Amazon to open 2 cashier-less Whole Foods stores next year (AP)

[MineralMan]

16. I'll never see this. I don't shop at Whole Foods.

They don't have products I use on a regular basis, so it's not a complete source of the goods I need from such markets. Therefore, I don't go there at all. Instead, I shop at stores that carry everything I want to buy in the way of food, paper goods, household products, etc.

That Whole Foods is owned by Jeff Bezos and Amazon does not play into it at all. That they're offering cashier-free shopping doesn't either. I don't care. I don't have the time or energy to go to multiple stores to buy what's on my shopping list. I just don't.

My wife went to Whole Foods once, because she had an Amazon order to return. It was very convenient for that. However, she also needed some rice to make some dog food for one of our dogs that was having digestive issues. Chicken and rice fixes those conditions. However, Whole Foods only had long-cooking rice. It was organic, but the dog doesn't care about that, and it doesn't even matter. It was expensive, which we care about, and it takes a lot longer to prepare, which I care about when I'm making food for a dog.

I cooked the rice for the dog. Then, the next day, I was at the supermarket. Rice was on my list, since my wife just bought a small bag of the slow-cooking organic rice. There on the section of an aisle which featured rice, I found organic rice, ordinary rice, Minute rice (which still isn't ready for many minutes), and shelf-stable pre-cooked rice that gets reheated for 90 seconds in the microwave, in its own packaging. I bought the 90-second rice for my dog. He doesn't care. He likes it just as well as the organic rice my wife bought, and it's just as good for what ails him, along with some canned chicken.

My point is that I can buy any sort of rice at my supermarket, from pricy organic varieties to rice that is ready in 90 seconds. At Whole Foods, I can't do that. So, I don't shop there. If I want organic rice, I can get that at my supermarket, but I can't get shelf-stable, pre-cooked, 90-second rice at Whole Foods.