Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways

Re:Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways by benatkin on Thursday December 13, 2018 @05:27PM (#18676712)

With Whole Foods, Amazon could probably foot the bill for the tip themselves, with the excess price on just a few items. For instance, consider two 6 oz packs of non-organic blueberries that they charge $5 a pack for but that they could easily charge $3 a pack for. That's $4 on the two packs. Add some overpriced lettuce and some overpriced carrots, and you've exceeded the $5.

I don't spend money on any Amazon products or services at all these days, and if it was possible to spend negative money, I would.

Edit: forgot about AWS. I do spend money on Amazon stuff. Not much on my personal account, but some for clients.

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Re:Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways by WillPostForFood on Thursday December 13, 2018 @05:58PM (#18676915)

How do you know they can make $2 on $5 organic blueberries in the winter that they have to ship in from Peru or Mexico? $5 is a typical price I see for organic at other stores as well.

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Re:Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways by benatkin on Thursday December 13, 2018 @08:17PM (#18677632)

This is the non-organic ones. The organic ones are 6 bucks. At another grocery store a mile away the non-organic ones are about one dollar per package right now. Shipping is cheap. The prices fluctuate but whole foods tends to keep it higher than what other stores charge when they're out of season, except when they're on sale. They go on sale based on the season but don't always go on sale when they're in season.

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