Why Amazon Will Change Whole Foods — and what that means for the customer

Sturdy
6 min readJan 20, 2018

Business Insider and Twitter are reporting on the Whole Foods “crisis” of empty shelves and low inventory. Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods Market in August of 2017 is not even 1 year ago as of today, but changes have been rapid and massive. You can read more about the $13.7 billion transaction and the “founding ethos of the companies [that] are as different as a chocolate pop tart and organic oatmeal” in this CNBC article.

When the acquisition was announced, it was pretty obvious that there was going to…

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