Another buyout

amazon is creepy as fuck

whole foods is gay hipster shit anyway. they were losing at their own game, selling overpriced organic GMO free politically coorect groceries, until now.

Whole Foods is the yahoo of grocery stores

>>60926325
Do they need the warehouse space or what? Can I get my honey soaked water bread delivered by drone?

Is this to trial that Amazon go tech?

>he doesn't shop at Whole Foods

lel, enjoy your shitty Safeway food

>>60926578
sprouts and trader joes are both better

farmers market too

I already have access to Amazon fresh delivery. So I guess they're looking to expand this market segment.

>>60926325
It means night-night Walmart

Amazon is creeping me out. They're going to get bigger than google.

>>60926590
seriously? only old people shop at sprouts and all of the food at trader joes is expired

>>60926344
fuck off to reddit you stupid fag
GMOs are nonfree software

>>60926632
>as if they aren't getting bigger by the minute

>>60926325

>>>/biz/

>>60926644
I dont go on reddit fuckboy. I do all my shitposting exlusively on 4chan. been that way since 2008 (still a newfag)

Genius move

Amazon now has hundred of distribution nodes in wealthy upper income areas.

They will now be able to accept cash payments for amazon orders, offer pickup discounts like walmart does and save massively on prime shipping costs.

>>60926590

I live in the country, do not remember the last time I bought produce in a grocery store. Farmer's markets are awesome and 1/4th the price.

>>60926790
Why now thought?

>>60926644
>organisms are software

>>60926790
>Amazon now has hundred of distribution nodes in wealthy upper income areas.
Can confirm, I live a mile away from one of the wealthiest communities in the nation and there is a whole foods about 1/2 mile in that direction I go to occasionally which is always full of rich white trophy wives.

Porsches and teslas litter the parking lot

>>60926745
my fucking god you cringy autistic child

>>60926790
>Amazon now has hundred of distribution nodes in wealthy upper income areas
this could help implement drone delivery program
It must have more to do with long-term/future business strategies than hippie food crap

>>60926344
>whole foods is gay hipster shit anyway. they were losing at their own game, selling overpriced organic GMO free politically coorect groceries
You have to be 18 to post here.

>>60926325
https://youtu.be/NrmMk1Myrxc

>>60926325
They're likely going to use whole foods data to help in predicting what foods to market to shoppers as they browse and additionally probably set up a grocery delivery system. Now that amazon is in on the game, the grocery store is as good as dead in the next decade or two. We will only have big distribution centers in each city, like a Costco or Sams Club, but bigger, and they'll mail food out to everyone.

>>60926632
They're already as big or potentially bigger than google. Damn near everyone hosts their sites on their AWS cloud servers and makes extensive use of their miscellaneous services. Now I don't know if they are actively using that data, but they literally have physical access to pretty much data on everything ranging from government records and school records to web forum posting histories and the like. Though admittedly, all of this data is broken up by website instead of by client IP address or user for those sites.

>>60927110
t. gluten free hipster

>>60926325

Overpriced food delivered to the door of upper middle class neighborhoods. Larger selection of the rarer items.

Amazon will create new algorithms to figure what to stock now that their stock expires?

>>60926632

They are going to take over all shipping and warehousing of everything basically.

>>60927038

Maybe they were busy before? Maybe Whole Foods stock fell?

Food delivery via drone

Not a match made in heaven, as far as I can tell. I find the buyout fucking baffling.

>>60926344
whole foods stocks a few items that are worth getting, namely dry aged steaks, but anything packaged is garbage and their produce is expensive/overrated.

>>60927781
This sounds fucking horrible, what happened to good old Mom and Pop shops.

>>60928083
>their produce is expensive/overrated
Due to shitty management and stocking/ distribution issues

>>60928106
>what happened to good old Mom and Pop shops
Regulations happened. Minimum wage happened. In the US it's now basically impossible to run a small business

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>>60926325
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cA2-iMz479o

>inb4 reddit

Nothing for me, since I buy shit from the local farmers market.
t. Poo :^)

>>60926325

amazon go or whatever their venture is called

order online, go to the store and pick it up

or go in the store and pick anything you want

access to goods, payment proxied

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>>60927707
>>60928141
It's a fucking grocery store nigga

we don't need deep learning algorithms and sensor hypomacrofusion to buy herbs and chicken with rice and vegetables

>>60928169
You might not, but deep learning could help save the industry as a whole millions of dollars a year by being able to predict customers buying habits more accurately so they can buy less excess. This reduces waste and saves a fuck ton of money which can be used to reinvest in the company, or keep prices competitive or ever lower than your competition.

