"And she said, 'That's insane, '" John Mackey said at a town hall meeting on Friday, after Amazon announced it was buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion.
"It's amusing. I was just ordering something on Amazon", said Nick Yezierski, a hotel manager who was eating breakfast outside the Whole Foods flagship store in Austin, Texas.
The remarks offered a preview into how e-commerce giant Amazon might turn around the sluggish sales of Whole Foods since announcing on Friday it would buy the company for $13.7 billion, including debt.
Aaron Turner, a Los Angeles-based analyst who covers Grubhub for Wedbush Securities, wrote in a note to clients Monday that the tech giant's plans to buy Whole Foods for almost $14 billion set it up for a larger food ordering and delivery play.
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Then, bizarrely, Mackey tells the town hall that he had foreseen the merger with Amazon in a dream a year and a half ago. Amazon Go shops are convenience stores that don't use cashiers or checkout lines, but use a tracking system that of sensors, algorithms, and cameras to determine what a customer has bought.
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What the online retail behemoth is planning with the Whole Foods deal and its 460 brick and mortar locations throughout the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom is anyone's guess, but as Business Insider points out, this may be a pivotal step in the future of grocery shopping. But Whole Foods stock closed above $42 on Friday, and it rose again Monday to top $43.
For now, Whole Foods seems happy with the deal. "They're at the forefront of technology", he said of Amazon, noting, "I think we're gonna get a lot of those innovations in our stores".
With Amazon is on its way to acquiring Whole Foods, one analyst thinks Grubhub could be its next target. "This is not - this is not a Tinder relationship". Amazon, which has tried for roughly a decade to crack the code on delivering fresh food, wants to change that.
Having spent her life trying to transition the food system back to a local, organic focus, Waters sees Amazon's pending purchase of Whole Foods as a huge opportunity.
Spinning off a separate brand and using Amazon's technology and customer data, while leveraging Whole Foods' logistics infrastructure and knowledge of the grocery industry could help keep the grocer's flagship brand pure with its core customers while letting Amazon capitalize on its grocery ambitions.
Those of us in the industry have known for a while that Whole Foods has been pressured to sell by its activist investor Jana Partners and mutual-fund manager Neuberger Berman, and rumors of potential deals with everyone from Kroger to Albertsons have been bandied about.
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