Shira Ovide, Columnist

Quantifying the Amazon Effect at Whole Foods

The grocery chain posted its fastest rate of sales growth in two years.
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We have a better sense now of the Amazon effect on Whole Foods. Hint: It's pretty big.

Whole Foods on Friday released its final financial report, which included about one month under new owner Amazon.com Inc. And it put some numbers to the guesswork about how much the attention from Amazon's takeover has helped the grocery chain.