Evidence receipt / preference
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: preference
21 Jun 2017 Acquired Whole Foods Market
“At the end of the day, I think Whole Foods was the best one to buy because it is the best selection and the most premium customer segment and the most premium real estate.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- preference
- Recorded
- 21 Jun 2017
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Whole Foods Market
Transcript context
…The rest of retail, yeah, absolutely. I don’t know. Like if they didn’t buy Whole Foods, will they have bought a different grocery store? If you look at Albertsons bought Safeway for $9 billion a couple of years ago and so that, I suppose Albertsons could have bought Whole Foods. I know they were considering it. Amazon maybe could have bought Albertsons. At the end of the day, I think Whole Foods was the best one to buy because it is the best selection and the most premium customer segment and the most premium real estate. And it actually had to the extent any large chain did, it actually had differentiation. I mean, I don’t think it was lost on Amazon that, you know, I seriously doubt Jenny and I were the only folks that used Instacart to get Whole Foods. And I really doubt that that was lost on Amazon.…
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