Amazon’s $13.7 billion Whole Foods buy proves the concept of the ‘tech company’ is coming to an end
Business Insider – Retail
On Monday, Amazon's $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods will close, ushering in a new era of cheap avocados for all, and Amazon Prime grocery discounts for some. Now consider this: we just passed the six-year anniversary of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen's famous declaration that "software is eating the world," which ran in the Wall Street Journal on These two things have everything to do with each other. Because software, in the form of Amazon, is about to eat Whole Fo…