>>60926325
it means botnets are now taking over your source of nutrition. soon enough you will not be able to access food without javascript and a database on your eating habits for targeted marketing and manipulation.
btw nice file name you cock sucker.

I thought you folks would be more aware...

>>60928141
This is what they're up to.

Amazon is going to own the fucking storefront industry. The retail industry is going down hard, and what's left will be hooked on Amazon's SAS.

tldr - Invest in amazon.

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Grocery store stocks are all tanking today after this buyout.

>>60928110
it's possible amazon could solve that but what are they looking to do, get involved with a grocery footprint that's exclusive to rich areas and basically redlined?

>>60928629
ahold delhaisze NV (owns stop & shop, giant landover, others) is down 10% too. I'm sure it's hysteria but damn

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>tfw your plan to take over the world is going great

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I prefer the teeter

>>60926325
What's "whole foods"? i only know it's related to hipsters or something

t. not a burger

>>60929038
I've got both within 5 blocks and regularly go to both

>>60929071
Organic grocer

Amazon wants to buy Slack too for 9B, damn they got money

>>60926325
It means what a lot of people had already been warning about for years. Whole Foods is not profitable, no one wants to spend more money on groceries than they have to, the grocery business does not rely on the product sales anyway it relies on slotting fees and volume, if you can't compete on that you may as well not exist. But whole foods came out and fooled a bunch of investors into thinking "oh fuck no we're different and smarter than all those idiots out there in the grocery business". They have been losing money for years, the entire store concept is unsustainable from a economic point of view.

Amazon is looking for a way to shut up its shareholders who want more dividends and more profits. Buying out a physical retailer gives amazon several advantages. Physical locations that can become hubs of local delivery of amazon purchases, since most of their customers don't give a shit they're buying things at triple or double the price. It will also trick investors into thinking "they're just getting started in the grocery business give them more time to make an actual profit".

Keep in mind amazon does not make a fucking penny of profit for twenty years, other than on their web services side. They just want to shut up the shareholders.

gross n creepy

>>60926325
Whole foods has Finnally completely sold out more than they allready had.

>>60926325
>What does this mean?

Memefoods delivered by Amazon.

>$20 asparagus water delivered to your door free delivery with prime membership.

>>60927038
They are ready to start drone deliveries

Whole foods has good locations and distribution network ready to go.

Amazon packages will be delivered to the whole foods and from there you can either pickup your package or have it delivered by drone if you have prime.

>>60929552
this has literally nothing to do with food. It's all about distribution and cutting down delivery costs.

>>60927909
>They are going to take over all shipping and warehousing of everything basically.
It's going to be an interesting future. Just imagine the reduction in road traffic because nobody needs to drive to a store to buy shit, just get it delivered in a couple hours instead!

It's not even Amazon as we've been using home delivery from different stores for ages now, 'tha fucks the point in driving out to a big store full of asshole people getting in the way when instead we can get a guy in a chilled van roll up to our house with crates of food for no extra charge.

>>60926578
I've never even heard of Whole Foods until now. I shop at locally owned establishments.

>>60926341
Would you like to buy Apple MacBook Pro™ Jonathan?

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>>60926325
>what does this mean
America's obesity rate rises.

>>60928311
>invest in Amazon
yea, right dumbass. the stock price is 1000 dollars right now. it's way too late to invest unless you're rich.

investing in data storage is where it's at.

if you don't shop at market32 kill yourself

shit's like kroger prices but whole foods presentation

>>60929610
Whole Foods is local for me

>>60926325
They've taken over online shopping. Now they're coming for offline shopping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrmMk1Myrxc

>>60930234
You may have one in your area but it's still a chain. I'm talking about stores that only exist in my city. You know, small businesses.

(((Amazon)))

>>60928843
>90 thousand millions
>no hair transplant

>>60930262
This is going to be a double edged sword.

Amazon prices are good, and I'm sure they'll have good prices for brick and mortar. However, the Amazon Go experience removes buying items from the act of either using cash or pulling out a card, and is going to make it too easy for irresponsible people to just binge and possibly overcharge their cards (in the ad, the person debating whether they want to spend that extra buck or two on that snack is a perfect example of this).

