Amazon purchase disrupts retail

摘要

Amazon's announcement several months ago that it will acquire Whole Foods Market Inc. for approximately $13.7 billion ($42 per share, all in cash) wasn't really the black swan investors and business pundits like to marvel over. By most common terms, a black swan is something unpredictable, inconceivable even, a rare event — a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence that completely changes the face of a particular business and how it trades and interacts with consumers.