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WF changed their supply chain recently and has been a source of problems as well: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/02/08/empty-whole-food-market-store

• matwood 8y ago
  It's worth noting WF did this before the Amazon purchase. Timing wise people tried to blame it on Amazon, but they really had nothing to do with it.
  • hedora 8y ago
    Yeah, this was a classic pump and dump scam. If the victim weren’t a giant, ruthless megacorp, I’d probably be outraged instead of amused. The context here is that WF used to use their back rooms to hold excess inventory, but transitioned to a just in time delivery model. This had two primary effects: For a few quarters, their numbers looked better than they should, since they were juiced by selling down a bunch of inventory that had been stranded in the supply chain. The second effect hit after the acquisition: The JIT supply chain they setup was an unreliable disaster, so the availability of goods at the stores plummeted after the buffer of backroom stock was depleted.