like a colossal waste of money to me. Everything was priced 2 or 3 times more than at a normal grocery store, and apparently that was all because they claimed everything was organically grown. Good marketing, but their food tasted just like any other grocery store food, and there was no way to verify if that chicken was free ranged or raised in a disgusting feedlot. Either way folks, the chicken was raised in captivity and slaughtered at an early age, way before life expectancy, and sold to consumers and restaurants and pet food manufacturers. No doubt it tastes the same when cooked regardless of how it was raised. So to me it was just a lot of marketing BS. People finally got tired of Whole Foods Market though as they have been losing money for years.
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