
The spindliest kid on the block can never hope to be the bully.įurthermore, Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh are both increasing delivery charges. When a company the size of Walmart asks you for something, it is really telling you. It’s not like Walmart asking vendors to cut prices. Amazon sees brick-and-mortar sales rise, online sales dip in Q4 and fiscal year ()Īmazon’s Whole Foods BB #:147784 is having trouble of its own-asking vendors to cut their prices. It’s worth noting that Amazon’s financial report this week showed a rise in store sales in the fourth quarter and the year but lower online sales in Q4, and lower net income for the quarter, with nearly a $3 billion net loss for the year. You can tell he’s an idiot even though you don’t have the medical background to say why. It’s like going to a stupid doctor (and there are a lot of them out there). Something just doesn’t seem right about the stores, although I can’t point my finger at what. It seems that Amazon-the gargantuan monster that looms over retail-may not be very good at retail itself.

I didn’t even see many people there on the opening day of the Bloomingdale, IL, store. One sign is the fact that the place appears to be virtually empty at every hour. I have long thought this would happen on the basis of my own experiences with Amazon Fresh.

But it is hard to avoid concluding that the great Amazon conquest of retail grocery is starting to stall.
