Quote Originally Posted by king183 View Post
I hear only crickets. When Whole Foods announced they were coming yesterday, this is exactly what I thought about. People who were saying our liquor laws are preventing us from getting stores like WF didn't know what they were talking about. If they can make a profit doing business here, they'll come here. That's what matters. Clearly they think they can do good business without selling wine or liquor in their stores.

I'm all for reforming our liquor laws, but let's try to use facts in these discussions rather than personal opinion masquerading as fact.
For the purpose of the discussion, I would make the proposal that WF is a different kind of grocer. They have wonderful produce, wonderful meat and fish, excellent prepared foods and grains. I bet most of these are significantly higher profit margin departments than normal grocery goods. WF doesn't have many of the same brands as other grocers so there is only indirect competition between them and Homeland or Wal Mart.

If Kroger or Safeway were studying whether or not to (re)enter the market, they would have different considerations and would have to consider each product in the store.