Amazon to Buy Whole Foods in $13.4 Billion Deal
By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and NICK WINGFIELD
June 16, 2017
Customers at a Whole Foods Market in Manhattan. Credit John Taggart for The New York Times
Amazon said on Friday that it had agreed to buy the upscale grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.4 billion, as the online retailer looks
to conquer new territory in the supermarket aisle.
For Amazon, the deal marks an ambitious push into the mammoth grocery business, an industry that in the United States accounts
for around $700 to $800 billion in annual sales. Amazon is also amplifying the competition with Walmart, which has been struggling
to play catch-up to the online juggernaut.
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hope I can get whole foods discounts with a prime account haha
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There's a Whole Foods here in Oklahoma City. Not really impressed.
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Never shopped there. Prices too high.