Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B

Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by clutchdude on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:21AM (#14569216)

There's also Woot.com - a company who's culture was a strange counterpoint.

Amazon thought they understood it, messed it all around and now it's a sad parody of the former site.

https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2014/july/...

That particular bit about Bezos and the octopus sells it - You'll be fine if Amazon "gets" your company and it's culture. If not, well...

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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by grogenaut on Friday June 16, 2017 @12:20PM (#14570222)

It's pretty well known internally to Amazon that the woot acquisition was handled terribly and that the food was strangled. It's held up as a what not to do now. Source I know some of the og woot folks and I work for a recently acquired subsidiary in the "strangle don't strangle" department. We're very cognizant of keeping what's good about our subsidiary and using what's good about super mega co and they let us. We're very much on the don't strangle side. It'll be interesting to see how this aquisition "GOes"

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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by jasonjayr on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:42AM (#14569422)

It looks like the original Woot folks want to try again:

https://meh.com/forum/topics/faq#q-whats-the-story-here-53a3...

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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by djsumdog on Friday June 16, 2017 @12:43PM (#14570439)

I was going to mention Meh. Their stuff is hilarious. And yep, it's the original Woot staff, long after they sold their baby to Amazon.

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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by puranjay on Saturday June 17, 2017 @11:14AM (#14576224)

I remember Woot's founder, Matt Ruttledge, mentioning how he didn't get along with Bezos at all.

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