Why Amazon’s Whole Foods Deal Is Terrifying Food Makers

Beth Kowitt

Beth Kowitt is a senior writer at Fortune Magazine, where she covers food and agriculture, consumer behavior, and sustainability. She also works on Fortune's Most Powerful Women franchise and is a co-chair of the MPW Next Gen conference. She joined Fortune in 2008 and is based in New York.

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Retail Why Amazon’s Whole Foods Deal Is Terrifying Food Makers For years, Amazon amzn has been the specter looming over retail, as once-dominant department stores and specialty chains fell on harder and harder times. But up until now, the e-commerce titan has

Sheryl Sandberg,CEO of Facebook and Arianna Huffington,Co founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post attend the 2011 Matrix Awards at The Waldorf Astoria on April 11, 2011 in New York City.

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Retail How Whole Foods and Amazon Fell in Love Amazon and Whole Foods wfm have mostly stayed mum on their pending tie-up since the acquisition was announced last week. But we got some new details on how Whole Foods CEO and co-founder John Mackey

MPW How Charles Schwab Execs Helped an Entrepreneur from Kosovo up Her Game In April, Melita Ymeraga left behind her three children and her own business in Kosovo to come to the U.S. Ymeraga was one of 21 women from around the globe, who descended on the U.S. to participate

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Retail Whole Foods Sells to Amazon to Shake Off ‘Greedy Bastard’ Activists John Mackey has never been one to shy away from controversy. And when it came to fighting activist investor Jana Partners, he seemed ready for all out war. In a June Texas Monthly story that came out

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Howard Schultz former CEO Starbucks, photographed May 2017 in Seattle.

Retail Howard Schultz Has Something Left to Prove The longtime CEO of Starbucks has “stepped down” to become executive chairman. Now he’s leading the chain’s efforts to launch a higher-end coffee business. It may mean even more to him than it does

Retail A Grocery Store for All, Powered By Wasted Food If you really want to make Doug Rauch happy, stop using the term “food waste.” Just call it wasted food. “No one in America wants a second helping of food waste,” the founder

MPW Best Advice From Some of the World’s Most Powerful Women This spring 21 women from around the globe descended on the U.S. to participate in the Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership. In its 12th year, the three-week long

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Retail How Starbucks Won Over Its Employees’ Parents in China China is a notoriously challenging market for American retailers. Starbucks sbux , which is opening a store a day in China, is proving to be a major exception to the rule—a point that the

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