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#121 G-Man

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Posted 17 June 2017 - 08:09 AM

I want to go to that Amazon store in Seattle. It seems like the future to me. If they can do that on a grocery store level that would be amazing. Maybe they will lower the prices a bit at the same time.

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Posted 17 June 2017 - 08:25 AM

...Maybe they will lower the prices a bit at the same time.

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#123 spanky123

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Posted 17 June 2017 - 10:20 AM

We already know what Amazon is doing in the grocery space because they have a prototype store.  https://www.amazon.c...ode=16008589011

 

What's better than self checkout?  No checkout.

 

Apparently the store breaks if there are more than 20 people in it. https://www.theverge...e-opening-delay

 

Should be fine for the Victoria WF however :-)


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#124 UDeMan

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Posted 17 June 2017 - 10:25 AM

Why are grocery stores so big?   Because they have tons of stock on the floor.  40 bags of one brand/flavour of chips, 300 jugs of milk, 40 buckets of ice cream.  How about Amazon uses its robotics to make stores smaller?  Robots stock the shelves faster (not normal shelves, these will be shelves that stock from below).  AND of course, the big one they already have at Amazon Go, you do not unload your cart all over again at the self-serve till.  You just leave the store, your SmartCart™ knows what you have.  

 

This reminds me of the model of Consumers Distributing.  Remember that store at Mayfair Mall?

Small store front and big warehouse at the back.  You put in your order and they ran back to grab it for you.



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Posted 17 June 2017 - 10:27 AM

This reminds me of the model of Consumers Distributing.  Remember that store at Mayfair Mall?

Small store front and big warehouse at the back.  You put in your order and they ran back to grab it for you.

 

I do remember that, it was kinda cool for smallish-sized electronics.


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#126 Nparker

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Posted 17 June 2017 - 10:32 AM

This reminds me of the model of Consumers Distributing...You put in your order and they ran back to grab it for you.

Très innovative - n'est-ce pas?



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Posted 17 June 2017 - 10:32 AM

^ Cash.
 
http://money.cnn.com...oods/index.html

From the petty cash drawer.
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#128 Mike K.

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Posted 17 June 2017 - 11:24 AM

It's how liquor is STILL sold in Ontario, lol!
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Posted 17 June 2017 - 11:25 AM

It's how liquor is STILL sold in Ontario, lol!

 

Beer I think, but yes.  Up the conveyor belt.  "Charlie, a 2-4 of Lucky please!"


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Posted 17 June 2017 - 11:35 AM

It's how liquor is STILL sold in Ontario, lol!


Not for a long time, now, Mike. I think that was a political reward system. Otherwise unemployable offspring of connected types could be handed an unstressful, overpaying job for life with really good benefits.

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Posted 17 June 2017 - 04:06 PM

Not for a long time, now, Mike. I think that was a political reward system. Otherwise unemployable offspring of connected types could be handed an unstressful, overpaying job for life with really good benefits.


Possible, but I think it was mainly the puritanical attitude towards booze. I lived in Ottawa in the days when credit cards were not accepted at LCBO stores, and to purchase a bottle you filled out a piece of paper, handed it to the counter clerk with the cash, and he went into the back and returned with the bottle already in a plain brown paper bag. Very soviet-style.
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#132 Mike K.

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Posted 17 June 2017 - 05:18 PM

Not for a long time, now, Mike. I think that was a political reward system. Otherwise unemployable offspring of connected types could be handed an unstressful, overpaying job for life with really good benefits.


When I was in Ottawa last year that's excaxtly how I bought my beer.

Am I missing something?
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Posted 17 June 2017 - 08:50 PM

When I was in Ottawa last year that's excaxtly how I bought my beer.

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Posted 27 August 2017 - 10:04 PM

Amazon.com Inc said it will cut prices on a range of popular goods as it completes its acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc, sending shares of rival grocers tumbling on fears that brutal market share battles will intensify.

The price cuts will extend to stores in Canada, according to Whole Foods Market.

Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods, which will be completed on Monday, has been hanging over a brick-and-mortar retail sector unsure of how to respond to the world’s biggest online retailer.

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#135 Mike K.

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Posted 28 August 2017 - 06:50 AM

Here's where we can expect the initial price reductions to materialize:

 

"Media reports from across the United States confirm prices on popular staples like bananas, avocados, eggs, lettuce, salmon, ground beef, apples and rotisserie chicken, among others, have been slashed. The same is expected at the chain’s 13 Canadian locations." - http://victoria.citi...hopping-centre/


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Posted 28 August 2017 - 07:07 AM

Great, so instead of 1.99/lb bananas, they'll be 1.79. Not sure why regular grocers would care, selling bananas at .79/lb.


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#137 Mike K.

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Posted 28 August 2017 - 07:23 AM

The prices being observed in the US depict non-organic bananas priced at the same rate as competing stores. We'll soon see just what this all means, but if Whole Foods can reduce their pricing by 20% for an average shopping run they'll see more of my business, for sure.


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#138 spanky123

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Posted 28 August 2017 - 07:39 AM

Was there on the weekend and it looks like staff had already started re-pricing items. Since there were few customers they had lots of free time!

 

I would say that the prices have gone from outrageous down to overpriced. In other words prices have been lowered to be less expensive than Thrifty Foods on many items but still far more than Red Barn on produce and organic items.


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#139 Mike K.

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Posted 28 August 2017 - 08:22 AM

We expect some major changes to the grocery shopping experience now that Amazon has acquired WFM. Likely delivery-based services that downplay the traditional shopping experience and promote online ordering.


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Posted 28 August 2017 - 07:22 PM

Is everything WF sells food wise organic? I was in the other day and bought a couple of bananas that were $.88  a pound and that seemed reasonable to me.


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