Over the past few weeks/months, numerous readers have pointed out that Amazon no longer carries Whole Foods gift cards or e-gift cards. (see this link – affiliate link) They were especially useful for using up Shop With Points deals for a Whole Foods discount.
In a separate move, Amazon and many other retailers recently stopped selling Safeway gift cards. And Giant/S&S gift cards were also removed a few months ago, I believe.
You can get points from Amazon. Do you get the yearly bonus of groceries with a grocery based gift card on Amazon? I don’t think you can. You just get 5%, right?
I can see them not wanting to sell Stop & Shop, but why would they not sell Whole Foods??
I imagine they did some data analysis and determined that the giftcards sold on the website were hitting their margins hard. It is the only reason I can think of because it would make sense to keep everyone in the Amazon echo system.
Amazon just announced they will no longer sell magazines/newspapers on Kindle or in print subscription. Seems like they are in cost cutting mode.
They got rid of freaking Amazon Smile. insane how greedy they’re getting.
Whole Foods has been jacking prices lately…eggs are the only cheap thing there anymore.
…”lately”, Clark?
no safeway gift card too, can’t use amex rewards %off without it.
Whole Foods is a ripoff.
Example: Whole Foods cake = $25 for a 8 inch cake. Similar cake (Tres leches) at Sam’s $19 for a 18″ cake. That’s 5 times more expensive.
Another example: Bread – $5 for 20oz bread. Grocery store imports bread from Germany – $7 for 25 oz.
Fuck WF.
They are different things the stores you mention. To each their own – but when it comes to organics, and many other unique products, they are the only place to get them. I’ve gotten plenty of excellent prices there but you should know what each store is good for – you could compare something that WF has cheaper than Sam’s for sure too, so the anecdotal data isn’t a good general argument by any means.
Near me, their fresh baked bread (made in the store literally) is $4ish. That’s a great price for fresh bread made with good ingredients, where many stores don’t even make bread in house. If lowest price point is your criteria, I agree WF isn’t your store, but if quality is, then it is a really solid option for many things, especially for their weekly sales.
Also, Whole Foods organic fruits and vegetables are actually similarly priced when compared to Trader Joe’s, Wegmans, ShopRite, and Stop and Shop.
Wegmans organic vegetables tend not to be as fresh and are sometimes more expensive.
Trader Joe’s fruit is garbage.
https://iwaspoisoned.com/food-recall/trader-joe-s-organic-tropical-fruit-blend-recalled-due-to-potential-hepatitis-a#scroll
Agree with other comments. For organics, WFM tends to be very competitive and frequently less than major grocers.
Agree with other comments. They recently reduced the specific 365 brand of organic frozen vegetables in stores here so they are nearly half price of even some discount groceries and interestingly, .40 cheaper than Amazon Fresh. Fascinating sometimes seeing the differences.
Enjoy eating chemicals from Sam’s. You’re one of those people that want something for nothing.
The quackery in the food business is so powerful. People will pay double for food if they BELIEVE it might make them live one minute longer. It’s a HUGE driver of food inflation. When companies see that upper middle class people will pay these wildly inflated prices all it does is make food more expensive for everyone else. Whole Foods and Amazon share a lot of the blame for this.
“Similar”? It means nothing unless you find “identical” items priced very differently as “similar” is very subjective
I wanna a store that can disclose it’s margins and make stuff with top quality ingredients instead of corn syrup and white flour fillers.
The bread is more expensive at the grocery store in your example. Anyway, I would rather have bread that was baked an hour ago than imported from germany.
They got some really good shit.
You have to be selective. Can’t stand fruit at other places. Whole Foods fruit is always good. It is really expensive. They have some nice things I buy from time to time. Strawberry lemonade popsicles. Alkaline water by jugs. But yeah. It really sucks.
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The haven’t shown up in the search for a long time, but were still available through an old link to the product page (from your order history for instance) until the end of November 2022 at least. No more though, clicking on the link now just shows a ‘Page Not Found’.
I still bought some in January 23 through the old link. Too bad, this was the best use of Amazon GC for me.
This is a bearish signal.
AMZN up by 4% today
Must be great on r/wallstreetbets lol
That is not how any of this works.
While I am a big fan of DoC, I do not think the traders are actively pursuing the headlines here for insight into future stock movements. Bearish signal does not equate to same day stock price decrease.
Perhaps food inflation cutting into grocery margins… can’t use Amazon GC bought at discount and other credits to get grocery GCs
Grocery stores always have had low margins
could be to align with kroger in advance of the yet to be approved merger
Getting my 20% on wholefood via albert for now
Can you explain more?
Albert bank debit card has 20% off at wholefoods every week, YMMV, up yo $5, so I just keep buying wholefoods gift card every week
So up to $25 transaction every week? You can barely get 3 days worth of grocery for that price. If you buy fruits, probably 2 days worth.
Except you have to pay and join their program.
What do you mean? I was told that I had to be a member to continue receiving the discount.
How much you’re paying for Genius?
one month free, and then cancel and then sign up again
Amazon GC getting worse and worse with removal of S&S
What happened to S&S? I don’t use it much but on occasion a good deal will come up to subscribe to.
They don’t sell it anymore for almost a year
You panicked me, I thought you were referring to subscribe & save, always referred to S&S. Never heard of Stop & Shop
Stop & Shop/Giant used to handle gift cards in-house, but switched to CashStar.
Are there other places that sell S&S gift cards? paying full price for groceries these days minus the 5% standard
Not that I have seen.
Walgreens and CVS don’t.
Sam should mean stop and shop groceries, not subscribe and save in Amazon