Mark Cuban, the billionaire investor and TV personality, used Twitter on Friday to weigh in on Amazon's announcement that it would acquire Whole Foods.
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MARK CUBAN: Here's 'the Amazon question' after the online retail giant spends $13.7 billion on Whole Foods
"The Amazon question," Cuban tweeted. "Can they get your groceries to you faster than you can get to the store to shop in an Uber/lyft world?"
Mark Cuban
Cuban said one question would determine whether the purchase by the online retail giant was a smart one.
"The Amazon question," Cuban tweeted. "Can they get your groceries to you faster than you can get to the store to shop in an Uber/lyft world? Yes."
Cuban's argument, though forward-looking, is that it would take less time for Amazon to deliver your groceries from a physical Whole Foods location — by drone, van, or whatever — than for you to take an autonomous car owned by a ride-hailing company to a physical store and back.
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When asked whether faster grocery delivery like he was envisioning would add value to the world, the "Shark Tank" host replied: "What is more valuable than your time?"
Here are the tweets:
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