Amazon bought Whole Foods five years ago for $13.7 billion. Here's what's changed at the high-end grocer.
to earn a spot on the shelves of local stores, and certified training programs to turn hundreds of Whole Foods workers into accredited cheesemongers and butchers. While some of the hot food bars, free samples and specialty chef counters went away duringAs it scales up, Whole Foods insists it's committed to keeping products local and clean.
Customers can now enroll their palm print with Amazon One to pay without a card or phone. A device scans your palm, triggering a charge to your Amazon account. It's available at more than 20 Whole Foods locations, with 65 more stores in California coming onboard soon."When you start using biometrics for payment, people, rightly so, are concerned about that and how those biometrics are being used," Goldberg said.
Amazon wouldn't give CNBC an official tour, so we tested the Washington store on our own. Hundreds of cameras watched our every move. An associate said almost everything was being weighed by hidden scales that can identify the moment something as light as a bag of potato chips leaves the shelf.
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