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BREAKING: Amazon is buying Whole Foods in $13.7B deal.

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I honestly have never liked Whole Foods.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/whole-food ... udoscience

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Baghead had a love/hate relationship with WHILE FOODS ?

viewtopic.php?f=75&t=98014&start=0#p2390432

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Their meat & seafood is solid if you don't have immediate access to a good butcher or fish monger. It's the best you'll get of the chain stores . Screw everything else in the store. although i guess they have these banana chocolate chip muffins that are pretty tasty

Amazon is taking over the world

We get seafood from Whole Foods.

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Whole Foods has a decent lunch, and few items here or there that are great. Otherwise it's extremely overpriced. Will be interesting to see what Amazon does with it. Can drop prices if they cut out workers. I bet they want to roll out their checkout-less store model nationally, and now they have plenty of space to do so.

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clear out those checkstands so they can install Amazon lockers

This is a terrible article.

Yes, there are the weirdos who shop whole foods that buy the shit the author is speaking about, but that's probably like 3% of their business. I go there because the meat/fish and produce is miles better than any other grocery store in the area. You couldn't pay me to shop at a place like Jewel.

And while we're on the subject on grocery stores, I'd like to piss on the grave of Ultra Foods. The one near me finally closed up last week. What a shithole.

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That place sucked.

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Woodmans for us. Whole Foods is too expensive, and they don't build those high end stores in shitty areas like Dundee and Sleepy Hollow.

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Ultra was owned by a grocery store company out of Indiana. Go figure.

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Pro Tip: Whole Foods is a great place to go for lunch. You see a ton of 'talent", aka trophy wives in and out of there during the day.

As a grocery store, yeah it sucks, other than the babes that go in and out.

This. Plus their 365 brand is decent if you have a sweet tooth and want to avoid the HFC (and weird aftertaste) you get with Oreos, Chips Ahoy, etc. Also, sticking with junk food, the cookies and cakes they make in house are great.

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I used to hit the one up on Kingsbury when I worked around there. Grade A I tell ya, Grade A.

Their packaged stuff is very hit and miss and extremely overpriced. There's some decent stuff, but I don't buy much there from the middle aisles.

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Pass on whole foods, out here we have Wegman's and it is way better.

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Major grocer stocks are down heavily on this news today.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

time to scoop up those shares of Kroger !

Kroger is down 13%, Target down 10%, Walmart down 6%

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cool, maybe i can pick up my amazon shit faster now

The CEO of Whole Foods is blaming 'greedy investors.'

How dare these investors! How dare they want to make a profit off of an investment!

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Greedy investors were also driving his price points.

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The problem is when greedy investors want to implement bad ideas to extract a little bit more money out in the short term so they can sell it.

It would be interesting to implement the idea that you tax investments owned for less than 1 year at 35%, 2 years at 30%, 5 years at 20%, and 10 years at 15% or some variation of those numbers.

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I don't hate Whole Foods the way I hated Dominick's. They have a lot of overpriced stuff, but their 365 brand is pretty solid, their steaks and chicken breasts/thighs aren't bad, they have Wallaby dairy products which I like, and I can eat their (mildly) curried chicken salad from the deli by the pound.

When I'm on a rotation which has me at home 4-5 days a week for a long stretch, I'll rotate my weekly grocery shopping trip between WFM, Pete's (cheaper produce and decent hot foods), Walmart/Meijer, and Costco.

Fuck Ultra and the Hoosiers who propagated them, they've helped make the shopping center nearest my home look like I live in fucking Morton Grove with all the vacancies. And fuck Mariano's, if I didn't like Dominick's overpriced shit the first time, why would I like it the second time just because the asshole went to a new company and is selling the same shit?

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But famously (stupidly) they recently opened one in Englewood. Rahm & the alderman were there for the ground breaking and grand opening.

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Since you're now Big Tax Rick, what are your current thoughts on putting the penny per share tax on equity trades being churned at record rates each of the last 20 years?

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I'm not sure that is a good idea.

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Seems like something worth exploring-especially all the computer based trading. What value does that provide society?

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Spent only about 20 seconds researching but it looks like while their CEO has since forgone stock options, he did exercise existing options in 2012 worth over $500,000.

http://money.cnn.com/gallery/news/compa ... ies/2.html

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Why not just tax profit/income? If I do a trade and lose money why do I get taxed?

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