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Scott Galloway correctly predicted Amazon would buy Whole Foods - here's who he thinks Amazon should acquire next

Oct 12, 2017, 20:08 IST

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Amazon purchased Whole Foods a little less than four months ago. Whole Foods products are already appearing on Amazon, and Alexa devices have made it to the shelves of Whole Foods.

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With this just the latest in a long list of companies Amazon has acquired, we were wondering who would be next. To answer that question we brought in Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business and the author of the new book, "The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google." The following is a transcript of the video.

Scott Galloway: Next acquisition for Amazon would be Nordstrom. I think the most logical, or strategically rational, acquisition for Amazon would be Nordstrom.

Amazon now has a license to get into the wealthiest refrigerators in the nation. And they are targeting the wealthy with their acquisition of Whole Foods, but they still don't have license or permission to get into our closets because the aspirational beauty and fashion brands don't want to distribute through Amazon; however, buying Nordstrom would get them those relationships overnight.

Nordstrom is an exceptionally well-run company. They're in Seattle. This thing just fits kind of hand-and-glove; however, there's an X factor here. And the X factor is that Nordstrom is family controlled, meaning the decisions are made around the Thanksgiving dinner table as opposed to its shareholder meeting. So we'll see.

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But likely the acquisitions that'll take place will be little unknown companies that help fill out, or fill in, some holes in their fulfillment network. But you can also see the company going after some niche cable networks, maybe an AMC or a Scripps, as they realize original content creates intensity across those 60% of US households that are now Prime members by going in and picking up some cable broadcast companies.

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