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Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion


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The cancer grows

free markets lead to oligopolies, what's new

No they don't, that's the cook you fucking suits!

does anyone have that video where the product labels of foods sold by whole foods and cheaper grocery stores are shown to have simply been changed for whole foods

Reminder that this is how """job creators""" spend their tax break money

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^This is what Amazon will do to Whole Foods. RIP cashiers, esp. because all the other supermarkets will be forced to copy them.

Yeah, I was wondering how they were planning to get these onto the streets. Looks like now we know.
Natural. Organic. Fresh. Automated.

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Recently debated an AnCap, they kept demanding proofs about how free market capitalism leads to oligopolies and quasi-monopolies. How the fuck am I even supposed to prove something which is so painfully obvious?

They wanted to make me believe that it's the state that causes oligopolies, even though it's the state that has anti-trust laws to artificially keep the market competitive. I don't know how fucking delusional you can be.

Oh boy…he really is retarded. I just have to go into the capital of my country. 500k people city with 2,5 million peopel in the metro area. It has lots of huge shopping malls, and 5 or 6 with more than 150 stores. Literally all have the same stores, same restaurants, the cinema plays the same films.

Freedom of choice under capitalism is a myth.

I wonder how long until we see a couple of these mega porky empires like Amazon and Google merge.

Government would probably try to intervene, but Republicans and Lolbergs would probably autisticly screech about muh free market so I'd say it is pretty realistic.

Anti-trust is dead outside of Europe. There will be no intervention.

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The new neoliberal schtick is to claim that monopolies are more efficient. The contradictions are really starting to come out. All we have to do is prevent porky from starting a massive war and capitalism will weaken itself tremendously.

That just means that people will be forced to look at communism as the only path left.
How is this a bad thing in the grand scheme of things?

First worlders will opt for fascism.

He's an ancap, only monarchists or nazis can beat their delusion.

Rural people might but the cities will be taken over by communists because robots will be enough to convince people that capitalism is obsolete.

Whole Foods is shit anyways.


No, there's a good chance liberals will be the tolerant left and go fascist.

Suddenly Whole Foods became much more affordable.

Forgot to turn off my shitposting flag.

Predict the opposite. Rual communities are tight knit. This will read socialist collectivism.

its still on

Wait, if Mackey is so protective of Whole Foods, why did he sell it?

No.

The only employees will be security guards obviously.

Assuming it's publicly traded and he doesn't hold a majority, Amazon might have just bought a controlling stake of shares, that's a hostile takeover.

Can we just call quits on capitalism already?

Good.

Yes.

The rural class will be the vanguard of the revolution.

It seems like Amazon is trying every day to beat out the banks, oil companies, defense contractors, and EA as the worst company in America.

Goddamnit, Mao.

They will need to get past Microsoft first.

lolololololol

After they take over the grocery sector like they did retail it's going to lead to even bigger food deflation than is already happening. Food prices will probably drop to historic lows. Sucks to be a porky in the grocery sector right now, lol.

I'm against shoplifting unless you're in need, but this pretty much makes shoplifting necesary.

Wtf I love amazon now

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Hahaha hipster Urban socdems BTFO

The market only impacts the consumer of the shop being purchased into a monopoly and never anyone outside of it

Lmfao sure

isn't everyone in need?

Unironically what did he mean by this? I can't seem to puzzle it out.

King Ludd Lives

They bought Whole Foods, not Safeway. They're going to keep the "Health Food" spooks alive to keep profit margins up.

You american liberals must be devastated from this loss.

lmfao

It’ll also suck to be a farmer.

US farmers get a subsidy of roughly a trillion every year and sit on food because selling it would not be profitable.

No you silly. The kind of need that leads to allocating 100% of your time around the demands of porky is not need, that's just how the world works.

Only the entirely powerless and destitute can be in need, and even then only in small numbers, lest they get too desperate and give the enforcers bad rep when "suppressed".

