Mergers and acquisitions

Comments

• Tre

  2017-06-16 13:58:01 edited 2017-06-16 13:59:49

  
  

  A big one to start: http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/16/investing/amazon-buying-whole-foods/index.html
  
  I'm of two minds on it. I think Amazon is smart enough to keep the experience for customers consistent with how it is now, but (as previously mentioned) I'm really nervous about the ideas the company has experimented with regarding its take on the grocery store. We'll have to see what happens, I guess.
• Imipolex G

  2017-06-16 15:25:36

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  I knew who-hey wait
  
• lee4hmz

  2017-06-16 16:21:27

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  I was fascinated by these back in the early 1980s, and it was a good time to be interested because it was the era of "We're Beatrice".
• lee4hmz

  2017-06-16 16:22:02

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  You know, just before KKR bought it and started cutting it up for scrap.
• lee4hmz

  2017-06-16 16:24:04

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  Also, Kraft was briefly known as "Kraftco" in the early 1970s, which always weirded me out.
• lee4hmz

  2017-06-16 16:24:59 edited 2017-06-16 16:25:26

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  Also also: Apparently "Dart Industries" had nothing to do with Dart Drug (or Dart plastic cups, for that matter), but they were connected to Walgreens.
• lee4hmz

  2017-06-16 16:26:35

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  Part of all this is because I had a World Almanac, and back then they had a "who owns what" section that was extracted directly from the Directory of Corporate Affiliations (aka "The Big Book of M&A History").
• Anonus

  2017-06-16 23:28:07 edited 2017-06-16 23:28:20

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Tre said:

  A big one to start: http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/16/investing/amazon-buying-whole-foods/index.html
  
  I'm of two minds on it. I think Amazon is smart enough to keep the experience for customers consistent with how it is now, but (as previously mentioned) I'm really nervous about the ideas the company has experimented with regarding its take on the grocery store. We'll have to see what happens, I guess.

  I'm not all that enthusiastic about this deal

  
  

  For one thing, it's Amazon's first significant foray into brick-and-mortar retailing, and for another, they're going straight for an affluent customer base

  
  

  Not mainstream shoppers

  
  

  It feels like Amazon doesn't care about Joe and Jane Sixpack - though I've seen fears that Amazon will use Whole Foods as a guinea pig for labor-unfriendly ideas and the shitty working conditions of Amazon warehouses will make their way to the Whole Foods locations
• Princess Alice

  2017-06-16 23:40:29

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Those are legitimate concerns, I think. I admit I'm kind of interested to see where this goes, but it does strike me as...a weird idea?
• Klinotaxis

  2017-06-16 23:45:52

  kill living beings
  

  yeah i don't think anyone really gets why this.

  Anonus said:

  Tre said:

  A big one to start: http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/16/investing/amazon-buying-whole-foods/index.html
  
  I'm of two minds on it. I think Amazon is smart enough to keep the experience for customers consistent with how it is now, but (as previously mentioned) I'm really nervous about the ideas the company has experimented with regarding its take on the grocery store. We'll have to see what happens, I guess.

  I'm not all that enthusiastic about this deal

  
  

  For one thing, it's Amazon's first significant foray into brick-and-mortar retailing

  burn
• Odradek

  2017-06-17 00:22:18

  My dreams exceed my real life