Whole Foods May Put Tattoo Parlors Inside New Millennial-Focused Stores
Adjusting to changing markets and the morphing of "convenience."
We no longer need the one stop shopping convenience of banks, pharmacies, and dry cleaners under the same roof as the groceries.
The Internet has changed all that. We really don't even need big grocery stores any more. We won't need more than the small convenience shop within a gas station to pick up a milk or butter because one unexpectedly used up what was ordered online.
If you use Peapod, you get all your groceries delivered - for only $10!
If you use services such as Plated, Blue Apron or the Purple Carrot - you not only don't have to leave your house to shop for fresh, natural or organic food food, you don't even have to think - you barely have to peel, chop, slice or dice - just pour, mix, turn on an appliance or two, put the food in, wait (maybe stir a time or two), turn off appliances, put food on the plate and enjoy.
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We no longer need the one stop shopping convenience of banks, pharmacies, and dry cleaners under the same roof as the groceries.
The Internet has changed all that. We really don't even need big grocery stores any more. We won't need more than the small convenience shop within a gas station to pick up a milk or butter because one unexpectedly used up what was ordered online.
If you use Peapod, you get all your groceries delivered - for only $10!
If you use services such as Plated, Blue Apron or the Purple Carrot - you not only don't have to leave your house to shop for fresh, natural or organic food food, you don't even have to think - you barely have to peel, chop, slice or dice - just pour, mix, turn on an appliance or two, put the food in, wait (maybe stir a time or two), turn off appliances, put food on the plate and enjoy.
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We are losing the regional flavor though.
Traveling by car across country was a real adventure when I was young. Today its about the destination, not the journey in the US.
Overseas the unique culture is still there to a certain extent but that is disappearing, too.
Travel is easier, but less interesting per mile or per hour.
I've seen a few beautiful tats but I don't think the young folk are thinking ahead to what those tats are going to look like when they are older.
When I see tats even the beautiful ones, all I can think of is when I was a kid and would take silly putty, press it on the comics, take it off and then stretch it.
Anyone who has done that knows it would be insane to get a tattoo anywhere other than the ankle or, maybe, the shoulder :)
Then, on a parallel path, starting in the late 70s, there was the development of little stores known as health food stores that morphed into the old fashion grocery store (only it sold health/organic foods, vitamins, etc.) Now those grocery stores are shifting into a new type of mega store.
The technology and the Internet are changing business models in every walk of life and the changes are occurring with increasing rapidity.
Ever since this gal from a sleepy town in New England walked into a Meijer's Thrifty Acre Store (Ypsilanti, MI) in the late seventies, I have been fascinated by the different offerings (or non-offerings) of grocery stores. I'm also fascinated by the regional differences and what works in one place and doesn't in another and why.
The fate of all brick and mortar store models are in question now. Who would ever have thought that possible?
In an upscale bedroom community near us there's a nice Whole Foods. There's a shortage of men shopping there. That's all I'm going to say about that...