Small food makers wonder about Amazon-Whole Foods impact

In this Friday, June 16, 2017, file photo, groceries from Whole Foods Market sit in a cart before being loaded into a car, outside a store in Jackson, Miss. Some small and mid-sized food companies are wondering how Amazon’s planned purchase of Whole Foods might affect them. The unknowns include whether Amazon might change the grocery chain’s food offerings, which now include thousands of products from small and mid-sized businesses. A key question for many companies is whether Whole Foods would place less of an emphasis on buying locally produced and innovative foods in the future.
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