Indeed, I have yet to see the refrigerated Amazon Whole Foods delivery trucks traveling through my neighborhood like I regularly do with Schwan’s, and I know the drones that I heard so much about a few years ago still aren’t dropping off groceries much less anything else in my area or across most of the country just yet, but the merger is still young and such things do take time. Exactly how is it going with " the most overhyped company in the world's" supposed immediate rise to global grocery store dominance with its recent purchase of niche, high-end specialty grocery store chain Whole Foods? Upon visiting a few of my local grocery store this past weekend nearly two months after the completion of the Amazon Whole Foods merger, the lack of any “Store Closing” signs or any discernable changes in my inability to find a parking spot anywhere even remotely close to the entrance got me to thinking. But with a few months under our belts now since Amazon closed its Whole Foods merger with great media fanfare, it is worthwhile to check in to see how the world has actually changed. The grocery store world was supposedly changing for good with the entry of the online retail giant into the highly competitive bricks-and-mortar grocery business. It was not that long ago that Amazon ( NASDAQ: AMZN) shook the retail world with its acquisition of Whole Foods. Don’t Believe The Hype, Public Enemy, 1988
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