So basically you can be in need as long as you are marketable and easy to use.

No you silly. The kind of need that leads to allocating 100% of your time around the demands of porky is not need, that's just how the world works.

Only the entirely powerless and destitute can be in need, and even then only in small numbers, lest they get too desperate and give the enforcers bad rep when "suppressed".

So basically you can be in need as long as you are marketable and easy to use.

oops

monogamy = monopoly
if you oppose monopolies that means you're for polygamy
brilliant thinking from the greatest philosopher of the 21st century, as always

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OH MY GOD, THATS IT!
STOP THE SOCIALISM, PORKY WILL SAVE HUMANITY FROM AUTOMATION!
FINALLY, I SEE THE LIGHT!


WHEN AUTOMATION REPLACES ME I'LL BE HONORED TO SERVE AS ONE OF THEIR MILLIONS OF SERVANTS! SUCK IT LEFTISTS!
YOU WILL HAVE NO JOB! WHAT MEASURE OF VALUE WILL YOU EXCHANGE FOR THE PLENTIFUL RESOURCES OF POST-SCARCITY EH SUCKAS?

"that Amazon should approach these small publishers the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle"
says all you need to know about this "company"

At least that will probably end when the work is done by robots.

Corporate mergers pay for themselves with stock bumps.

This is how Amazon builds their drone-delivery masterpiece. With a rich store in every city, you'll be able to order anything to your door.

THE MANGO OF DAS CAPITAL IS REAL!!!!

There was a King of the Hill episode with the exact same theme

This is what I want, I hate going to the grocery store and I have no qualms with receiving all my food via drone delivery. This is the future I asked for and I'm happy that for a reasonable price I can attain this kind of atomization.

YOU'RE KILLING ME!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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There is going to be credit checks done automatically if you enter the store. If you don't have good enough numbers then you'll be blocked and escorted out. Blacks and Latinos will whine about it but Amazon will say those are just how the numbers work and then the age of machine gods will start.

If you aren't firebombing amazon fiefs then you are going to be a slave to the machine

We're hitting porky levels that shouldn't even be possible

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Can't wait for a fully automated Whole Foods. I will finally be able to steal nice organic crap instead of having to stick to bigger stores with awful produce sections.

Anyone has the "taco-drone" from Prez, available?

We're going to retrain you don't worry if you lose your job friends, we have the means to teach everyone especially GURLZ how to code. You'll all get to spend 16 hours a day, 120 hours a week in 10x10 pods writing spergscript for hentai vr simulators. We will attain 0% employment and 100% profit margins. Its the future you asked for friends

It's illegal to shoot at flying vehicles. It is not illegal to take them down with nets though, assuming they are flying close to the ground.

Just btw most of that "unsold" food is used to feed the animals, create the poison known as corn syrup, and other shit like that. What is more often the case is that farmers are paid money to not fully use their fields since the overproduction would lead to oversupply which would result in a surplus which while it would reduce prices would also make future crops harder to pay for.

Also another reason for the massive amounts of food aid that comes from the US (the most in the entire world). US farmlands are just too productive and yet due to how the world economy works we cant just flood the world market since it would destroy farming jobs across the world (even tho that still happens but its not a free market savvy)

A fully automated store will be able to scan any person who comes in and catch any shoplifting that occurs. You'll be searched through an API via facebook and other popular social media/photo sites and then sent a bill in the mail which if not paid will result in an automated claims made against you in court. Unless you have no photos online you're going to be fucked and I hope you didnt drive to the store to do this.

What's wrong with corn syrup???

