Whole Foods looking at shuttered Sears and Kmart locations, reports say

Whole Foods Market could take over some vacated spaces left by Sears and Kmart stores, according to reports.

According to YahooFinance, the Austin, Texas-based grocery store chain, now owned by Amazon.com Inc. (Amazon acquired Whole Foods in 2017 for $13.7 billion), is looking at moving into empty commercial real estate spaces that were once occupied by Sears and Kmart stores.

There are now hundreds of Sears and Kmart stores that have closed across the country in the wake of the Hoffman Estates,…