date:May 09, 2013
may also seek to acquire smaller stores, as it did when it purchased six Johnnies Foodmaster locations in the Boston area last year. It reopened the first one, in Brookline, Mass., under the Whole Foods banner a month ago at 16,000 square feet, the smallest Whole Foods in the U.S. and its off to a good start and doing better than expected, Lannon said, and were bullish on replicating that strategy.
According to Mackey, We expect a sea change in the retail food industry, with smaller independ