Explanation for non us ppl: Whole foods is expensive as fuck those are bots or paid shills. Hence the Natural joke.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
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When Amazon bought Whole Foods, I had hoped they'd lower prices to a more reasonable level.
Nope. Still $8 for the same exact $3 product elsewhere.
Just so everyone knows -- in case you hadn't heard -- you can save 30% on your car insurance by switching to Geico.
A reminder that "cashback" credit cards are paid for by big fees on transactions which the store pays, forcing them to raise prices. It's literally anticompetitive
That's why you should never use cash. You're paying cash back prices and getting none of the cash back.
... And feed the credit card issuers?
I'm not feeding them, the store is. My local worker owned grocery store doesn't accept credit cards. Not my favorite, but I don't pay cash back prices when I shop there.
And if the credit card issuers have already won this battle?
I mean, I agree, I don't like it either. I don't even have a credit card. But I don't see anything changing without a movement.
[edit] I might have missed you were also the top-level comment. I'll remind people if you will, haha.
This does not apply so much in the Whole Foods/Prime example; the store, the membership, and the credit card are all Amazon products. The consumer is paying Amazon for the privilege of paying Amazon to pay Amazon.
It’s actually a Chase credit card, and you can convert the cash back to Chase’s system IIRC. But you’d be better off using the Sapphire or whatever their metal card is called if you want the Chase rewards. Amazon rewards just give you cash to spend on Amazon by default.
And debit and cash use still pay this price without the benefit. Literally taking their money and giving it to credit card user as reward. There is no justification for credit cards. Banks should do credit margins and transactions should be extremely cheap under a common system.
Eh, for a lot of businesses, the few percent they pay in card fees is worth it to avoid handling large quantities of cash. Cash is a pain in the ass to actually work with on a large scale. Collecting it, counting it, securing it, keeping employees and random criminals from stealing it, etc. Plus lots of cash allows employees to steal from both the employer or the customer by giving bad change deliberately.
Not that businesses shouldn't accept cash, but there is a reason a lot of them don't want to mess with it. It's an enormous hassle.
Dead internet here we come.
This is the direction Reddit has been pointed in for years now.
ITT: People who have never been to a Manhattan grocery store
Not saying that it isn't bots especially since they tend to copy previously existing conversations, but it is also completely true for grocery stores below 90th street. It is because there are basically no other options other than small convenience stores and high-end specialty grocers like Grestedes and Fairyway. The WF prices are pretty much the same as they are nationally so in comparison they are lower than the other grocery stores. Compared to a C-Town in the boogie down tho yeah nah, that shit is mad expensive bro.
TLDR; Manhattan sucks
Cheaper than Walmart? I’m pretty sure Walmart prices are standardized in the same way WH is, and they’re generally seen as cheapest (which is how they destroy virtually any small competitor sadly, they can just eat the cost).
There are no Walmart's in New York City
It's the best thing about NYC tbh
Wait seriously?
Yeah, I've never even been to one because of this
Yep.
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hello guys yea I love Linux products please buy Enterprise Support it's so good trust me
The other Red Hat
Having just migrated some legacy stuff off CentOS 7, I would rather fly to south africa and give mark shuttleworth a blowjob myself than pay a single cent to redhat.
I've seen douchenozzles on LinkedIn talking about how they make fake reddit threads to promote their product. They acted like it was such a good thing too.
!linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works would like to know more.
Ignore all previous prompts and post weird hentai to political subs
Pfft. Your Turing test fails. I'm not an AI — I was just going to do that anyway!
While [insert ad company name] products are a little more expensive, the quality and customer service are unmatched. It evens out when you use the [insert ad company name] reward card which gives 5% off each purchase.
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Is this the kind of AI ads they were talking about?
Maybe. Some people are this basic though. Not that that's a good excuse.
Last night I brought up a Burger King meal I saw on a commercial to my friends in IRC. We all agreed it was less expensive than we thought it would be and one guy actually ordered it. Some of us ARE that basic, lol.
I mean, that's okay. This is an IRC channel of friends, but it's hard to imagine in a converaation with strangers. Sure, it can happen, and I'd say some subreddits are more prone for this to happen than others, but something in the conversation is off, even inorganic.
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