Amazon tries to get into customer fridges with $18b Whole Foods deal

Spencer Soper, Emily Biuso and Nick Turner

Updated Jun 18, 2017 – 8.31pm, first published at 10.34am

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For Amazon.com, the blockbuster $USUS13.7 ($18 billion) billion deal to buy Whole Foods Market is a giant step toward dominating every part of a consumer's shopping experience.

Amazon is already in your mailbox, with all of the items you're purchasing with your Prime membership; your living room, with its Echo device and Prime television services; your library, with its Kindle; and your closet, with Zappos. Now it wants to fill your fridge.

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