Social media reaction: Amazon cuts Whole Foods item prices
Around the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, social media users weighed in on the online retail giant’s roll-back on specific staples and roll-out of popular tech gadgets. [View the story “Reaction:...
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Can this startup protect retail stores from Amazon?
SANTA CLARA — For retail stores watching helplessly as Amazon wolfs down the contents of America’s wallet, news that the company’s first move after its $14 billion Whole Foods acquisition would be...
View ArticleSkip the checkout lines: Whole Foods, Walmart and other stores embrace online...
Grocery shopping can feel like you’re navigating through an obstacle course filled with crowded parking lots, long lines and screaming kids. But a growing number of Americans are checking off their...
View ArticleWhole Foods’ first Bay Area small-format store to open by end of year
CONCORD — Whole Foods will land a 365 store — its smaller format concept — in the Bay Area this December, with more to follow. The grocery chain revealed that its Concord 365 store, the first of its...
View ArticleNew Whole Foods store in Concord to include plant-based restaurants
CONCORD — Whole Foods’ new small format store — which will open under its 365 brand — will have a restaurant and a cafe inside that focus on plant-based meals. The 365 store is slated to open Dec. 6 in...
View ArticleThese Bay Area Whole Foods stores were impacted by a credit card breach
Whole Foods shoppers in the Bay Area may have had their credit card information accessed by hackers, according to a warning from the retailer. The breach affected taprooms and full table-service...
View ArticleAMC Theaters strikes deal for downtown Sunnyvale 12-screen cinema
SUNNYVALE — AMC Theaters has struck a deal to lease space for a 12-screen movie theater in downtown Sunnyvale, a key component for an emerging retail complex in the city, developers said Tuesday. The...
View ArticleAmazon to roll out pop-up stores inside Bay Area Whole Foods locations
Amazon’s presence in Whole Foods stores is about to get more obvious inside Bay Area locations. The e-commerce giant, which bought Whole Foods Market earlier this year, will be rolling out...
View ArticleAmazon gives Prime members taste of discounts at Whole Foods
NEW YORK — Ahead of Thanksgiving, Amazon is giving Prime members their first taste of special discounts at its recently acquired Whole Foods stores. Amazon says it will email Prime members a coupon...
View ArticleA look at Whole Foods’ first 365 store in the Bay Area
CONCORD — Whole Foods Market’s newest store is taking shape in Concord and set to open Wednesday. The store, which will open at 9 a.m., is the first of the grocery retailer’s 365 stores — a...
View ArticleAnalog Devices signs big Santa Clara lease, will relocate 930 employees
SANTA CLARA — Analog Devices has struck a deal to lease two large office buildings in a gleaming new Santa Clara office complex for more than 900 employees, the company said Wednesday....
View ArticleAmazon rolls out new Prime discounts at Bay Area Whole Foods
Shopping at Whole Foods Market stores could get a little cheaper for Bay Area shoppers who already shell out $119 per year for an Amazon Prime membership. Starting Wednesday, Prime members will get an...
View ArticleWhat you should know about moringa, the protein-packed leafy green
Kuli Kuli CEO Lisa Curtis first learned about the benefits of moringa while working as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger. As a vegetarian, Curtis was living on a diet of corn and millet, which left her...
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Amazon video purports to show anti-union training tactics for Whole Foods stores
As Amazon on Thursday opened up a new physical store in New York called Amazon 4-star, which stocks only products rated with four stars or higher on the online retailer’s site, the company was also...
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Whole Foods’ lease forcing Jade Garden to leave Walnut Creek shopping center...
Click HERE if you’re having trouble viewing the gallery on your mobile device. WALNUT CREEK — The owner of Jade Garden says the shopping center where her Chinese restaurant has done business for 31...
View ArticleWalnut Creek shopping center switches course, lets Jade Garden restaurant...
Click HERE if you’re having trouble viewing the gallery on your mobile device. WALNUT CREEK — In the wake of public outcry over a Whole Foods Market lease that threatened to drive Jade Garden out of a...
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Amazon testing its cashierless concept for bigger stores. Is Whole Foods next?
Is it possible that Whole Foods Market shoppers in the Bay Area might soon see cashiers and checkout stands disappear from their local stores? Amazon, which has introduced the concept of checkout-free...
View ArticleInstacart to end delivery from Whole Foods stores
By Ellen Huet | Bloomberg News In 2014, when Instacart Inc. was a younger grocery-delivery startup, Whole Foods was its first major relationship-Instacart’s debut national retail partner and an...
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Whole Foods failed to act on sexual harassment of Bay Area cashier, lawsuit...
A former cashier at a Bay Area outlet of Amazon-owned upscale grocery chain Whole Foods suffered sexual harassment by a male supervisor from the first week of work but the company didn’t act on her...
View ArticleReport: Amazon set to open dozens of grocery stores
By Matt Day | Bloomberg News Amazon.com Inc. plans to open dozens of grocery stores in U.S. cities, The Wall Street Journal reported, a move that would expand the retail and technology giant’s grocery...
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