Quick Take — Whole Foods Market private label products land in Singapore

An initial assortment of almost 300 products will be sold on Amazon platforms in the region, as well as on local grocery shops

The leading organic grocery shop will start with nearly 300 private label products in many categories, adding to the tens of thousands of grocery and everyday essentials from Amazon.sg, Amazon Fresh and local grocery and speciality retailers in the region.

In addition, exclusive brands from Whole Foods Market – acquired by Amazon in 2017- will be available in-store at Little Farms, a natural and organic supermarket in Singapore, which has eight locations across the city-state .

Whole Foods has long been selling its products where it has no shops, via the web: the Italians could have taken the cue to export to the rest of the world by developing e-commerce.

Unfortunately, only the Americans, the Germans – Lidl- and the Chinese – Temu – are doing this with their marketplaces.

Read also : Amazon Uk converts Amazon Fresh to Whole Foods and its platform beats the marketplace

Below the private-label line of Whole Foods sold abroad. Compiled 23 September, updated 24 September 2025

Quick Take — Amazon Uk converts five Amazon Fresh to Whole Foods and its platform beats the market

The others will be closed. Amazon “…said it is strengthening its online grocery business, which it says is growing faster than the rest of its UK operations. Through its main UK website, Amazon Fresh online, Whole Foods and delivery partnerships with UK grocery groups Morrisons, Co-op, Iceland and Gopuff, the company already offers more than two million grocery and household items with fast delivery.

By early 2026, the company plans to double the number of Prime subscribers who can access three or more grocery delivery options, with the goal of making at least one of its grocery partners available to more than 80 per cent of Prime subscribers. Amazon also plans to add perishable groceries to millions of other products on Amazon.co.uk for same-day delivery, a service recently implemented in more than 1,000 US cities and towns .

The company also highlighted the surge in UK demand for essentials, with hundreds of millions of items delivered in 2024 alone, representing a growth of almost 20 per cent year-on-year. In the first quarter of 2025, food and household products grew at almost double the rate of all other product categories and now account for around one in three units sold on Amazon’s UK website…”

E-Commerce: Lidl, in Italy, does what the Italians have not been able to do, i.e. counter Amazon with its own Marketplace

With this initiative, Kaufland aims to become one of the leading e-commerce players in Europe, offering a viable alternative to the large global platforms and helping to redefine the balance in continental online trade. The entry into the Italian market, in particular, represents a strategic step to intercept a steadily growing demand and to strengthen the Schwarz Group’s presence in the retail trade, both physical and digital

Quick Take — The future of beauty: can Amazon replicate the Tmall (Alibaba) model?

According to a McKinsey-Business of Fashion study, marketplaces such as Amazon are already the leading online sales channel for beauty products, capturing 28% of sales, twice the share of both corporate websites and specialised retailers such as Sephora, both at 15%.

It would seem that in the West Amazon has already won the digital race in beauty, particularly in the luxury segment. In fact, even in Italy Amazon is already a significant player, and as of this year it has been included in the sector sell-out panel, the results of which are religiously studied by the management of major companies