Amazon Is Experimenting at Whole Foods by Selling Mainstream Brands Like Pepsi, Kraft, and Chips Ahoy—and some Will Be Hand-Delivered by Robots

Amazon is experimenting at Whole Foods by selling mainstream brands like Pepsi, Kraft, and Chips Ahoy—and some will be hand-delivered by robots

The Everything Store is looking for a more organic way to sell you junk food. Enter Whole Foods, the grocery chain that built its name on natural ingredients. Having its Berry Chantilly Cake and Little Debbies, too: Amazon, which bought Whole Foods in 2017, doesn’t want to sully the chain’s clean-living reputation, but it also doesn’t want to miss out on Americans spending on groceries. So, it’s experimenting with ways to introduce mass-market b…

The Amazonification of Whole Foods Is Finally Here—Bring On the Doritos

Evanston woman creates snack company with flavors focusing on area food treasures

When Laura Gardner’s previous job laid her off in 2024, she took it as a sign to venture off on her own into entrepreneurship. Now, Gardner’s running Local Style Chips — a self-funded, female-owned kettle chip brand with chip flavors focused on Chicagoland favorites, like Italian beef, deep dish pizza and hot giardiniera. The five flavors of Local Style Chips. Credit: Local Style Chips Although the snack has been around for less than a year, th…

Amazon's influence on Whole Foods

Amazon’s imprint on Whole Foods is becoming unmistakable, eight years after the tech giant bought the natural-foods chain for $13.7 billion. In suburban Philadelphia, a pilot program is using “ShopBots” in a store’s backroom to retrieve items such as Tide Pods and Pepsi ordered through the Amazon app—an attempt to satisfy shoppers seeking mainstream brands

The Amazonification of whole foods is finally here—bring on the Doritos

Amazon is shaking up the natural-foods grocer with robots in the backroom and Pepsi outside the exit in its push for a bigger slice of the supermarket business