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Your pitch deck isn’t an application for financial aid
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By Joseph Flaherty, Director of Content & CommunityIf you’re pitching investors, one of the easiest ways to improve your deck is swapping out blank interstitial slides, or the dull logo cover slide, with pictures of your product in use or in context.Don’t think of your deck as an application for financial aid — a series of boxes to be dutifully filled out. Instead, conceive of your slides as a movie poster designed to draw in unsure viewers, who happen to have a nearly endless supply of alternatives to consider.To that end, most decks would benefit from more pictures. Don’t overdo it, but any title slides that are largely blank are good places to show off.If you make a consumer product, and it’s for sale at the Apple Store or Whole Foods, get a picture of it on the shelf. #ProudInvestor (...)

#venture-capital #business #startup #technology #entrepreneurship

Comment l’ogre Amazon digère la concurrence
▻https://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/logre-amazon-digere-concurrence/00085493

Amazon rétrécit le temps et mange la planète. Le 28 juin, il a annoncé l’achat du distributeur de médicaments en ligne PillPack et son intention de se lancer dans le secteur de la pharmacie. L’an dernier, l’ancienne petite librairie en ligne a avalé Whole Foods, la grande chaîne américaine de supermarchés bio. Soit près de 500 magasins en une bouchée. À Paris, l’ogre est en passe d’aspirer la distribution des produits Monoprix. Inutile bientôt de faire la queue à la caisse Livraison ou de naviguer sur (...)

#Apple #Google #Walmart #WholeFoods #Amazon #domination #concurrence #Diapers.com #PillPack #Quidsi #marketing (...)

##Monoprix

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Let’s Get Big: #amazon vs #trump in a Battle of the Titans
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Donald Trump’s dislike of Amazon is well-known, if not exactly reality-based. They abuse the USPS, they pay no state sales taxes, they are shuttering shopping malls built by some of his developer friends. In the real world, package delivery (unlike first-class mail delivery) is the one brightish spot on the Postal Service’s dismal balance sheet, Amazon now pays sales tax in every state that levies it, and the company boasts a growing portfolio of physical stores (Whole Foods, Amazon bookstores, and the just-debuted Amazon Go.)But Trump just fired another tweet missile across Amazon’s bow. The stock dropped precipitously, losing more than 200 points from its 2018 high. Half the analysts didn’t know what to say. The other half touted it as an incredible buying opportunity. And it would be an (...)

#aws #hq2 #jeff-bezos

From Whole Foods to Amazon, Invasive Technology Controlling Workers Is More Dystopian Than You Think
▻http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/20934/whole-foods-amazon-ups-tracking-orwell-dystopia

You’ve been fired. According to your employer’s data, your facial expressions showed you were insubordinate and not trustworthy. You also move your hands at a rate that is considered substandard. Other companies you may want to work for could receive this data, making it difficult for you to find other work in this field.

That may sound like a scenario straight out of a George Orwell novel, but it’s the future many American workers could soon be facing.

#dystopie #contrôle #technologie

Black Farmers Are Sowing The Seeds Of Health And Empowerment : The Salt : NPR
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For him, farming is about more than just his own health. Newman hopes to encourage more people of color to become farmers and push for sustainable farming practices so healthy food becomes accessible to those who can’t afford it.

“It’s not just about our happy damn chickens. This is about how do we fix this system,” he says.

Newman says when he switched careers, he realized how overwhelmingly white farming is in America — he felt alone as a person of color. “You go into Whole Foods around here, you don’t see black people,” he says. “You go to farmers markets, don’t see that many black people. You go to farms, don’t see any black people.” Farming is more than 90 percent white — the second-whitest job in the United States, according to 2016 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

#agriculture #États-Unis #communauté_afro-américaine

Whole Foods Will Drop Prices On Monday, #Amazon Says In Detailing New Grocery Strategy

Amazon is cutting the prices of #bananas, butter, organic eggs, and other best-selling staples at Whole Foods’ 470 stores, promising customers lower costs and targeting the grocer’s “Whole Paycheck” nickname. The online giant also says its Amazon Prime members will get special prices and perks.

