Amazon to purchase Whole Foods for 13.7 billion

[terry78]

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-buying-acquiring-whole-foods-for-42-a-share-2017-6


Well, if you ever had a hankering for non-gmo kale and wanted it next day via drone....your prayers have been answered.

 

[chaseter]

Preparing for the eventual, single corporation.

What happened to monopoly laws?

 

[Pink Ranger]

What happened to monopoly laws?

Put on the tracks of the Reading Railroad and crushed.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

If I can't have that stupid hippie crap delivered to me within the hour than this means nothing to me.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Preparing for the eventual, single corporation.

What happened to monopoly laws?

Jeez... Four decades of folk screaming about the free market is gonna have an effect.

 

[Webfoot Hero]

Preparing for the eventual, single corporation.

What happened to monopoly laws?

Not sure you could consider this a monopoly because Amazon buying Whole Foods isn't exactly them cornering the grocery market since you still have Kroger, Wal-Mart, Target, Costco and many others in the marketplace. It's more like Amazon adding more capabilities in a market that they're already in.

 

[tzarinna]

I hope he drops those prices.

 

[Lighthouse]

My favorite tweet I saw on this.

Jeff Bezos: "Alexa, buy something from Whole Foods."
Alexa: "Buying Whole Foods."
Bezos: "****."

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

All I want to know is... Why hasn't Amazon asked Gal Gadot to be a spokeswoman for them in commercials? THESE THINGS WRITE THEMSELVES!!

 

[Prison Mike]

My favorite tweet I saw on this.

Jeff Bezos: "Alexa, buy something from Whole Foods."
Alexa: "Buying Whole Foods."
Bezos: "****."

Hahaha

 

[BatOnTheWing]

This is one of my favorite
stores to shop at, even if it's not regularly
that I go.

 

[terry78]

If you eat stuff from Whole Foods you're guaranteed to go regularly.

 

[Immortalfire]

I've never been to or even seen a Whole Foods in my life

 

[chaseter]

Not sure you could consider this a monopoly because Amazon buying Whole Foods isn't exactly them cornering the grocery market since you still have Kroger, Wal-Mart, Target, Costco and many others in the marketplace. It's more like Amazon adding more capabilities in a market that they're already in.

It's getting there. I don't think any company should be worth $200b. Corporations have killed the American Dream and killed the middle class. I'm all for free markets but with reasonable limits. Amazon, Disney, Walmart...Disnamamart is coming.

 

[terry78]

I've never been to or even seen a Whole Foods in my life

That explains it all, Fire.

 

[Immortalfire]

I'm not as hip as I thought