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Amazon and whole foods: follow the strategy (and the money)

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Checking out the recent Amazon acquisition of Whole Foods.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 10
      October 2017
      90 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3144574
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