I recently noticed that my Amazon past orders includes a record of every Whole Foods purchase, including each individual item, and the date, and store location.

I never use any kind of loyalty cards, and never tried to use an Amazon account somehow to pay at Whole Foods (like didn't they have some kind of biometric palm reader experiment recently? anyway nothing like that, I would hate that and never use it even if my store had it) just my regular local small credit union debit card which happens to be the same card I use in Amazon.

Obviously we all know that Amazon owns Whole Foods so the mechanics of how this happens is no mystery or suprise. This is not a "How could this possibly happen?"

It just strikes me as a graphical surfacing of something that was always there just not so advertised.

I just wish to say that this is wrong. No one should be ok with this.

These are two unrelated activities.

Now consider what other wide ranging businesses Amazone is or has gotten in to. They could be your pharmacy, your insurance that pays or declines to pay that pharmacy, your debit card that pays for whatever the insurance didn't, and everything else you buy anywhere, with and maybe even that receives all your income too if you happen to work for Amazon.

The technical detail that all these different entities are owned by a parent entity should not be enough to just say "oh well it's fine then".