Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B

Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by RobAley on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:13AM (#14569134)

If I had $20bn to buy it in the first place, or be in the position where I could even raise that kind of capital, I would already be successful (in my mind at least).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by hollerith on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:41AM (#14569415)

OK, but WF stock is held mostly by ordinary people (or by pension funds acting on behalf of ordinary people) and the argument being made above is that there are signs that the reason WF ended up being owned by a company without WF's reputation for good treatment of employees is that selling the company was the only way for WF's management to meet their fiduciary responsibility to those ordinary people who hold WF stock.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by TheCoelacanth on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:12AM (#14569679)

Whole Foods doesn't have one owner. It's a publicly traded company.

[ Parent | on HN ]