That's good for Amazon of course. Also good for those of us frugal enough to actually pay attention to our buying habits in the first place since it makes such trips quick and simple. I want it. If every Whole Foods checkout was replaced by an Amazon Go system, I might actually start shopping there.

Plus, it's just another thing to push us to the ideal extreme automation future. The sooner we push there and get over the political and economic hurdles (something like UBI maybe, who fuckin knows what would actually work though), the better.

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>>60926344
>t. liberal arts millennial

Get a job loser

it's crazy how they went from selling books to buying an organic food market

>>60930656
I live two blocks from the headquarters & flagship store, so it's walkable and convenient, and directly across the street from the original store as well.

I do prefer exclusive local stores, though.

>>60928629
It only makes sense. Amazon essentially set the tone with AWS already being a thing in addition to their expansive shipping network. Anyone that doesn't see what's happening here is blind.
The only question is if other companies like Walmart will keep up or if someone like Google partners with a grocery chain to give them a leg up and compete.

They're going to sell overpriced food on Amazon

>>60928076
Sounds pretty good です but as always, I'll buy produce myself. Those grocery delivery people don't have enough time to pick out the good fruits and vegetables and i can't see it being any different for food delivered via drone.

>>60929575
>this has literally nothing to do with food.
Wholefoods sells memed foods.
>It's all about distribution and cutting down delivery costs.
What is your point?

>>60928288
Except they market it to people using the same technology as online. Pressuring you to buy shit that is related to stuff you have previously bought. Oh? You bought that for yourself and not as a gift? Then you might like these other new similar items... Now imagine that with grocery shopping and having an account with them. It keeps a tally of what you usually order and at what time intervals to predict what you really need at the grocery store. It's invasive and horrifying unless you're a lazy ass low IQ and want everything done for you.

>>60928288
youre out of your fucking mind, go to a grocery store and talk the person who orders the food and he will be better at predicting what a store needs than any computer ever can come up with and he only costs $10 a hour.

>>60926578
Whole foods is worse than every other natural foods store.

Enjoy paying fifteen dollars for something you can get at Sprouts/Natural Grocers/etc for ten.

>>60926344
Closer to Firefox. You know, when they started out it seemed like they were doing good but now everyone knows it's some super gay sjw hipster haven.

>>60931295
>Get a job loser
I am a programmer. what now gayboi?

>>60926325
> Milk is exclusively for Amazon Prime Subscribers only.

>>60932793
>not having Amazon Prime

>>60932870
>having Amazon Prime

>>60932900
>implying there's something wrong with saving money

>>60932900
>not having milk

>>60932914
>drinking the koolaid

>>60932971
No, you fucking retard. It's about basic math. If you use Amazon enough for Prime to be beneficial, you'd be a dumbass to not have it.

>>60927075
I feel it bruh

>>60933008
>full on jim jones mode

>>60933008
Take a step back and think about how hard you're being a Jew, and how hard you're defending Jew antics

>>60933008
>If you use Amazon enough for Prime to be beneficial, you'd be a dumbass to not have it.

Amazon rarely has the best prices for anything though, so your being a dipship in the first place by buying from them most of the time. Prime really is a waste of money when considering their prices compared to other retailers.

>>60933278
This.

I'm usually losing a dollar to 4.50 compared to buying from other places. With the same shipping speed. Amazon Prime is a joke for retarded normies and lazy execs

>>60933305
>I'm usually losing a dollar to 4.50 compared to buying from other places. With the same shipping speed.

This combined with tax, and the degraded customer service. Amazon has turned to shit. If you're an American with an issue prepare chatting with a Muslim who hates you by default, and would rather make everything as difficult as possible for you.

>>60928169
>>60928288
The other benefit of the go store technology is that you can't steal from it like you would a regular store.

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I'm going to print these stickers and stick them all over, including the new Amazon Books outlet near me. Rate my plan/help me come up with a better design.

>>60926325
Order groceries in the morning via Amazon, delivered from Whole Foods by the end of the day, motherfucker.

