Shift to e-commerce is saving time, creating jobs

By Washington Examiner Staff

Published July 10, 2017 4:01am ET

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Shift to e-commerce is saving time, creating jobs — The shift to e-commerce over the past nine years has saved American households roughly 64 million hours per week in reduced shopping time, the equivalent of 1.6 million full-time jobs. | martin-dm

Michael Mandel for the Progressive Policy Institute: It strikes me that under ordinary antitrust logic, Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods would ring no alarm bells.

Despite the name recognition of Whole Foods, the company’s $16 billion in sales last year pales next to Kroger’s $115 billion in sales or Albertson’s roughly $60 billion in sales. If anything, the purchase would increase competition in the grocery business.

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