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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by eric_the_read on Friday June 16, 2017 @05:28PM (#14572773)
The value is that Aldi is nowhere near here, and Lidi is completely un-heard-of.

The only reason I know about Aldi is that I spent a couple of years working in Chicago (and living further out), and even there I had to drive a long ways out of my way to find an Aldi. I think I went once in the 2 years I was there.

Whole Foods is everywhere.

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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by eric_the_read on Friday June 16, 2017 @05:52PM (#14572913)
Well, I'm wrong. There are ~430 WF locations worldwide; there are 1,600 Aldis in the US. it's just that aside from southern California, they don't seem to have a lot of locations in the West. My closest Aldi is ~550 miles away; my closest Whole Foods is a lot closer.
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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by thinkling on Friday June 16, 2017 @06:01PM (#14572959)
FYI Aldi also owns Trader Joe's.

EDIT: apparently I was effectively wrong, different Aldis:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14569051

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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by KGIII on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:24PM (#14574110)
No. There is no Whole Foods within 100 miles of me, and I am in the continental US.
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