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>>60933396
>friends and family go on and on about Amazon's amazing support, about how they bend over backwards for customers
>I have an issue with my order because I bought something shows the Manufacturer's name in the "by" section and it's fulfilled by Amazon but actually comes from a fucking third party.
>Third party never ships
>I go online to talk to support
>Bill (from Afghanistan) copies from a script
>My problem doesn't get resolved
>I tried to explain it with screencaps because English isn't working
>long delay
>he closes my chat
>have to open another ticket
>get Brenda (from Thailand)
>problem also doesn't get resolved
>I end up having to do a chargeback

>tfw I had a better experience calling Spectrum support

>>60933207
>>60933077
>>60933278
I'm not defending shit. I'm pointing out that if you spend more on shipping for Amazon items in a year than Prime costs, it's beneficial to get Amazon Prime. I never said anything was justifiable, I'm pointing out that you'd be wasting money by not getting Prime.

>>60933532
Go to your order page, click help with my order. They normally auto resolve this shit

>>60933534
>drinking the kool aid

>Whole Foods jew
>Not shopping at Wegmans (tm)

Best fucking market, bar none.

>>60933534
>actually believes he's gaining the system

the mad man

>>60933534
>thinking it's a savings

come on nigga

>>60933534
Someone did the math online and you've have to order +900 a year to break even

>>60933613
and youre already overpaying for the shit that has the shipping included into the price anyway

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>>60933560
>>60933578
>>60933600
>>60933613
There are exclusive only for Amazon Prime members. For example, these Wickedly Prime cookies are absolutely amazing. They even have their own brand of soups and chips as well.

>>60931253
You have to wear bandages over your head for a couple months to a year while going through multiple sessions for a hair transplant

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>>60933663

>>60926325
Amazon is run by idiots

>>60928141
It's amazing how you can write up a whole essay about literally nothing, this could be one paragraph without the visuals.

Whole Foods has fucking EXCELLENT tendies. If they can find a way to deliver those to my house for lunch, I'm all for it.

>>60932693
t. shelf stocker
Just face it. You're job is obsolete and being replaced by automation.

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>>60933663
nigger are you fucking serious

>>60933532
>friends and family go on and on about Amazon's amazing support, about how they bend over backwards for customers

Amazon used to have good customer support, and this was true. Now they outsourced to individuals who really have a bone to pick with americans. If you have an issue now it's better to just call them during regular business hours, and hang up until you get an American. It may seem like I'm being prejudiced, but it's the most efficient method of handling an issue with an Amazon order.

All hail our botnet overlords!!!!!!

>>60933663
stfu bezos

>>60933749
This is sadly the best approach.

t. bleeding heart libera

So how long before they jack up whole food's already sky high prices for non-prime members?

>>60933735
>You're job is obsolete and being replaced by automation.
HAHAHA there is no fucking automation for shelf stocker, i didnt even work retail I worked in distribution.

Whole Foods has been dieing for years, anyone who has worked distribution fucking knows it, amazon bought it for the PR, they may even actually get something done with it but so far it looks iike a terrible business decision from the point of view of anyone who works with grocery businesses.

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>>60933737
I know, it's a total steal. You save 20%!

https://www.amazon.com/Wickedly-Prime/b?node=13854994011

>>60933663
The "exclusives" are never in stock, and are available elsewhere for equal, or even less than "prime exclusive" prices.

>>60933613
Dude, this table I was gonna buy on Amazon would have cost almost a hundred dollars to ship but I got it shipped for free because of prime, and there are many other examples.

Prime has saved me a lot

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>>60929038
Teeters or gtfo

>>60933803
Try any other online vendor - pretty much everyone ships for free these days unless that table is a 9 dollar peice of crap - which honestly you shouldn't be wasting your money on anyway

>>60933560
>>60933578
>>60933600
>>60933613
You guys know that you can get Prime for free right? If you order something through Prime and it doesn't show up on time, you can complain to Pajeet through the website's chat and he'll give you a free month of Prime

I've been doing this for almost 3 years now, only paid for a year

>>60932760
Stop whining pussiboi

>>60933737
Buy it. "In Stock" will turn into "will ship in 2 weeks" in your order history after payment, but it will still say "in stock" on item page.

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>>60930149
His teeth are very nice. You an see some enamel erosion at the edges especially, and infer it from the not-so-bright-whiteness of the aesthetic overall. However, these are shaped and sized nicely, and I bet it's very satisfying when he chomps into food.

I'm curious though, may he be using subtle veneers? Yes, the dental industry and dental care has come quite a long way, but for a man at Tim Cook's age to be that nice still must be more than just that.

Anyways, I guess I'm just jealous, because at 26 I probably have worse teeth overall, just less gum recession. Such is life.

Dentistry uses technology please don't hate me.

>>60933840
Enjoy your ban.

