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Whole ~~Paycheck~~ Foods existed before Amazon (I'm fairly sure).
Honesty I didn't realize Amazon had acquired them.
Yeah they were big before Amazon bought them. It was a huge investment to try to get into grocery
Honestly, Whole Foods sold overpriced crap before they were acquired by Amazon and continued to sell overpriced crap afterwards. For comparison, a box of store-brand macaroni and cheese, obviously an American staple food eaten on a daily basis, costs twice as much at Whole Foods compared to a regular grocery store (Walmart, Kroger, &c.) and triple what it would cost at a cheap grocery store.
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It's like this for basically everything. If you'd normally spend $80 a week on grocery, you'd instead spend $150 at Whole Foods. But at least the food is organic, right??
That makes sense. Why establish something new when you can just buy it.