Whole Foods

Whole Foods has operated in the average of 65,000 square feet stores that offers plenty of accommodations that includes mini restaurants, raw food and juice bars, a wide selection of cheese including 1800 wine bottles to choose from, more than 800 walk in beer cooler, a meat department with smoker and everything else a customer can think of. Every store has different accommodations that best suit the location geographically. Whole Foods alternative to massive square footage and departments around the stores has been its operation of the acquisition of a much smaller scale store Wild Oats. Whole Foods preferred it’s large over the top operation rather than instituted smaller operations that need to be dealt with because of Wild Oats stores acquisition and various others.   Wal-Mart has operated in smaller stores that offer mostly groceries and basic essential. Since larger upscale stores have to adapt to its environment to survive, Whole Foods needs to successfully adapt without reconstructing its stores policy. Whole Foods smaller store operation needs to be dealt with in a sense that it still offers the most organic and healthy foods in accordance to its smaller square foot stores. In accordance to smaller stores, fewer employees are needed because of less traffic flow. Whole Foods has to also cut back on offering accommodations such as operating just as a get in get out organic grocery store without restaurants, huge selections of alcohol and varieties of everything else. The smaller operation alternative could work out in Whole Foods flavor by cutting down on expensive cost of labor and space but still offering more than necessary for the customer. So alternatives to only operating new stores in upscale areas/suburbs of just major metropolitan areas, it could operate more effectively in areas where organic foods isn’t anywhere to be near its geographic location.
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