Amazon to buy upmarket grocer Whole Foods for $13.7 billion

[June 16, 2017]  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc <AMZN.O> said it would buy Whole Foods Market Inc <WFM.O> in a deal valued at about $13.7 billion, including debt.
 

The $42 per share offer represents a premium of 27 percent to the upmarket grocery chain's Thursday close.

(Reporting by Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)

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