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United Natural Foods to buy Supervalu for $2.9 billion 

Ariana Linquist | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Supervalu Inc. logo is displayed at a distribution center in Hopkins, Minnesota. Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods has spurred its first big deal among the grocery distributors. With United Natural Foods’ $2.9 billion acquisition of Supervalu, announced Thursday, UNFI lessens its reliance …

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Tammy Baldwin, Debbie Stabenow, Tina Smith have big Senate election leads

Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call Group | Getty Images Senate Agriculture Committee ranking member Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., prepares for a CQ podcast with Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., in Hart Building on July 12, 2018. Michigan: Sen. Debbie Stabenow tries to hold her seat in another state the president won …

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AWS earnings Q2 2018

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services. Amazon on Thursday said that its cloud business grew nearly 48.9 percent in the second quarter, coming in above analysts’ expectations. The growth keeps Amazon’s cloud solidly ahead of its closest rivals, Microsoft and Google, …

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