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June 20, 2017

Amazon-Whole Foods deal was ‘truly love at first sight'

  • Whole Foods' CEO said mutual friends set up a “blind date” in Seattle six weeks ago, and the executives immediately hit it off.
    • By CANDICE CHOI
    AP Food Industry Writer

    NEW YORK — Whole Foods CEO John Mackey says the deal to be acquired by Amazon was the result of a “whirlwind courtship.”

    Mackey made the remarks during a town hall with Whole Foods employees after the $13.7 billion deal was announced late last week, according to a transcript of the talk filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mackey said mutual friends set the companies up on a “blind date” in Seattle a little over six weeks ago, and that executives immediately hit it off and ended up speaking for more than two hours.


     
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