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Comment by dekhn | Hacker News Reader

business insider is a click farm, this is not a crisis of food shortages, that's just click bait.

The title is definitely misleadingly alarmist. A more sober look at the situation from Forbes[1] still points to order to shelf being the core problem, even if the reality of empty shelves is much less serious than BI screams.

1 https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronaldholden/2018/01/11/stalkin...

Sure, BI is a bit of a click farm, but this does sound like a crisis to me. Not for society in general, but definitely for Whole Foods. Even their loyal customers will get disgusted and leave if the shelves are empty.

Funny bit is, Bezos is an investor in Business Insider.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/apr/05/business-...

If anything, this shows that journalistic integrity is still working properly, at least on these shorter timescales. Unless, of course, that's just what Bezos wants you to believe...

"integrity" is not a word that matches "Business Insider", even if they are willing to poke at their investor's investments.

That was my thinking.

BI has a lot of fluff content, but they do some good work.

maybe this is part of the strategy, create a panic at whole foods to generate BI clicks.

A crisis, in terms of food, means that if there isn't food, people die, or enter starvation mode. It's not even a crisis for Whole Foods- this is a minor issue.

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