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Re:Amazon to open grocery chain separate from Whole Foods by mc32 on Friday March 01, 2019 @07:09PM (#19286533)
They do, but they don’t carry the mainstream versions of things: GUS soda instead of Coke/Pepsi. Cape Cod snacks instead of Doritoes.

The thing I hate is they don’t carry regular Aspirin or Tylenol, Nyquil (your usual and basic over the counter medicines) instead they carry ‘homeopathic’ whatever useless ‘natural’ ‘medicines’ & ‘supplements’

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Re:Amazon to open grocery chain separate from Whole Foods by manav on Friday March 01, 2019 @07:26PM (#19286612)
Those aisles along with clothing are really the most useless ones in the stores I've been to. Can't imagine people really buy that stuff.

Amazon has a big opportunity there as well. They've just started their vitamin Solimo brand which is actually decent, and private-labelling generic drugs is just easy money for most retailers.

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Re:Amazon to open grocery chain separate from Whole Foods by dahdum on Friday March 01, 2019 @07:20PM (#19286579)
The fact they sell and promote that garbage is far more telling of their corporate values than avoiding HFCS, IMHO.
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Re:Amazon to open grocery chain separate from Whole Foods by lotsofpulp on Saturday March 02, 2019 @05:58AM (#19288681)
There’s probably quite a bit of overlap between people who buy placebos and are into the organic/nonGMO marketing.
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