Media Sightings

June 23, 2017

CBS (VIDEO) Amazon To Acquire Whole Foods In $13.7B Deal

June 16, 2017

WLS ABC 7 (video) Amazon to buy Whole Foods in $13.7 billion deal by Diane Pathieu

June 16, 2017

USA TODAY Amazon is buying Whole Foods in $13.7B deal by Roger Yu, Zlati Meyer and Elizabeth Weise

June 16, 2017

CHICAGO TRIBUNE Amazon rocks grocery industry with $13.7B bid to buy Whole Foods by Greg Trotter and Lauren Zumbach

June 16, 2017

FORTUNE Here’s Who Won and Who Lost in Amazon’s Deal to Buy Whole Foods by Dan Hirschhorn

June 16, 2017

TIME Why Amazon's Whole Foods Purchase Will Make Groceries Cheaper for Everyone by Brad Tuttle

June 15, 2017

TAMPA BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL With cheap wine and bare-bones stores, German discount grocers Aldi and Lidl are coming for Publix shoppers by Ashley Gurbal Kritzer

June 14, 2017

LOS ANGELES TIMES Dying malls offer a chance to build something better — and address how our lives are changing by Steve Lopez

June 14, 2017

THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Why grocery stores in Charlotte – and the rest of the U.S. – are getting super-sized BY KATHERINE PERALTA

June 14, 2017

TEXAS MONTHLY The Shelf Life of John Mackey. Can he survive the Wall Street forces that now want to consume him? by Tom Foster

June 14, 2017

BALTIMORE SUN Lidl gears up for U.S. expansion, eyes Maryland market BY Lorraine Mirabell

June 14, 2017

PASADENA STAR-NEWS Up to 25% of US malls will close by 2022. Here’s why by Kevin Smith

June 14, 2017

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Can Movebutter spread across US amid heated grocery competition? By Carolyn Said

June 14, 2017

NACS TALKING SHOP WITH THE SUPERMARKET GURU (podcast)

June 14, 2017

FOOD DIVE This is the Wild West': Inside Peapod's ambitious plan to defeat its online grocery rivals by Christopher Doering

June 02, 2017

THE NEWS & OBSERVER Wegmans, Sprouts, Lidl: New Triangle grocery stores could mean war by David Ranii

June 02, 2017

FORBES Understanding Blue Apron's IPO & The Meal Kit Phenomenon's Future by Phil Lempert

June 01, 2017

PROGRESSIVE GROCER Phil Lempert to Moderate Buyer Panel at Fancy Food Show Changing specialty food landscape on the menu of topics

June 01, 2017

FORBES McDonald's Delivery Move Won't Bring New Customers But Could Bring Profit

May 31, 2017

CANDY INDUSTRY Passing judgment By Bernie Pacyniak

May 29, 2017

TAKE OUT WITH ASHLEY & ROBYN (podcast) Episode 76 with Phil

May 28, 2017

MARKETPLACE General Mills sugary promotion comes as cereal is losing its charms by Mitchell Hartman

May 26, 2017

QUARTZ The plant-based meatless burger is coming to the meat aisles of its first mainstream US grocery chain by Chase Purdy

May 25, 2017

THE MADERA TRIBUNE Supermaket guru to lead Fresno Food Expo keynote