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Liquid Communism posted:You are an idiot. No, this is a thing that happens. At WalMart. It was the only non-bank place you could cash a payroll check in my home town.
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OneEightHundred posted:
I used to work at Blue Apron and Amazon's desire to beef up food delivery options with (more than the current preprepped item) meal kits and/or coupled grocery packages was well known. Whole Foods already runs a partnership with a competing company to put their kits on the shelves and the stores themselves have been becoming increasingly based on "prep/manufactury as a service" so combining this existing capacity with Amazon's last mile delivery solves a lot of problems with the kit model and does not suffer from the limitations encountered when doing mass manufacturing at a limited set of locations, as Whole Foods can piggyback store infrastructure to manage waste, increase regional options, and offer a more complete bundle of offerings, and Amazon refrigerated last mile reduces packaging and the need for insanely heavy gel ice packs both a burden in terms of materials and shipping cost (as well as psychological issue people have around poor biases when understanding packaging impact or the fact that the biodegradable ice packs are filled with pink gel that cannot possibly be biodegradable as claimed and really must be the same as old school anti-freeze). While Whole Foods has its issues as a grocery chain and purveyor of fine snake oil, it is relatively uniquely placed to fill current and future gaps in Amazon's grocery roadmap. This acquisition easily put them 3-5 years ahead of where they would be and the only other possible options are regional anyway. Out of the box this gives Amazon a simple path forward to outcompete Blue Apron, which likely does not bode well for the recently announced IPO. From a supply chain and operations perspective of Amazon's grocery game, this acquisition is a masterstroke and catapults them well past the restrictiveness of the e-comm model irt innovative methods of evolving food consumption patterns (via delivery as I don't see the inherent wastefulness of the grocery store paradigm changing until a massive revolution occurs in delivery or some other means outside of brick and mortar).
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Honestly we should all be really grateful, corporations have no obligation to give us free cake on the sixth Wednesday of every month. Honestly, how can you possibly criticize free cake? ON A WEDNESDAY?
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Also it is really poor form to be critical of anything Amazon does because they are (probably) not a sludge factory paying you in human urine which is clearly worse.
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