Amazon Whole Food Research Paper

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Amazon Whole Food, it is a topic that is related to my personal every day decision, when I need to buy groceries. First of all, if I’m looking to buy a good product at a lower price, Amazon Whole foods is my first priority due to their recently change in the food market business. Recently, Amazon the big internet firm, bought Whole foods for 13,7 billion dollars. The internet company Amazon, enter into a new type of business and implementing some changes in the food industry, but maintaining the same concept, serving organic items at a more accessible price. "Everybody should be able to eat Whole Foods Market quality -- we will lower prices without compromising Whole Foods Market's long-held commitment to the highest standards," (Wattles, 2017).

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