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This is a Walmart counterattack. Walmart is on the verge of capturing large swathes of busy "middle-class buyer" pickup orders.

Amazon saw it and responded quickly.

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Busy middle class buyers don't go to whole foods except for definitions of middle that are inclusive enough to appease the diversity committee at UCB.

Middle class people definitely shop at Whole Foods. There aren't enough upper class people to sustain something as low margin as a grocery store.

Or Bezos was at home and jokingly said "Alexa, add Whole Foods to my shopping list".

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