Whole Foods: Final Paper Whole Foods Market‚ Inc Jess Tourville Endicott College Managing in the Evolving Workplace TJ Hanratty March 5‚ 2013 From the fairly humble beginning of being a one-store entrepreneur living on the third floor and taking baths in the dishwasher‚ John Mackey has seen his 1978 Safer Way grocery store grow into an $8 billion a year corporation. As of September 2008‚ Whole Foods had 264 stores in the United States‚ six in Canada‚ and five in the United Kingdom. Whole
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1. (a) Whole Foods operates in the organic‚ or natural and specialty foods retail industry. Leading the industry‚ Whole Foods Market is the world ’s most successful natural foods grocery chain. Having recently acquired one of its main competitors‚ Wild Oats Market‚ Whole Foods currently competes with two other large grocery chainsKroger and Trader Joe ’s. The company also acquired Amrion‚ a company specializing in nutraceuticals (natural supplements with pharmaceutical-type benefits)‚ creating
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Leader in Organic Foods Customized facilities. Incentive system for Employees Weaknesses High prices Large store size Opportunities Growth through Achievements Increasing attractiveness of health food industry Brand image through community sponsored events Threats Local grocers increasing organic food options Large store size preventing “in and out” consumers Economy troubles: customers switching to lower cost products Strengths One of Whole Food’s strengths is
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Whole Foods Case Analysis 1. The chief elements of the strategy that Whole Foods Market is pursuing are whole foods‚ whole people‚ and whole planet. The whole foods portion describes the type of product being offered. The products are as close to natural as possible. Whole people describe the type of environment the employees have at Whole Foods Market. The employees are treated fairly‚ passionate‚ and highly motivated. Lastly‚ whole planet refers to the responsibility companies and individuals
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that Whole Foods Market is pursuing ? ANS: After reading the case‚ I think that they are using acquisition as their main element of strategy. As the Exhibit 4 “1992-2007 Major Acquisition by Whole Foods Market” shown‚ they had bought 134 stores in 15 years. Their goal is to open bigger store but at the same time acquiring others stores‚ although the acquisition of Wild Oats didn’t go well since 2007 because the FTC opposed the acquisition on ground that the competition of the organic food market
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