Amazon Bought Whole Foods Because It Eats Data
To understand why Amazon bought Whole Foods, you need only look at how Bezos boxed out Walmart.
The century-long interplay between technology and retail suggests Walmart is screwed. Its efforts to morph into an online retailer by buying Bonobos and Jet.com will end up making the company seem like Michael Jordan playing baseball—what made it great at one thing doesn’t translate to another.
At the same time, Amazon is marching through the retail sector with the ruthlessness of General Sherman taking out Georgia, remaking shopping in its image. When the company said it will buy Whole Foods, we could imagine the combination resulting in futuristic drone-delivered , even though Amazon has said almost nothing about what it will do
