Can we even afford them?!
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buy the name not be the name...oops
It's pretty simple, guys. People with 100 years of grocery experience in their families and very deep back benches of retail, logistical, technological, financial and operational talent are eating our lunch. We're not buying ANYONE and no one's buying US. Someone might be the NAME one day but with so much excess retail space in the United States, no one needs more stores. There is not a shortage of natural foods grocery stores, natural foods IN existing grocery stores or places to buy groceries online. Think about it. It's a sinking ship.
We just put grilled sprouts on sale at the store I'm at...pretty tasty!
@1rga perhaps wfm is failing because they didn't pay attention or respect the competition. Sounds like you'd fit right in on the board. Go read some wiki on sprouts and other grocery competitors and while you're at it, the retail segment in general. Sprouts and others are killing wfm in away we'll never be able to adapt organically so we must either buy it or be bought by it.
The competition has a better:
-people model
-operational efficiency model
-footprint model
Do your homework and understand the market. Whole Foods markets business moat has dried up and left us vunerable. if we don't act soon our competition is going kick our front door in and move right in.
Sprouts is what? 1/4 the size we are? buying them would be kind of like our buying Wild Oats. And we remember how well that went, buying a bunch of crap stores for too much money is what sent us into a tailspin that we may never recover from. Please let this be a false rumor!
I like my sprouts grilled.
Not possible. Financially or logically.
Yes, we buy a lot of brussels sprouts.