Look up the Schwartz Group...they are #2 behind Walmart. Why is no one at WFM talking about this? This is much bigger than TJs ....
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Trader Joe’s is a German company, so is Aldi. Both are successful in the US, try again.
Lidl is having large layoff’s in the US. No Europians are being let go. It appears the Germans do not understand the American market. Trader Joe’s, Wall mart and Sams will destroy them.
Ding Dong... Reality, I meant Amazon, is at the door and they brought their checkbook!
“WFM is not going to fail, or shrink, or sell out, or be bought out.”
Why, oh why, do people offer speculations when they have absolutely no forefront in doing so?!
I'm not a troll, nor am I from regional. I am a grocery team leader who has been with the company for quite a while and I am totally happy with my job and my employer...well, I take that back, I am 90% happy. OK, I am 80% happy. Heck, I am not sure how happy I am with WF but I do know I am happier here than I was at any place I have ever worked at before. OK?
And all of you posters who accuse anybody who says anything favorable about WF of being trolls (or rahodeb or regional or ???) are just stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Troll alert! The moron who previously posted is on all the threads spreading his pukish and delusional garbage.
You are all full of it. Whole Foods isn't going anywhere and Lidl (or anybody else for that matter) isn't taking over the world. But anyway, the US has over 300 million people and is over 3 1/2 million square miles in area, and the total grocery business in the US is somewhere north of 600 billion dollars a year, so Lidl eventually opening 150 stores in the US is really not such a big deal for any grocery chain in the country. For example, Kroger has close to 3,000 stores. Lidl is like Aldi and they both are huge in Europe at around 10,000 stores each. The US is a different sort of market and I think they will both grow and take an increasing share of the pie, but they are not putting anybody here out of business, nor are they gobbling up big US chains. And on the small end at a little over 450 stores (with a different concept and demo) WFM is not going to fail, or shrink, or sell out, or be bought out. WFM is going to trudge along slowly growing for a long time to come. That is the new normal at Whole Foods.
The two conventional grocery giants in Europe have been decimated by Lidl's appeal. Whether a buyout by Lidl or not someone may try to consolidate chains for survival sake. WFM is gonna have to shrink in size either way.
That's a rumor I have recently heard...that a german company is quietly considering a buyout deal.
They aren't talking about it because they are planning to unload whole foods stores on them... They aren't going to be competition they are going to be the new owners.