It's predatory pricing. Prices will fall for several years until the monopoly is complete. Then, the prices will rise. And so will the fire. Nothing breeds revolution like an empty belly.

its probably the cause behind 70% of the obesity problem in the US. Try buying canned fruit and they'll be absolutely slathered with the stuff. Basically fructose in it is really hard for the body t o process and naturally you wont get anywhere near the amount that a "normal" diet for an average american will give you. Fructose also easily converts to fat. So imagine 2 people, one had a diet with high fructose corn syrup as the sweetener for their shit and the other had normal sugar. Even if they consumed the same amount of calories (and exercised the same) the one with HFCS is going to gain much more fat over the year.

They don't necessarily want a monopoly. They just want to keep Walmart from challenging them while also getting a piece of the EBT pie which was previously unavailable to them.

Nobody can stop me
They won't be flying close enough to the ground to catch with a net you maniac.

Makes everyone autistic.

Amazon bought whole foods almost entirely for their distribution and logistics network and their storefronts. They're not going to try to outdo the grocery market since that shit is way too low margin. This is just how they're going to supplement their home food delivery services and add a few hundred (thousand) more amazon pick up locations

Wait so how are they supposed to deliver their cargo then?

I'm glad I'm not American then.

The "live adds for tacos" seems more plausible.

So does America not have anti-monopoly laws or something?

Are you going to figure out where they're going to land pre-emptively and ambush them with a net?

Fuck it!
I'm memeing it my self!

afaik the anti-monopoly laws in the US are much harsher than the ones in the EU. This case itself isn't a monopoly though since the grocery market is spread out and even

SUUUUUUUURE!

what companies have been broken up in Europe?

Yes and no. Are laws that are never enforced really laws, or are they just meaningless words printed on paper, tucked into a binder and forgotten?

^This made me laugh so much.

Not the guy you responded to, but as far as the nets go, I think that my automated AI will do it for me.

see

Doesn't even make sense as an idea.

it's not illegal to steal?

Europa, post WW2, doesn't need to break up companies, though…

Meanwhile, in US, Disney IS an oligopoly, but has so many branches that is actually not.


Only if they find out!

Grab it with net-gun, take food, release it or thow it away somewhere, eat food, "I didn't do nuffin!"

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I dont there is any stopping this in the short term. Big Corporations are going to become monolithic, then, when the demoralized masses beg for a solution we will give it to them, Communism.

Hail Marx, Hail Lenin!

Should have just googled some graphs. Ancap arguments are so removed from reality they can be refuted by pretty little bars.

The second one is more updated than the first, but for some reason doesn't include Johnson & Johnson.

gizmodo.com.au/2014/07/fascinating-graphic-shows-who-owns-all-the-major-brands-in-the-world/
www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/corporate_community.html

Fuck, make it the fourth and fifth pics actually.

Well that's rather an argument in favor of ML if I ever saw one.


The unfortunate truth.


Finally I'll be living in a videogame!


Not if it crossed the air space of your property.


Man, I thought common sugar was bad enough and moved on to less processed sugars. Anyway, got any source about someone getting more fat from HFCS than sugar?

A few more.

"Corporations are so big, you don't even know who you're working for."

Whoops, first one isn't about corps, it's a weird Holla Forums thing I think. Sorry.

Why is everyone talking about this like it's some huge capitalist coup.

Was Wholes not just another porky grocery chain?

They just make them pay fines or prevent the mergers before they happen usually.

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Welcome to Australia where two companies own over 80% of the food retail market and blackmail producers to supply their products re-branded as store brands or risk losing access to the market and if they don't do what they are told the supermarkets will sell the store branded products (same thing) below cost and pass the cost on to the supplier.

"vote with your wallet" they said.

Nothing inherently, compared to cane sugar, beet sugar, or even the sugars that occur in various food plants and animals. The problem is that it promotes a particular type of monocropping and nutritionally non-diverse food made from cash crops, similarly to other overprocessed cash crop junk like soy lecithin, canola oil, and microcrystalline cellulose. Ingredients that nobody wants to use, from crops nobody wants to grow, for foods nobody wants to eat.

