NEW YORK (AP) — Whole Foods CEO John Mackey says the deal to be acquired by Amazon was the result of a “whirlwind courtship.”

Mackey spoke at a town hall with Whole Foods employees after the deal was announced late last week.

He said mutual friends set the companies up on a “blind date” in Seattle about six weeks ago, and executives immediately hit it off.

Whole Foods has been pressured to sell as sales have declined.

The company recently opened a store on Lakeway Drive in Bellingham.

 

 

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