Re:Amazon's Whole Foods Price Cuts Brought 25% Jump in Shoppers
by sumoboy on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:29PM
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Amazon buys this companies and they never really seem to work out over time, eg. zappos, diapers. Major grocery chains will just get smarter and more aggressive with pricing.
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Re:Amazon's Whole Foods Price Cuts Brought 25% Jump in Shoppers
by emodendroket on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:38PM
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I was not aware Zappos was not considered a success.
Re:Amazon's Whole Foods Price Cuts Brought 25% Jump in Shoppers
by sumoboy on Monday September 11, 2017 @07:28PM
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Zappos is a huge success for customer service and returns, but they've been losing marketshare for years. Amazon just wants to show high revenue numbers and mask operating losses. Don't think that Walmart with acquisition of shoebuy is going to sit around and not steal revenue. Too many people think if Amazon buys a company it's going to turn into gold, the only thing that is goldmine is AWS. Whole Foods won't be immune from stiff competition going forward, everybody knows there brand is expensive regardless if they drop prices 25%.
Re:Amazon's Whole Foods Price Cuts Brought 25% Jump in Shoppers
by GCA10 on Monday September 11, 2017 @06:10PM
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Zappos's CEO gets more eccentric all the time, and the site's search function could use updating, but the selection remains excellent and service is first-rate. We still use them.
Other Amazon acquisitions such as IMDB, Goodreads and Audible seem to be humming along. Kiva, now Amazon Robots, is crushing it. (Little joke there.)