![]() ![]() The concept of a “set it and forget it” loyalty program never entered the minds of Amazon officials when they launched the enormously popular Prime premium loyalty program in 2005. ![]() Amazon Prime has really ruined the store.Amazon is expanding Prime Whole Foods benefits to more states while dropping its logo from Prime. It made it very hard during the holidays. Amazon orders are making it hard for some departments like Produce & Bakery to keep up with the demand along with the actual instore demand. But at my store they are independent contractors versus employees like some other stores. Produce will restock and the shoppers all come and completely empty it. They wear their masks under their noses and when customers ask them questions they just shove them off to us (Like you shop all day you should know where stupid peanut butter is!? I don't even work in Grocery). They wear clothing that we would never be allowed to wear. They literally shove their phones in my face saying nothing treating me like I'm some peasant. Now I won't scan until I confirm for myself. They lie to me and say there is "no more of this item on the shelf" to scan my badge to avoid having to look or ask for an item and then I look to see the shelf is stocked. They leave their carts in the way of everything and aren't even near them. They block the employee entrance completely sometimes making it almost impossible to get in and out of the employee entrance. ![]() They have taken our entire front end and cafe due to the amount of orders they get and shoppers they have. I can't predict what will happen in the short term nor what the actual endgame is but it can't be good for anyone. Amazon all of a sudden has infrastructure it can't support- IE: Employees, property upkeep, stock. The shoppers at the actual stores aren't bothered by APN shoppers.īut they won't do that because then the money goes to Amazon and not Whole Foods. What would be more efficient is having the APN shoppers work out of a warehouse where they don't encumber the actual shoppers. Which makes Daddy Bezos happy because he can add a few million to his already massive fortune. All stores combined makes it look as if the brand, Whole Foods, is doing well. This makes it seem as if the store is more profitable than it really is. So, the Amazon shoppers- APN shoppers- are filling orders in the store and the revenue that each of their orders makes is then attributed to the individual store. And if prime delivery begins to outstrip in store shopping the axe will come down fast and hard. I can absolutly see it eventualy going to full warehouse style. Most of our ON tries to be helpful since its gets people out of thebway faster but by 5 am there begins to be to many to work around (effeciently). Most of the 4am prime shoppers have figured out the rythem by now but the number of new hires is hard to keep up with. And now we have back of house shopping space for prime for high volume items from produce and grocery. Our Pub was ripped out and converted to be entirely prime space with staging. We lost am eating space, juice bar, most storage space in a back hall and an entire cooler to prime. By 6am we maynas well be open with the amount of carts and bodies moving around. At this point i think were up to 20 at 4am? Its hard to tell. (Grocery does about 100k a day on average for refrence) ![]()
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