>>60933829
I just ordered a Printer that came in like 2 days free shipping. Everywhere else wanted to charge me like $40+ for shipping or the printer itself cost $40+ more to justify """""free""""" shipping

>>60933858
???

>>60933840
Lol, Amazon really is easy to play.

I bought some expensive watches to wear for a while and return them after I wear them for full refund.

Been doing this for 4 years lmao

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>>60933840
Reported

>>60933875
Hi /wt/

>>60933794
>I know, it's a total steal. You save 20%!
No fucker, it is not a total steal, you can buy fucking tollhouse and cheaper at the fucking grocery store.
>>60933852
Or go to the grocery store and get better quality for less money.


You fuckers sound like the fucking housewives buying schwans and claiming its so much better while they pay three times more retail for worse quality shit.

>>60933786
Your an absolute idiot who should leave the "tech" board if you don't understand that amazon couldn't give a shit about the fucking grocery store. they just need a retail location in every single affluent neighborhood where people would be okay with pay more for getting something in 15 minutes instead of waiting a day.

>>60933888
I also buy designer clothing to wear for a special upcoming occasion and then return it immediately after.

Works everytime

>>60933901
Not him but that's how poor people shop

>>60933890
>Or go to the grocery store and get better quality for less money.

TFW My local grocery stores actually deliver now, and I don't need a special membership.

>>60933840
/marked/

>>60933901
>implying they couldn't have done that years ago and much cheaper than buying a failing business with high labor costs, high supplier costs, high level of waste, ever decreasing costumer base and ever increasing maintenance costs for high fluting buildings that don't perform their basic job

you have no clue what the retail and grocery business is like, amazon got themselves a black hole they may never get out of. Keep in mind, amazon.com makes no fucking money yet.

>>60926325
>>60926325
Well I guess it's time for all those employees making "livable" wages to get a pay cut and start getting treated like shit.

Amazon, and wholefoods fuse into one big rip off.

>>60933972
>amazon.com makes no fucking money
Making no money means paying no taxes. They make 0 profit because they are reinvesting into the business.

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>>60928106
>This sounds fucking horrible, what happened to good old Mom and Pop shops.

The same thing that happened to the Internet.

>>60934017
I got some ocean front property to sell you, its in Montana, tis real cheap anon I promise

>>60933972
>>60934017
>Making no money means paying no taxes
it's almost like the average /g/ user has no fucking clue what they are talking about and think they know better than a $400 billion dollar company. color me surprised

>>60934048
>this just in, one of the largest companies isn't making money.
>acquires a random business for more then your whole family's net worth for the next 10 generations

>>60934095
>>60934097
>if we don't learn from history we are condemned to repeat it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com

>>60934095
Except that's mostly how taxes work.
There is a tax on profits. Make no profit, get no taxes. It's all about the deductibles.

>>60934136
yeah I quoted two posts, I was commenting on the above one criticizing the purchase

>>60934126
>Founder Chris Jaeb, whose stake was diluted to less than 1% of the company, received approximately $50 million from the sale.
fuck man how do you let yourself get jewed like that

>>60934171
missing the fucking point

>>60934182
>implying
I got the point of why it was posted, I'm just commenting on that one portion. God forbid someone take away any observations besides the one you explicitly meant.

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>>60927054
>DNA is a 4-bit digital machine code and everything is built in assembly

>Nature is proprietary

FUCK ALL OF EXISTENCE

>>60926325

opens up a dimension of cybernetics, transhumanistic based nutriments to foray in tech between organisms to proxify being into entities, consider the amount of data this generates and to act upon

>>60926325
Amazon Fresh, nigga

>>60926632
They better. Fuck Google and fuck Facebook

>>60933577
>Wegmans
love me some weggies my dude

>>60934208
>God forbid someone take away any observations besides the one you explicitly meant.

>God

Fuck wherever I go there's always someone preaching.

>>60934171
LMAO

whole foods makes really good bundt cake.

>>60926632
>>60934254

Amazon owns a very deep and real structure which is inaccessible to Google and FB competitors still stay on the surface

$13.7B is quite cheap desu, this is the new whatsapp or youtube price paid because Walmart is in the crosshair

>>60934358
But do you believe Bezos will overtake Cuckerberg?

