October 29, 2019 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon, Amazon Prime, grocery delivery, Whole Foods Market
Leading Headlines, Retail News
SEATTLE — Amazon.com Inc. will offer free two-hour grocery delivery to its Prime members, the company said on Tuesday. The move eliminates an additional $14.99 per month fee that Prime members previously had to pay to access the company’s Amazon Fresh grocery delivery service.“I think this offering is truly a game changer and that this
September 26, 2018 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon, Whole Foods Market
Retail News
SEATTLE — Amazon continues to expand grocery delivery from its Whole Foods Market stores, a service now available in 48 cities across the United States. The retailer this week introduced grocery delivery in Milwaukee; Omaha; Detroit; Madison, Wis.; St. Louis; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Tulsa, Okla.; and three Florida cities — Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville —
August 8, 2018 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon, grocery pickup, Stephenie Landry, Whole Foods Market
Retail News
AUSTIN, Texas and SEATTLE — Amazon and Whole Foods Market have announced the roll out of grocery pickup beginning in Sacramento and Virginia Beach, with more cities to come throughout 2018. Prime members can now shop Whole Foods Market’s selection of fresh and organic produce, bakery, dairy, meat and seafood, floral and everyday staples and pick
July 24, 2018 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon Prime, Amazon.com Inc., Christina Minardi, Whole Foods Market
Retail News
SEATTLE — Amazon and its Whole Foods Market chain announced that they are expanding the delivery of natural and organic products from Whole Foods Market stores through Amazon’s Prime Now service in the greater Miami and New York metropolitan areas. Prime members in those cities can shop through online, or by using the Prime Now app
September 4, 2017 by Jeffrey Woldt and Chain Drug Review
2017 NACDS Total Store Expo, Alex Gourlay, Amazon, Google, Google Express, Jeffrey Woldt, Kantar Retail, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Steve Anderson, Vision 2028, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Walmart, Whole Foods Market, XRC Labs
2017, Issue 09-04-2017, Issues, Opinion
The dynamism of the retail industry’s most active, innovative and forward-thinking members is raising the stakes for everyone in the field. Major developments with potentially far-reaching implications for the way consumers shop are occurring at an unprecedented rate. In just the past few weeks, Walmart and Amazon.com Inc. have ratcheted up the pressure on their
August 30, 2017 by CDR Blog and Chain Drug Review
Amazon, Amazon Prime, AmazonFresh, David Sprinkle, food and beverage market, food and beverages sales, food retailers, Packaged Facts, Whole Foods Market
CDR Blog
Amazon’s closing of the Whole Foods Market acquisition this week is sure to add to brick-and-mortar retailers’ anxiety about the e-tailing giant’s ongoing march into traditional retail channels. Speculation about a potential move by Amazon into the pharmacy space has disquieted drug chains and other retail pharmacy players. But the online retailer’s grocery market entry
August 24, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon, Amazon Prime, Amazon Worldwide Consumer, Amazon-Whole Foods deal, AmazonFresh, Jeff Wilke, John Mackey, Whole Foods Market
Business, Retail News
SEATTLE — Amazon announced on Thursday that its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc. will close on Aug. 28. Amazon also revealed details about how it intends to lower prices and integrate its Prime membership program into the Whole Foods checkout process. The company’s bid for Whole Foods was approved Aug. 23 by
August 14, 2017 by Gregg Lipman and Chain Drug Review
Amazon, Big Drug Retail, Big Pharma, CBX, chain drug store industry, Gregg Lipman, Jeff Bezos, Whole Foods Market
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Opinion
What would happen to your business if, tomorrow, Amazon bought a major chain like CVS Pharmacy, Walgreens or Rite Aid? Not so long ago, if you put this question to an executive in the chain drug store industry, the response might have been “Well, that’s not going to happen.” But now that Amazon has announced
July 3, 2017 by Bill Schiffner
Amazon, Jeff Bezos, John Mackey, Whole Foods Market
2017, Issue 07-03-2017, Issues, News
SEATTLE — Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to acquire Whole Foods Market Inc. for $13.7 billion, including debt, in its biggest deal ever. The acquisition will launch the e-commerce giant into hundreds of physical stores and fulfill a long-held goal of selling more groceries to consumers. Amazon will pay $42 a share in cash for the
July 3, 2017 by Jeffrey Woldt and Chain Drug Review
Aldi, Amazon, chain drug stores, drug chains, food and beverage sales, grocery business, Jason Hart, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Woldt, Lidl, Whole Foods Market
2017, Issue 07-03-2017, Issues, Opinion
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.” To the extent that Emerson’s insight is applicable to the grocery business, retailers vying for a share of the nation’s $800 billion a year in food and beverage sales, a contingent that includes
July 3, 2017 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
Albertsons, Amazon, chain drug retailing, CVS Pharmacy, David Pinto, Walgreens Boots Alliance-Rite Aid merger, Whole Foods Market
2017, Issue 07-03-2017, Issues, Opinion
The biggest stories to come out of chain drug retailing thus far in 2017 are non-stories. Indeed, it’s grocery and discount store retailers that are making all the news, while drug chains continue to anticipate the newest developments — or, more likely, wait for them to happen. In the supermarket business, Albertsons Cos. is making
June 16, 2017 by Geoff Walden and Chain Drug Review
Amazon.com, Christopher Mandeville, Jeff Bezos, Jefferies, John Mackey, Whole Foods Market
Business, Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Retail News
SEATTLE — Amazon.com Inc. will acquire Whole Foods Market Inc. for $13.7 billion, including debt, in the biggest deal ever for the e-tailer as it continues to encroach on the grocery sector. Amazon will pay $42 a share in cash for the natural food chain, the companies said Friday. Whole Foods cofounder and chief executive
April 18, 2017 by CDR Blog and Chain Drug Review
Amazon, BJ's Wholesale Club, CVC Capital Partners, Leonard Green & Partners, Whole Foods Market
CDR Blog
Amazon has sure fed the acquisition rumor mill recently. The latest scuttlebutt: The online retail giant is taking a look at BJ’s Wholesale Club. The New York Post has reported that privately held BJ’s is putting itself on the block after its ownership determined that an IPO was ill-timed. Citing anonymous sources, the Post article