Amazon-owned Whole Foods Scraps Smaller 365 Store Expansion
ole Foods Market once had an ambitious plan to broaden customer appeal with its 365 stores. But now it’s saying goodbye to the cheaper and smaller store format. …
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Amazon Plans to Expand Whole Foods, Ramping up Competition with Major Grocers
The expansion of the brand, which the e-commerce giant bought in 2017 for more than $13B, would add suburban locations and locations in new markets in the United States and possibly elsewhere. …
Kroger is Changing Grocery Shopping as we know it — and it’s Becoming a Bigger Threat to Amazon
Kroger is rolling out new technology to its stores that could change grocery shopping as we know it. …
Amazon and Whole Foods After a Year: Supermarkets Will See Massive Changes
Did Amazon make a mistake spending all that capital to buy a physical-store retailer? Maybe, but the point of the Whole Foods acquisition didn’t really have to do with the stores. It had to do with selling online. …
Instacart, Amazon’s Whole Foods relationship to end next year
Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods in August 2017 has been a double-edged sword for Instacart, throwing the Whole Foods relationship into doubt while driving rival grocers such as Kroger (KR.N), Aldi and Costco (COST.O) into Instacart’s arms. …