>>60934375

He probably already did, not that it matters that much, afaik cuckerberg is one of a kind and has every opportunity in anything he tries

What matters is Ali Baba and Soft Bank to name a few

>>60933560
>>60933578
>>60933600
>>60933613
Look, you fucking retards, I don't even use Amazon. Literally all I'm saying is that if you spend more in shipping over the time period of a Prime membership than what the membership costs, you're spending less money. Did you faggots all drop out of school in the first grade or something? This is very basic math.

>>60926325
Whole Foods employees are about to get fucked up the ass with baseball bats.

>>60934710
>Look, you fucking retards, I don't even use Amazon. Literally all I'm saying is that if you spend more in shipping over the time period of a Prime membership than what the membership costs, you're spending less money. Did you faggots all drop out of school in the first grade or something? This is very basic math.

It's not worth it, because other retailers sell the same thing as Amazon a lower price, and do free shipping.

>>60928288
>skynet smiles

>>60934710
>I don't even use Amazon
That can explain why you're taking so long to understand what most people know intuitively.

Items on Amazon Prime are usually priced higher than anywhere else, because they already include the cost of shipping in the price itself. Much the same way retail stores will mark items as "sales" or "30% the previous price" even though in reality the price never changed. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FREE SHIPPING. SHIPPING COSTS MONEY, YOU ALWAYS PAY EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU'RE NOT PAYING.

>>60934767
>That can explain why you're taking so long to understand what most people know intuitively.

Look here bucko. I don't need to be a customer to know how maths work.

>Items on Amazon Prime are usually priced higher than anywhere else, because they already include the cost of shipping in the price itself. Much the same way retail stores will mark items as "sales" or "30% the previous price" even though in reality the price never changed. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FREE SHIPPING. SHIPPING COSTS MONEY, YOU ALWAYS PAY EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU'RE NOT PAYING.

If you use prime you'll be saving money in the long run. It's elementary level arithmetic, and I am a ghasp that you cannot comprehend this!

>>60926325
Serious question here, after this move, and seeing as Amazon seems intent on entering the physical retail space, why don't they also buy out Costco?

Costco seems like it would make a lot of sense. Loyal customer base, tons of great locations, huge warehouse centers, Amazon could keep Costco locations as warehouse stores but also use them as Prime distribution centers or pick up locations.

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>>60934882
are you female??

>>60934906
Costco is a much bigger player, they sold 97 billion worth of goods in a year

>>60926325
This means that Amazon now owns Whole Foods.

>>60934909
>are you female??

Are YOU female?

Serious question.

>>60934928
That's definitely true but from my understanding, while Costco has enormous revenue, they pretty much only rely on membership fees for profit. I wonder how expensive they would be to purchase.

>>60934950
im not the one claiming something totally illogical as a fact.

>>60934906
>why don't they also buy out Costco?

Costco isn't selling, and Amazon would negate all the pros of purchasing from Costco if they bought them out which would alienate current Costco clientele.

>>60934980
Yea you are moran.

>>60934964
>>60934906
amazon would completely gut costco and chase away their loyal customer base in under a year

>>60935002
great argument that will totally prove im wrong

>>60926325
Can someone tell me how Amazon is using 1990s Microsoft's Playbook yet haven't been hit with an antitrust suit yet?

Because they are doing everything what 1990s Bill Gates CEO wanted to do yet Amazon hasn't been punished like Microsoft yet so what gives

>>60935022
amazon doesn't have a monopoly on retail

>>60926325
Really odd choice when Costco is more closer to Amazon's distribution model than Wholefoods.

Wouldn't Amazon buying Costco make more sense?

>>60935021
>great argument that will totally prove im wrong

Look here bucko you haven't made any valid points for anyone to prove write, or wrong.

>>60934254
>>60934358
I don't understand how Facebook is profitable when they literally don't produce anything physical.

It's just a Myspace that stopped letting you personalize anything with html.

>>60935062
>you haven't made any valid points
read the thread fucker

>>60935036

Microsoft didn't have a monopoly either.

>>60935037
Could they buy out Costco? I don't think the owners are even interested in selling.

Amazon would gain real estate, but they'll also lose all the Costco customers.

Amazon fucked up.

Buying up American farms like beef/pork producers makes more sense than buying Wholefoods.

Controlling the farms and the farm products gives you more leverage than buying Wholefoods.

>>60935013
The hate boner is real

>>60935064
Exactly

>>60935064
>I don't understand how Facebook is profitable when they literally don't produce anything physical.
Yeah just millions of gigabytes of metadata about it's gorillion users. Nothing to worry about

>>60935070
>read the thread fucker

I've read the thread bucko. All I saw was autistic screeching, and bad matching friend.

