{"id":25876,"date":"2017-06-16T09:29:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T13:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?p=25876"},"modified":"2017-06-16T13:56:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:56:49","slug":"amazon-to-buy-whole-foods-market-for-13-7-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?p=25876","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to Buy Whole Foods Market for $13.7 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2t9SSFb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Amazon.com<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a> announced Friday that they will acquire\u00a0Whole Foods Market Inc. in a $13.7 billion deal, marking the biggest transaction ever for the e-commerce giant as it pushes deeper into groceries.\u00a0Amazon will pay $42 a share in cash for the organic-food chain, the companies said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Amazon\u2019s biggest acquisition to date came in 2014, when it agreed to buy video-game service Twitch Interactive Inc. for $970 million in cash. Amazon\u00a0had about $21.5 billion of cash and equivalents at the end of March, the data show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u201cMillions of people love Whole Foods Market because they offer the best natural and organic foods, and they make it fun to eat healthy,\u201d Amazon CEO\u00a0Jeff Bezos said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Whole Foods Market will continue to operate stores under the Whole Foods Market brand and source from trusted vendors and partners around the world. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Amazon.com announced Friday that they will acquire\u00a0Whole Foods Market Inc. in a $13.7 billion deal, marking the biggest transaction ever <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?p=25876\" title=\"Amazon to Buy Whole Foods Market for $13.7 Billion\">&#8230;.. Get This Deal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tjb-blog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25917,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25876\/revisions\/25917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}