Amazon Whole Foods

It makes Amazon a national grocery competitor overnight.

Creating any retail chain takes a long time to establish especially in very competitive competition and low margins. By acquiring Whole Foods, Amazon gained 465 physical stores to create its vision for the future of retail.

Fast Delivery

With its purchase of Whole Foods and the hundreds of groceries it has, Amazon has an opportunity to expand the items it can deliver faster under Prime Now service.

Better Locations

Whole Foods has 465 stores and almost are in great urban or suburban locations1. A very great place to expand its distribution footprint. Now Amazon can use as a neighborhood drop-off point and also can be used to expand its distribution system for local delivery. It gives

It is cutting down the human resources and promoting the machine automation. Thousands of workers at Whole Foods stores across the country now worries about losing their jobs. Amazon’s very business model is it eliminates the concept of the cashier position and replaces it with the technology. Since Amazon is famous for its low and affordable price. It raises the question raising doubt about the quality of the product. There is a risk that the core values of Whole Foods Market which is re-known for its self-created organic and healthy product might replace with the low costing products.

Talking about the culture of the Whole Foods. It is all about an upscale experience. This market position is reflected in the corporate cultures of both organizations, and they are not compatible. And that bodes ill for the merger. In a short term it might gain a certain profit from it, but in long run by operating in low and affordable cost, it raises a question whether the profitability of company can keep up in this competitive retail industry or

Soon, customers will be welcomed with a better selection of items at fewer costs and a more helpful shopping knowledge, says, Light, who is additionally a previous head advertising officer for McDonald's. "Those are for the most part huge advantages, similar ones that helped McDonald's turned into the main retail market." This solves one of the greatest hurdles too far-reaching selection of online basic need, as items would be localized, fresh and still convey the Whole Foods quality. Brad Stone, technology journalist for Bloomberg and Businessweek and creator of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, Says, "You can see Amazon using the last mile to expedite the delivery of meals to the home to compete with UberEats, DoorDash and GrubHub," he said1. Whatever the future holds for the Amazon-Whole Foods pairing, we, as a customer, can make certain numerous developments are thoroughly verified later on. Because of its huge purchasing power and shipping ability, Amazon will have the capacity to actualize their store network to cut down expenses. However, the downfall is that as we observe Amazon purchasing Whole Foods, a large number of employees at Whole Foods stores must now stress over losing their