Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B

Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by emodendroket on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:21AM (#14569224)

I don't think you can really equate "activist investors" with workaday people with IRAs.

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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by refurb on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:06AM (#14569628)

Take a look at how much of a company's stock is owned by institutional investors. A lot of that money comes from people's pensions, 401Ks, IRAs, etc.

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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by emodendroket on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:17AM (#14569724)

I'm not disputing that; what I am disputing is that such investors are basically the same as Carl Icahn.

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