>>60935071
No, they literally did.
Thanks to their meddling in the 1990s, you were literally unable to buy a prebuilt PC without microsoft windows for almost 30 years.
And they all come with internet explorer, which purposefully handpicked what parts of internet standards it wanted to display correctly, leaving the rest of the browser market at a severe disadvantage.

>>60934989
>>60935013
>>60935085
I don't know enough about this to have an informed opinion, but why do you suspect Costco being bought out by Amazon would alienate current Costco clientele? I would think there would be more overlap between Costco customers and Amazon than WF and Amazon.

It would make sense for Amazon to keep Costco exactly as it is, even keep their current leadership, but use the warehouses to bolster distribution and pick up.

I know this is anecdotal but Amazon and Costco are pretty much my favorite places to shop, along with some local markets. And I hate to use this word, but I could see a lot of "synergy" between the two operations.

>>60935105
Yeah, but it is still mainly American metadata.

Facebook knows jackshit about 1 billion Chinese in comparison.

>>60935165
>Costco being bought out by Amazon would alienate current Costco clientele?

Costco has strict company guidelines on how much to profit from sales, and their
company buyers are very in tune with what will quickly sell at each location. Another major reason costco survived is the fact that the owner is very hands on, and won't deviate from how he always did business since he made Costco.

>>60935165
The way Costco is run is similar to how Amazon is run as well.

People pretend Amazon's Jeff Bozos can do no wrong or won't even make retarded decisions.

Yet Amazon's Firephone was a huge costly flop.

>>60935165
It's really simple:
amazon buys costco and then suddenly membership fees double to match that of amazon prime and the $5 rotisserie chickens are no longer $5.

>>60935255
>>60935265
Good points. If such a deal went through, aside from hubris and ego on the part of Bezos and Amazon, wouldn't it make sense to essentially keep Costco running the way it currently is, but utilize their physical footprint for Amazon related delivery/distribution? Or is this just impossible when managing these large corps?

>>60935165
>I know this is anecdotal but Amazon and Costco are pretty much my favorite places to shop, along with some local markets. And I hate to use this word, but I could see a lot of "synergy" between the two operations.

Amazon, and Costco clash on a fundamental level. Costco does everything they could to keep costs down for their customers while Amazon doesn't offer anything at a decent price unless it's offering some sort of limited loss leader.

>>60935064
Targeted ads, m8.

If you have an indian fusion hipster restaurant, how much is a view from the following worth:

>Random humanoid
Maybe 1/100 of a cent?

>20-29 year old affluent professional male who has spent $100+ on hipster foods in the past month, and is currently in their car at lunch hour searching for a place to eat
Maybe $1?

That 10,000x improvement in ad value is what FB makes a profit on.

Everyone's view is worth $1 to someone, you just have to know who.

>>60935352
Bump the chicken to $7 and allow shipping.

Acquire Uber and every other transportation and delivery service so our fat asses no longer need to leave the house.

>>60935357
>Costco running the way it currently is,

This would be impossible for Amazon to do. Amazon has done many buy outs in the past, but they completely destroy what made purchasing from those companies as soon as they get their hands on them. I mean off the top of my head I can pull woot as an example. Woot was an awesome site to purchase deals, and it had enjoyable quirks, but now it only offers junk at Amazon tier prices. Now people don't really care about woot, and they still choose to make purchases off Amazon.

It means that you can have Whole Food's groceries delivered to you in the near future

It means they'll probably make whole foods not shit(doubt it)? Trader Joes is a superior whole food anyways.

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>mfw won't have to leave my house for groceries anymore

>>60935086
Buying farms doesn't get you a fuck huge distribution network, asshole.

>>60934757
>>60934767
I'm not saying anything about other retailers, what I'm saying is IF you use Amazon that much, you will save money by getting Prime. I'm not saying it's the most economical way to go, I'm saying that it's cheaper than not having Prime.

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>>60934928
Amazons revenue last year was 140 billion, and they're still in the rapid growth stage.

>>60933396
Bullshit. You wouldn't believe what they return for free without queston

>>60936839
Costco is a much bigger player *than Whole Foods*

Amazon may be bigger than Costco now or in the near future, but that doesn't mean they can just up and buy them.

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>>60937505
>mfw they have a monopoly on my food supply now too

he tried to warn us:
https://stallman.org/amazon.html