As Amazon grows following the announcement of their Whole Foods Market Inc. purchase, the US government is reportedly considering taking a closer look at the e-commerce giant.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The top Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives’ antitrust subcommittee has voiced concerns about Amazon.com Inc’s $13.7 billion plan to buy Whole Foods Market Inc and is pushing for a hearing to look into the deal’s potential impact on consumers.
Fresh food is on the rise and packaged food is in steep decline.
‘Would you like a side of kale with that cellphone battery?’
That sounds like an inquiry coming from your Alexa in the not-so-distant future as Amazon.com is set to purchase organic supermarket Whole Foods for $13.7 billion. The acquisition will firmly move the online retail behemoth into the realms of both the brick-and-mortar business as well as grocery.
Whole Foods may still be seen by shoppers as an alternative to corporate grocery chains, but the highly-profitable corporation just opened its first “365 by Whole Foods” in Los Angeles in an effort to use kiosks and robots to cut 60 percent of staffing costs and maximize profitability.
After appearing in the national media to charge that a Whole Foods store in Texas wrote a gay slur on his cake decoration, an Austin man is now admitting the story was a hoax, canceling his lawsuit, and is apologizing for his claims.
Openly-gay Texas pastor Jordan Brown, who is currently suing Whole Foods over a cake he claims was decorated with a gay slur, is facing a lawsuit after failing to pay thousands in student loan debt.
At just 11-years-old, little Mikaela Ulmer had the guts to launch her very own lemonade stand. And now her BeeSweet Lemonade has landed a distribution deal with United Natural Foods worth $11 million.
With Texas’ new handgun open carry law going into effect on January 1, six businesses have taken pains to be sure Texans understand that open carry of handguns will not be tolerated in their businesses.
With open carry of handguns in Texas set to become law on January 1, First Baptist Church of Arlington has decided to allow congregants with concealed licenses to carry openly in church buildings if they so choose.
Texas’ homegrown grocery chain, H-E-B, announced it will forbid the open carry of firearms in their 316 stores when the law changes later this week. On Friday, Texas law will change to allow holders of a Concealed Handgun License to openly carry handguns that are secured by belt or shoulder holsters.
Accused of exploiting prison inmates by selling food products they worked on, Whole Foods will terminate the process.
Over a dozen protesters, irate about the treatment of a black man by a black security guard at a Whole Foods several weeks ago, shut the Oakland store down on Thursday.
Whole Foods has permanently banned one security firm and replaced it with another after a guard in Oakland allegedly beat a man bloody and unconscious.
Whole Foods has come under fire for selling $6 “asparagus water”–water with three green stalks of asparagus in it. Whole Foods reportedly sells a bundle of asparagus for $5.
Organic, high-end grocer Whole Foods announced on Wednesday that it is opening a budget-conscientious chain known as “365 Whole Foods Market.” Silver Lake, a “hipster” neighborhood in Los Angeles, will be the first location, slated to open in the first half of 2016.
