Prof. Davis: Whole Foods Sale to Amazon a 'Dramatic' Resolution
June 20, 2017
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Writing in Slate, Joshua Clark Davis, assistant professor in the University of Baltimore's Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies, says the recently announced sale of Whole Foods to Amazon is "a dramatic denouement for a company that is deeply rooted in the hippie counterculture of the 1960s and '70s."
"Since its founding, Whole Foods has made its name bucking corporate conventional wisdom—even as it has come to epitomize the massive, often mercenary contradictions of Big Organic," Davis writes "The company sold organic foods long before any major supermarket chain thought it was worthwhile, and it's thrived in part by defying the grocery industry's insistence on centralized distribution and standardization.
"Now the organic supermarket pioneer will be owned by one of the most brutally efficient and standardized retailers in the world, a company with a relentless focus on selling things cheaper and faster."
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