More than 70% of the respondents told Bania that they had not noticed any changes in prices in Whole Foods over the past three months -- even though the company has touted its efforts to lower prices to be more competitive with supermarkets
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Good point. No one has seen lower prices because they haven't BEEN lowered, unless it's in some gimmicky K-Mart way. BTW the reason going private isn't an option now is that it would probably be at a stock valuation well BELOW the current stock price. It will be sold for the value of the brand, which in case no one has noticed, is damaged. Add up all the square footage going to natural and organic foods by every single competitor. Not a business anyone wants to throw money at. Private equity has billions to spend but those players aren't stupid.
It should go private again.