{"id":7237,"date":"2017-06-23T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T19:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=7237"},"modified":"2017-06-23T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T19:08:18","slug":"get-ready-for-traffic-heading-to-the-new-whole-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/get-ready-for-traffic-heading-to-the-new-whole-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for traffic heading to the new Whole Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had a frequent debate with a friend over the location of the new Whole Foods on Landmark Drive. I say the traffic is going to be horrible. My friend says, &#8220;I just don&#8217;t see that it will add that much traffic.&#8221; His point is that Whole Foods by itself won&#8217;t crush Landmark Drive.<\/p>\n<p>However, something I read today may sway that debate in my favor. As you probably know, Amazon is planning on\u00a0buying\u00a0Whole Foods. There has been much speculation about how Amazon&#8217;s purchase will impact other grocers like Kroger (i.e. Smith&#8217;s to us in Utah). Today<a href=\"https:\/\/www.l2inc.com\/daily-insights\/no-mercy-no-malice\/amzn-wfm-1t\"> I read an article <\/a>discussing how Whole Foods (under Amazon) will provide Mercedes for the price of Toyota. Amazon just doesn&#8217;t care about a profit.<\/p>\n<p>So, why wouldn&#8217;t everyone shop at Whole Foods if they could. Imagine all the cars from Smith&#8217;s trying to access the Whole Foods on Landmark Drive\u00a0on a Saturday. Crazy.<\/p>\n<p>The question we have is how long until Whole Foods moves out near the Home Depot, where they probably should have built in the first place. We&#8217;re sure the cost of the new building will tie them to KJ for now&#8230;but we won&#8217;t be surprised to see them making a move early next decade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had a frequent debate with a friend over the location of the new Whole Foods on Landmark Drive. I say the traffic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}