Amazon, the e-commerce heavyweight, unveiled plans on Friday to buy the up-market grocer Whole Foods in a $13.7bn deal. Amazon said it will pay $42 a share for Texas-based Whole Foods in an all-cash deal that includes the group’s debt. The pact significantly ramps-up Amazon’s bid to disrupt th
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