The WFM purchase is to build out Amazon Fresh, which has been thus far been "The Failing Amazon Fresh".
Amazon knows that perishables are the one thing they just can't touch right now because of obvious reasons. This purchase gives them the ability to enter this market and get their Amazon Fresh shit out of the gutter.
Amazon has already stated they want to build out automated stores. (Which are full of technical glitches at the moment.) If you’re still worried about them building out their physical store foot-print, newsflash: their Amazon bookstores are inferior to your everyday Barnes and Noble.
It is a massive over-reaction that all of retail has sold off on this news.
Submitted June 24, 2017 at 07:27AM by Awwtist http://ift.tt/2tFEiW9
