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 Brian Miller Real Estate Editor |
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June 29, 2017
On the Block: Despite the turmoil, Seattle retail is doing fine
It was a head scratcher for some people when Amazon announced its $13.7 billion purchase of troubled Whole Foods.
Yet the acquisition makes sense on some level, as analysts have observed, since it allows the Great Disruptor to continue experimenting with brick-and-mortar retail. Those baby steps began with its bookstore in University Village, and have continued with Amazon Go grocery stores — now in beta in South Lake Union and Ballard.
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