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#agriculture #prix #beurre #œufs #oeufs

Je ne savais pas qu’il y avait un lien si direct entre Amazon et la vente de #produits_agricoles...
cc @odilon @reka

Amazon-Whole Foods: ’The war for retail will be won in groceries’ - Aug. 25, 2017
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So why is the retail giant spending $13.7 billion to acquire 460 brick-and-mortar Whole Foods stores and lower prices on “organic bananas” and “responsibly-farmed salmon?”

Answer: To dominate the grocery business like it has many others by increasing the number of customers while undercutting the competition.

Amazon will make Whole Foods more accessible to more consumers. And it will turn them into Amazon customers and advance its bid to become the dominant player in all of retail — the so-called everything store.

“The pot of gold at the end of the road for Amazon is groceries,” said Cooper Smith, an Amazon analyst at L2 Inc. “The war for retail will be won in groceries. It’s the largest category of consumer retail, and the largest untapped opportunity for Amazon.”

There is room for expansion, as well. By lowering its prices, Amazon can open new Whole Foods locations in markets that traditionally could not afford high-priced organic bananas and responsibly farmed salmon, making a run at companies like supermarket leaders like WalMart and Kroger.

“Generally Whole Foods goes into markets with six-figure incomes and college-educated residents. But with Amazon lowering Whole Foods’ prices, you could get Whole Foods in towns where you don’t traditionally see them,” supermarket analyst David J. Livingston said. “It could open the doors for any medium-size city in the country.”

#Amazon #Commerce_électronique

Amazon-Whole Foods: ’The war for retail will be won in groceries’ - Aug. 25, 2017
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Amazon believes the future of grocery shopping is online.
So why is the retail giant spending $13.7 billion to acquire 460 brick-and-mortar Whole Foods stores and lower prices on “organic bananas” and “responsibly-farmed salmon?”

Answer: To dominate the grocery business like it has many others by increasing the number of customers while undercutting the competition.
Amazon will make Whole Foods more accessible to more consumers. And it will turn them into Amazon customers and advance its bid to become the dominant player in all of retail — the so-called everything store.

“The pot of gold at the end of the road for Amazon is groceries,” said Cooper Smith, an Amazon analyst at L2 Inc. “The war for retail will be won in groceries. It’s the largest category of consumer retail, and the largest untapped opportunity for Amazon.”
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Amazon’s competitors are already taking steps to react. Earlier this week, WalMart said that it would start offering its products on Google Express, the search company’s online shopping mall.
But industry experts say the Google-WalMart deal has little chance of getting in the way of Amazon’s ambitions.

Silicon Valley siphons our data like oil. But the deepest drilling has just begun | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/23/silicon-valley-big-data-extraction-amazon-whole-foods-facebook

Personal data is to the tech world what oil is to the fossil fuel industry. That’s why companies like Amazon and Facebook plan to dig deeper than we ever imagined
What if a cold drink cost more on a hot day?

Customers in the UK will soon find out. Recent reports suggest that three of the country’s largest supermarket chains are rolling out surge pricing in select stores. This means that prices will rise and fall over the course of the day in response to demand. Buying lunch at lunchtime will be like ordering an Uber at rush hour.

This may sound pretty drastic, but far more radical changes are on the horizon. About a week before that report, Amazon announced its $13.7bn purchase of Whole Foods. A company that has spent its whole life killing physical retailers now owns more than 460 stores in three countries.

The acquisition – Amazon’s largest ever – struck some observers as strange. But Amazon tends to run about a decade ahead of its rivals. It owes its success to big, counterintuitive moves. This is a company that saw the power of online retail in 1994, and of cloud computing in 2006. Its purchase of Whole Foods represents a similarly far-sighted incursion into a lucrative new frontier.

