Whole Foods Looks to Grow by Adding Wild Oats
The Whole Foods supermarket chain says it will buy Wild Oats, its smaller competitor. The buyout would allow the new company to better compete with traditional grocery stores as they increase the amount of organic and health foods on their shelves, Whole Foods says.
Melissa Block talks with Jenny McTaggart, senior editor at the trade magazine Progressive Grocer, about what the merger would mean for the grocery industry.
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