It's Thursday, September 14th.

Welcome to Market Foolry.

I'm Chris El Joni Meant Studio today from Supernova and Rule

Breakers.

Back, second day in a row, Aaron Bush.

Thanks for being here

thank you it must be a record i did

record for you indeed but you know what we're giving the people what they

want more air and bush the people have spoken. We're going to talk home assistants and the

bidding war for Tushiba or at least part of Tushiba's business. We're going to start though

with some earnings from United Natural Foods.

Fourth quarter profits came in higher than expected to stock up 9% this morning.

And United Natural Foods, one of those businesses that people have probably encountered,

even if they don't realize that this is a primary distributor for Pulse Foods.

Yeah, I mean, I think the quarter was interesting and obviously what most people are looking at

is 35% of the company's sales in 2016 was from Whole Foods.

And so how exactly does all this big Whole Foods Amazon

acquisition change what's going on with United Foods? And so far at least on

this quarter which is the first quarter earliest partial quarter that Whole Foods

and Amazon are together. United foods kind of bucked the worries that investors had

put out there. Sales increased about 6%, the gross margin slightly increased,

and that income increased 12%.

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