[jbob2000]

Target has real-estate, they've done all the legwork to figure out where big stores like that need to be. Everything is already built, Amazon just needs to put their logo on it. Voila - digital empire turned physical overnight.

[dragonwriter]

How is that different from Whole Foods?

[jbob2000]

Whole foods has ~470 stores in North America and the UK, Target has ~1,800 worldwide. And I've never seen a Whole Foods next to a Target. Amazon just quadrupled their real estate footprint!

[saryant]

The Whole Foods flagship store in Boulder directly faces a SuperTarget.

(Also faces the big new Google office. Shopping in a store owned by Amazon with that staring at you was kinda surreal the first few days after the acquisition)

[dragonwriter]

> And I've never seen a Whole Foods next to a Target

I've seen a couple places where they are in reasonably close proximity in Northern California; that can't be unique.

[zodPod]

Whole Foods is a high end grocery store and Target is a retail store?

[dragonwriter]

Grocery is a subset of retail; they are both retail stores.

[zodPod]

Yes but I wouldn't go to Whole Foods if I was looking to buy a radio. Therefore, expanding to Target would offer more variety than Whole Foods would. That was the point of difference that I saw. Sure if I go to target they have groceries but they're a different type of grocery (as I said initially.. Whole Foods is high end) plus, as I stated, you wouldn't go to Whole Foods if you were looking to buy a camera or a radio or an xbox.