Amazon cuts Whole Food prices in clear signal of sweeping changes to come

Sounds like great news to me, I will finally start shopping there.

Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods Market will be finalized Monday, and shoppers will see an immediate markdown in prices on a number of items, including salmon, avocados, baby kale and almond butter, as the tech giant looks to shake up the grocery business.

Amazon and Whole Foods announced the news on Thursday.

“The two companies will together pursue the vision of making Whole Foods Market’s high-quality, natural and organic food affordable for everyone,” they said in a joint statement. “Whole Foods Market will offer lower prices starting Monday on a selection of best-selling grocery staples across its stores, with more to come.”

Amazon said it will continue to lower prices at Whole Food stores and will eventually offer special discounts and in-store benefits to Amazon Prime members. (Jeffrey P. Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, owns The Washington Post.)

Other foods that will be cheaper beginning next week: Bananas, eggs, ground beef, rotisserie chicken, butter and apples.

The end of "whole paycheck?"

Interesting.

I've never shopped there myself, but if the price decreases combined with the Amazon Prime discount is significant than I might.

Can hear a lot of people crying out "monopoly" already, though.

think i'll do my part to keep supermarkets open. i don't like the idea of having to rely on fedex to eat.

Could be.

They've done it before. Reel them in with good prices, shut down the competition, and before you know it every link leads back to Amazon page with jacked up prices..

Out here in Kentucky we don't have no fancy shmancy "Hole foods". Cousin Jed and I go out into dem hills and shoot up a nice possum for Betty Mae to fricasee. You fancy city folk have it easy

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
think i'll do my part to keep supermarkets open. i don't like the idea of having to rely on fedex to eat.

I am pretty sure this is in store, like you can walk in and get these discounts Monday.

Originally posted by Sable
Sounds like great news to me, I will finally start shopping there.

[b]Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods Market will be finalized Monday, and shoppers will see an immediate markdown in prices on a number of items, including salmon, avocados, baby kale and almond butter, as the tech giant looks to shake up the grocery business.

Amazon and Whole Foods announced the news on Thursday.

“The two companies will together pursue the vision of making Whole Foods Market’s high-quality, natural and organic food affordable for everyone,” they said in a joint statement. “Whole Foods Market will offer lower prices starting Monday on a selection of best-selling grocery staples across its stores, with more to come.”

Amazon said it will continue to lower prices at Whole Food stores and will eventually offer special discounts and in-store benefits to Amazon Prime members. (Jeffrey P. Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, owns The Washington Post.)

Other foods that will be cheaper beginning next week: Bananas, eggs, ground beef, rotisserie chicken, butter and apples.

The end of "whole paycheck?" [/B]

Nice! Can't wait for those special prices. 😄

Basically, a superior competitor to Safeway's and Lucky's?