Jon Springer | Jun 16, 2017 Amazon said Friday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion in cash in a deal that connects the leading internet retailer with the innovative but struggling natural foods pioneer. The deal will pay shareholders $42 per share of Whole Foods — a … Continued

Boulder-based natural foods grocer Lucky’s Market plans to open a store next year in Wheat Ridge — its fourth Colorado location — breathing life into a long-vacant 14-acre car lot. The grocer is the first business to sign a contract with the redevelopment project The Corners at Wheat Ridge, which aims to open phase one in the spring … Continued

This is not your mother’s Tom Thumb. The grocery store held its grand opening Wednesday inside the Left Bank development on West Seventh Street. It’s Tom Thumb’s first “urban store” in Fort Worth, featuring a wine bar, expanded organic section and patio among other features. The 53,000-square-foot store also offers made-to-order items like pizza (with … Continued

  AUSTIN, Texas (April 17, 2017) – 365 by Whole Foods Market’s first Texas location will open at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, April 26, in Cedar Park, following a bread-breaking ceremony with company officials and the community. Opening day will feature live music by Austin favorite Shinyribs and five percent of the day’s net sales will benefit … Continued

BOULDER, Colo., March 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — The 37th annual Natural Products Expo West & Engredea, the world’s largest natural, organic and healthy products event, experienced another record-setting year playing host to more than 80,000 attendees including industry pioneers and a new generation of innovators shaping the future of healthy products. The show, produced by … Continued

Some 33,000 industry professionals and tastemakers poured into San Francisco this week for the annual Winter Fancy Food Show, the largest trade show devoted to specialty foods and beverages on the West Coast. For anyone who’s braved the crowds at the Consumer Electronics Show, the rough equivalent for the technology industry, you can probably imagine the … Continued

The Denver Post By ALICIA WALLACE | awallace@denverpost.com and EMILIE RUSCH | erusch@denverpost.com PUBLISHED: June 28, 2016 at 9:06 am | UPDATED: November 11, 2016 at 3:41 pm Whole Foods Market is moving its Rocky Mountain regional headquarters to the Mile High City, and the train to the plane was a big selling point. By early next … Continued

Whole Foods Markets opened its 35th Rocky Mountain Region store in El Paso, Texas this week, with about 200 people waiting in line before it opened Wednesday. “We have this underlying impression that this store is going to be much better than what the company initially thought it would do” because the community has welcomed us … Continued