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Originally Posted by Deschodt

the cycle is near complete.. Amazon kills off little book stores, grows then then kills off hardware stores, then everything stores, then supermarkets, then goes AI and lays off almost everyone... next step drone or driverless deliveries. Total destruction of all little to medium sized businesses, zero employment, one uber rich eye licking Bezos flying in space, no more middle class to buy your crap.

site note: I have family in the grocery business and they talk about supply / quality (everyone supermarket more or less hits the same warehouses for produce,meat, etc, in a set area - but not everyone purchases the same "grade" product). Whole foods used to get pretty decent quality meat and produce (not the best but pretty good). After amazon's acquisition the grade of stuff they buy went down one or 2 notches... Significantly, so people complaining about a drop at wholefoods are not imagining things. I don't recall the exact letter s (A to B or worse) - but you'd be surprised which chains buys what. Sometimes the fancy schmancy little supermarkets are worth the extra cost (not for your corn flakes but for meat and produce).

Interesting. We used to live ¼ mile from a WF, and did most of our shopping there. I didn't buy enough meat to notice if that changed after the Amazon purchase, but the variety of goods went WAY down. It seemed like every time we went in, something that we had previously regularly purchased was NLA, and lots of other vendors foods have been replaced by WF branded foods. We don't buy a lot of store branded stuff from any store.