Amazon's model is not really compatible with the Whole Foods model. Amazon appears to be rewriting the entire agenda. I doubt that is going to change.
What I do see happening is for the existing Whole Foods vendors to start dealing with a new company - one that pretty much was the original Whole Foods, under a different name. I also see the customers flocking to this new company, for much the same reasons they patronized the old one.
I also see Amazon losing their investment in Whole Foods - and possibly selling the now gutted company off for a major loss in the future. It's not like this kind of thing hasn't happened before.
If doing what Whole Foods was doing was so easy for large companies to do - don't you think they would be doing that already? They can't do it because it is precisely the lack of large scale logistics that made Whole Foods a viable company in the first place. We already have an over supply of large logistics in the food industry - and the food sucks.
[–] CrustyBeaver52 ago
Amazon's model is not really compatible with the Whole Foods model. Amazon appears to be rewriting the entire agenda. I doubt that is going to change.
What I do see happening is for the existing Whole Foods vendors to start dealing with a new company - one that pretty much was the original Whole Foods, under a different name. I also see the customers flocking to this new company, for much the same reasons they patronized the old one.
I also see Amazon losing their investment in Whole Foods - and possibly selling the now gutted company off for a major loss in the future. It's not like this kind of thing hasn't happened before.
If doing what Whole Foods was doing was so easy for large companies to do - don't you think they would be doing that already? They can't do it because it is precisely the lack of large scale logistics that made Whole Foods a viable company in the first place. We already have an over supply of large logistics in the food industry - and the food sucks.