Why Amazon is buying Whole Foods for $13.4 Billion

Around here (D.C. area) there are Amazon Lockers popping up all over the place. Until a few months ago, it seemed that all of the Lockers were in No. Virginia (and those were in 7-Elevens), but now I have 8 or 10 of them near me in P.G. County; most of them are in grocery stores and one is in front of (not inside) a Target. They also have a standalone “store,” which is basically a Locker with a flesh-and-blood employee on the premises. So Amazon already has a bit of a physical footprint, at least in this area. They don’t really gain much (again, in this area) by moving in with Whole Foods, unless something else is afoot where those stores are concerned. (And speaking of, we just had a WF open near here a month or two ago.)

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