Whole Foods/Wild Oats Merger: - The Arthur Page Society

of the more than 130 people hired for the store were put into question. Whole Foods noted,
though, that it would still look long‐term to carry out the bulk of its remodeling and
expansion plans. These plans called for a $45 million investment. Its growth strategy is to
expand through a combination of new store openings and acquisitions of existing stores. It
noted in the months following August 2008, however, that it would still look long‐term to
carry out the bulk of its remodeling and expansion plans. 102 A spokesman from the Whole
Foods Rocky Mountain Region said that the goal of the Whole Foods/Wild Oats merger was
always to make the stores better and that the goal is still the same. 103
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