Whole Foods made 23 acquisitions with only 1 failure; the failure (Attman, a mail-order supplement company) occurred because it was outside Whole Foods' core retail expertise and the market didn't adopt the internet as expected.

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Speaker

John Mackey

Evidence Quote

“I did 23... you only had one one that went bad... it was a mail order supplement company”

Source

John Mackey: What I Got Right and Wrong Building Whole Foods— The Knowledge Project Podcast
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:11:15 AM

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