End of the checkout line: the looming crisis for American cashiers
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Amazon isn’t abandoning online retail for brick-and-mortar. Rather, it’s planning to fuse the two. It’s going to digitize our daily lives in ways that make surge-pricing your groceries look primitive by comparison. It’s going to expand Silicon Valley’s surveillance-based business model into physical space, and make money from monitoring everything we do.

Silicon Valley is an extractive industry. Its resource isn’t oil or copper, but data.

#data #irl #GAFA

#Amazon Meal Kits, #Falafel Patties with Tomato & Sumac Salad, Serves 2: Amazon.com: Grocery & Gourmet Food
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About the product
– Middle Eastern chickpea fritters with a tomato and sumac salad, a Yemeni hot sauce, and pita bread
– Easy-to-follow, chef-designed recipe
– Includes perfectly portioned fresh ingredients
– Quick to cook—from box to table in about 30 minutes
Serves two people

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Currently unavailable.
We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock.

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In the “Black Mayonnaise” of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, Alien Life Is Being Born - Facts So Romantic
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On a late fall morning, Joseph Alexiou fastened his life jacket and stepped into an eight-foot fiberglass boat floating on the Gowanus Canal. A licensed New York City tour guide, and an amateur historian, Alexiou was preparing to take a passenger on an unsanctioned tour of the waterway he’d spent three years researching for his book, Gowanus: Brooklyn’s Curious Canal. Alexiou, 32, confessed that when boating on the canal, he felt slightly afraid for his life. The rowboat pulled away from the rubble at the foot of Second Avenue, beside the new Brooklyn parole check-in office and across from Whole Foods Market. The water was milky green, with an almost oily thickness, and gangs of loose lumber blew crosswise in the wind. Alexiou took a picture of graffiti that said “Keep Gowanus dirty.” (...)

Whole Foods Detroit: Can a grocery store really fight elitism, racism, and obesity?
▻http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2014/11/whole_foods_detroit_can_a_grocery_store_really_fight_elitism_racism_and.html

... if you consider Robb’s broader initial goals—to reach families just trying to eat healthier, to make truly healthy food truly accessible to a broad swath of the city, to tackle the class divide in health—Whole Foods hasn’t gotten very far. Robb’s eloquent talk aside, Whole Foods isn’t too preoccupied with finding a market among shoppers like Ruff and Williams, for whom the pitch that cage-free and genetically modified are healthier than other food doesn’t merit the markup.

Shoppers wanting simple, affordable healthy food, rather than an aspirational product, have better options elsewhere. And for indisputably poor people like Brown, who aspire to buy what Whole Foods sells, the prices simply aren’t low enough to work. This is not to call into question the sincerity of Robb’s desire to improve health outcomes in Detroit, but rather the impracticality—if not disingenuousness—of tying such a broad social goal to a marketing plan that requires, by definition, spending 29 percent more on your groceries.

For anyone looking to address health and diet disparities, the lesson from Whole Foods in Detroit may well be that the problem is not food, but poverty. And that is a problem that requires more than a supermarket to solve.

Dimanche, bonne nouvelle (enfin) au pays de l’#islamophobie d’État : la chaîne Whole Foods avait lancé une campagne de promo autour du ramadan.

The Arab American News - First national Ramadan promotion by major grocery chain
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Whole Foods Market has collaborated with Saffron Road to launch a Ramadan marketing campaign. Both companies are hosting several blog posts and giving shoppers the chance to win free Saffron Road products and gift cards valued at $100 on the national food chain’s website Whole Story Blog. The blogs are about preparing for Ramadan and learning the meaning of halal.

Malheureusement, Reza Aslan vient de poster cette info :
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Under pressure from Right Wing Nuts, Whole Foods cancels #Ramadan promotion. Right. BC my local Whole Foods is full of Republicans. Morons

Ce billet développe cette affaire :
Whole Foods : « We Should Not Highlight Ramadan » - Houston
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Under pressure from right-wing bloggers who blindly associate Ramadan and Muslims with terrorism and burqas, Whole Foods has sent an email to its stores across the United States in which it specifically tells stores not to promote Ramadan this year.