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Whole Foods Price Cuts Send Shares Of Kroger And Sprouts Sliding

Amazon.com Inc.’s price cuts at Whole Foods, a key part of its strategy for the upscale grocer, are rocking its supermarket rivals. Shares of Krog...

Amazon's Grocery Grab Squeezes Debt-Laden Supermarket Chains

Just over a month after Amazon ate Whole Foods, the shakeout in the American grocery aisle keeps getting uglier. The latest sign of trouble: private-equ...

Costco Falls On Concerns Over Membership Renewals, Margins

Costco’s better-than-projected results still weren’t enough to please investors, who instead zeroed in on a drop in membership renewal rates an...

Amazon's Whole Foods Lures New Shoppers From Wal-Mart, Sprouts

Amazon’s takeover of Whole Foods Markets has shaken the grocery business. Walmart Stores, Trader Joe’s and Sprouts Farmers Market may be hurtin...

Amazon Can't Just Preach To The Whole Foods Choir: Gadfly

Amazon.com Inc. is wasting no time in its efforts to turn itself into a grocery heavyweight. On the day its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market...

Fear Of Whole Foods Disruption Seen As Real Estate Opportunity

Patient real estate investors stand to gain from the fears of disruption such as the one that rattled the grocery industry after Amazon’s takeover of...

Amazon's Whole Foods Price Cuts Brought 25% Jump In Shoppers

Amazon’s splashy takeover of Whole Foods, complete with deep price cuts, did more than bring a surge of publicity to the chain: it boosted custo...

Target Discounting Plan Ends Up Cutting Its Stock Price As Well

Target's announcement that it was cutting prices on thousands of products led to one unintended discount: a nearly 5% stock drop. The retail chain said...