whole foods

Amazon Plans to Expand Whole Foods, Ramping up Competition with Major Grocers

January 9, 2019 Dees Stribling, Bisnow National

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. …

Amazon and Whole Foods After a Year: Supermarkets Will See Massive Changes

December 17, 2018 Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes

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

December 17, 2018 Uday Sampath Kumar, Reuters

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. …