[weezin]

Weird they would acquire a company similar to what they are already doing with Amazon Care.

[saos]

Swallow the competition. And take market share.

Amazon are a true conglomerate

[FollowingTheDao]

Let me fix that for you:

Amazon is a true monopoly

[capitalsigma]

Yes, Amazon, the infamous healthcare monopoly

[jpm_sd]

This type of move is often a signal that the internal effort is not going well, so upper management has decided to acqui-hire a team who (supposedly) knows how to do it properly.

[b112]

And then in proper fashion, put the acquired under management of the in house team, so the acquired can be told how they are doing it wrong.

[__derek__]

Amazon also acquired Whole Foods while expanding Amazon Fresh. It's easier to acquire a bunch of existing locations and customers than to bootstrap them.