The closed cycle of illogic that keep farm subsidies (which are absolutely vital for agriculture to function in a 1st-world nation without tariffs to protect from the 3rd-world, not to mention the undervaluing of distribution and processing externalities even for other 1st-world or domestic crops) pouring into cash crops is magnificent in its blatant pork barreling:

literally nothing wrong with this

It end up creating a glut of unemployed workers who will move into other sectors thereby decreasing wages, even for "intellectual" labor.

good o'l aussie entrepenuerial spirit i guess, what a bunch of irreverent, stick-it-to-the man larrikins we are. we sure do buck authority and value a fair go right mates? haha yeah we s-sure do.

New technologies allow us to ramp up capacity and embark on projects that weren't possible before. Labor is moved to where it's more productive in the new environment, there is no glut.

In this particular case everyone will save a bunch of time queueing and checking out, small and medium-sized grocery stores will become more viable and there will be more demand for stockers and security.

Oh yeah, I really look forward to the moment that they pass the technology onto mom & pop stores.
You funny fucker.

And probably an uptick in demand for productive labor too I would guess. Anyway, your not completely wrong capitalism generally can and will create new jobs but the jobs they tend to create are lower paying and shittier

haha fuck this dude

A question from a non-Burger. Was Whole Foods a relatively decent company? I find it hard that there's such an immense chain of stores selling only organic stuff, there's no supply for it, is there? There has to be some cheating in it.

Yeah he can get gassed.

"That's real terror. Terror built right into the system."

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I feel this calls for some Classic Images™ to properly express my hopelessness, despair, and disdain for the future. Remember:
THIS IS THE FUTURE YOU CHOSE

Doom Paul probably isn't a good match, as he probably would applaud this victory of the free market.

probably not, but I'm going for the sentiment. We need doom bernie or something
polite sage

We already have that, silly billy.

I'm going to get some blessed sleep now, but if you want I can post the rest I have later.

please do, good night

Yes, they paid better than most supermarket chains, sourced from better suppliers, and were generally less corrosive on the community. That said, like all big chains they tended to cause smaller healthfood stores to go out of business nearby, so I usually only shop at them when all competition has been exterminated.

Bump

Cashiers have been dead for a long time
Most grocery stores have very few manned lanes open compared to self checkout now

Alright then, here's some more.

Whole Foods cashier here. We had an internal memo circulated that contained an email written by Mackey about why he "decided" to sell. He had a private meeting with Bezos (well, him and two other high ups) and said he really liked Amazon and believed in their mission.

But he hasn't made a stink about it since then, and he looked pretty jazzed at the press conference. I think he was probably bullshitting about caring if they sold out. He lived in a commune for a while in the seventies but he seems to have sold out a long long time ago.

I agree with your general sentiment but how do the cooks make it fun? They make it taste good but that doesn't necessarily add the factor of fun. That's like, packaging right? Prop guys. I don't know.

Oh fuck, forgot to post the rest, I have too damn many tabs open.

I think these are the last ones I have.

Amazon gaining hundreds of stores to implement their cashierless and staff minimal "disruption" is p big news. It would be like if Google or Uber bought a major shipping or trucking company. It means that they are implementing the wild ideas they've been talking about for years but haven't actually got off the ground. It's a "coup" because whole foods is controlled mostly by it's founder I believe who doesn't want to sell.

Well they get rid of parallel development, but they also get rid of development in general. There's no need to do R&D when you're the only game in town. I think the "monopolies are efficient" argument could be used as a springboard into "planned economy is more efficient" with some creativity. I mean, a company is a planned economy internally, so a monopoly is basically an industry being planned on the production end but not the distribution end.

I agree to an extent. Personally I feel like the consolidation of advanced capitalist economies is just part of the dialectic. Eventually neoliberal capitalist society will come to resemble a privatized ML state. All we will have to do is replace their guys with ours and we will have control over the entire economy without having to engage in inefficient socialization programs in order to liquidate smaller property owners.

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