Amazon has taken a step into the grocery industry. Purchasing Whole Foods at $13.7 billion, Amazon extends its reach into yet another market. Concerns are rising that Amazon is becoming too big and that its purchase of Whole Foods will impact the grocery business.
Today we are talking about the effects of Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods on the grocery industry.
Guests:
- Shashi Matta, faculty director of the Full Time MBA and the Working Professional MBA programs, clinical associate professor of Marketing, Fisher College of Business
- JD Malone, food & agriculture reporter, The Columbus Dispatch
- Phil Lempert, grocery and retail industry analyst, founder of SupermarketGuru.com