That was not OTS. OTS did not exist before Bezos.
Disclosure: No relationship with WF or any other grocer; have not been in WF in over 2 years; and generally idgaf except Bezos -- and this is said constructively, even lovingly, under Amazon 'Leadership Principles' Rules 4,6,12,13 -- is a piece of living shit...
That was not OTS. OTS did not exist before Bezos.
Sorry, but it did exist before Bezos.
From Salon.com
We all blamed Amazon, that purveyor of the lowest common denominator run by the world’s first hundred billionaire, Jeff Bezos. As it turns out, we were only partly correct. An investigation by Business Insider found that a new supply-and-inventory management system called OTS (order-to-shelf) had been implemented by the grocer prior to the Amazon purchase.
From BusinessInsider.com
Many customers are blaming Amazon, which bought Whole Foods in August for $13.7 billion. Analysts have speculated that the shortages could be due to a spike in shopper traffic in the wake of the acquisition.
But Whole Foods employees say the problems began before the acquisition. They blame the shortages on a buying system called order-to-shelf that Whole Foods implemented across its stores early last year.
Google it for yourself.