I never shopped at one but use Fresh delivery weekly since the pandemic. The prices are lower for many of the items I buy so the delivery fee is easily paid for by the savings. I also shop at TJ and Costco.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank goodness

The boycotts worked

They were boycotted even during biden administration, barely anyone shopped there.

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Anonymous wrote:GOOD.

And I called this as soon as I heard they were making these stores.

"GOOD"?

People losing jobs is GOOD to you? What do you want to go in those places? What do you have against these stores?

I'm sure their very caring CEO will make sure they are all placed in great jobs throughout the company.

Just seems odd that some random person's reaction is GOOD to hundreds of stores closing, LOL, like what did that store do to them?!

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Anonymous wrote:The concept never made any sense to me either. The one in Gaithersburg was first introduced, then they stopped building it and it sounded like it was dead but then a short time later it was built out and now this?

Sound more like a building permit issue.

Had nothing to do with permits, it was an internal freeze. I was part of the team that opened the first dozen or so stores and it was doomed from the start. The first opening was such a mess employees went to Target, Walmart etc to buy stuff just to stock shelves.

The Rockville store on Shady Grove Rd situation was bizarre. They spent months converting it from the old Office Depot, put new signage up, and then decided to pause and left it sitting for at least 18 months. They should do the right thing and open a Whole Foods there.

There were two major issues. One, almost the entire leadership team turned over. Two, a bunch of stores were being built out as Just Walk Out with the camera arrays to be like Amazon Go. There was flip flopping here so some stores had construction stopped to now install them when it wasn’t planned but mostly stores that had them now had to have the system ripped out. Eventually a new leader came in and the entire project was paused before resuming a few stores and refreshing to try and find a new model.

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Anonymous wrote:The concept never made any sense to me either. The one in Gaithersburg was first introduced, then they stopped building it and it sounded like it was dead but then a short time later it was built out and now this?

Sound more like a building permit issue.

Had nothing to do with permits, it was an internal freeze. I was part of the team that opened the first dozen or so stores and it was doomed from the start. The first opening was such a mess employees went to Target, Walmart etc to buy stuff just to stock shelves.

The Rockville store on Shady Grove Rd situation was bizarre. They spent months converting it from the old Office Depot, put new signage up, and then decided to pause and left it sitting for at least 18 months. They should do the right thing and open a Whole Foods there.

Anonymous wrote:Low sales. Things are rolling down hill too. UPS to eliminate 30,000 more jobs as Amazon volume cuts accelerate.

Mistakes were made!

Amazon has been taking over its own deliveries in many areas, which has led to a decline of using UPS.

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Anonymous wrote:The concept never made any sense to me either. The one in Gaithersburg was first introduced, then they stopped building it and it sounded like it was dead but then a short time later it was built out and now this?

Sound more like a building permit issue.

Had nothing to do with permits, it was an internal freeze. I was part of the team that opened the first dozen or so stores and it was doomed from the start. The first opening was such a mess employees went to Target, Walmart etc to buy stuff just to stock shelves.

Anonymous wrote:NOOOO! I live near the Amazon Fresh at Chevy Chase Lake and it's been so amazing to have a grocery store with long hours within walking distance. I hope they keep something there; it seems fairly busy....

Same here! Sometimes things were out of stock, but I could always find some reasonable alternative there. I'm going to miss it.

I'm also going to miss their delivery. I've been laid up after surgery and have used them a ton since early December.

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Anonymous wrote:GOOD.

And I called this as soon as I heard they were making these stores.

"GOOD"?

People losing jobs is GOOD to you? What do you want to go in those places? What do you have against these stores?

I'm sure their very caring CEO will make sure they are all placed in great jobs throughout the company.

+1M Exactly!

I never went into one because I don't have Prime and I heard you had to have an account to shop there?

Maybe if they had done a better job explaining if it was open to all, it might have worked? There's one right near us.

Anonymous wrote:Good Whole Foods will be far better.

Bezos owns whole foods too

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Anonymous wrote:Does this also mean they won’t be doing Amazon Fresh deliveries?

No. The article says “Amazon Fresh will continue to be available online.”

As long as it is available for delivery I am good. There is no retail location near me after the 14th street location closed but I do use them fairly frequently for delivery. I mostly shop at WF or TJs but sometimes you need some Diet Coke and Tide and Amazon Fresh fills in the gaps well.

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Anonymous wrote:GOOD.

And I called this as soon as I heard they were making these stores.

"GOOD"?

People losing jobs is GOOD to you? What do you want to go in those places? What do you have against these stores?

I'm sure their very caring CEO will make sure they are all placed in great jobs throughout the company.

Good Whole Foods will be far better.

Interesting. I shopped at the Potomac Yards store last week and was shocked at the lack of inventory on the shelves for non-perishable items. It seems like they already knew they were announcing closure and hadn't bothered to re-stock their durable goods.