Whole Foods marketing officer Jason Buechel spoke at the CONCORDIA annual summit in 2023.
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Amazon The company has hired WHOLE FOODS CEO Jason Buechel to supervise the grocery business of its grocery store Announce on Monday.
The company’s global retail industry leader Doug Herrington wrote in a memorandum that the employees posted on the Amazon website, Buechel will “bear the responsibility of leading the global grocery store” ” At the same time, continue to lead the whole food. Amazon get High -end groceries were sold at a price of $ 13.7 billion in 2017.
“Jason) said,” Jason was the CEO, so that our ability enabled customers to be more affordable and allowed to use customers, which helped WFM to achieve record sales growth and expand it. By more than 535 locations “.
After the co -founder John Mackey retired from the company, Buechel became the chief executive of the whole food company in 2022. Buechel will expand the role in the leadership of Amazon’s grocery store business, and then replace Tony Hoggett (Tony Hoggett) Leave Amazon In October last year, I joined Wondery. This is a food for startups led by continuous entrepreneur Marc Lore.
Buechel will not only supervise the entire food, but also supervise Amazon’s larger grocery business, including its fresh supermarkets, Go Bashless Boarsier Bestores and online grocery services.
Amazon It has been determined for a long time Consolidate yourself as a shop’s grocery destination. Since getting the whole food Already launched your own chain Fresh supermarkets have taken the steps to unify their online and physical grocery stores, and at the same time attract more extensive consumers.
Heridon said that the momentum of Amazon’s grocery business is “very energetic.”
Hinton wrote in a memorandum: “Since the establishment of a single WW grocery store organization in 2022, we have made significant progress in the vision, making the shopping shops simple, faster, and more affordable.” We have taken steps to integrate our huge grocery stores in the wider logistics network, and create a more seamless experience for customers (especially members of Prime).
In recent years, the company has further adjusted the grocery store Close some fresh and Go stores As part of JASSY’s widespread reduction of cost work. Last April, Amazon Say it will start to delete It comes from the expensive and exquisite income checkout system of fresh American stores. Focus on sales technologyKnown as a third -party retailer who goes out.
Since its acquisition in 2017, Amazon has also closer its freshness and full food grocery stores. company Driving began in October last year One of the entire food locations in the outskirts of Philadelphia, it has an automated warehouse in the store, allowing Amazon shoppers to buy goods from brands that are usually inventory of organic food grocery stores.
