while walmart will get the benefit of being the first to order history with google, brian elliott tells me there is nothing preventing other retailers from doing the same, even, he says, if amazon wanted to be an order option on google home. for nightly business report, i'm courtney reagan. >> amazon's proposed takeover of whole foods took another step forward. shareholders approved the near $14 billion deal. regulators also cleared the merger saying it does not need further anti-trust scrutiny. both hope to close the deal before the end of the year. the takeover is the biggest retail merger so far this year, and it would be the third largest since 1995. >>> amazon is one of the reason why the world's biggest ad agency is cutting its revenue forecast. wpco says some of its clients, mainly packaged good companies, are coming under pressure from companies like amazon. many packaged companies have big budgets which are starting to cut. >> i think there are three forces at work here. first is digital disruption which is not a threat to the industry. it's an opportunity more than a threat. t

while walmart will get the benefit of being the first to order history with google, brian elliott tells me there is nothing preventing other retailers from doing the same, even, he says, if amazon wanted to be an order option on google home courtney reagan, cnbc. >>> in other news, general electric and abb reportedly resumed talks over an industrial solutions deal according to reuters, ge is exploring the possibility of selling the unit for over $2 billion, we starting negotiates that ended last month over price agreements this as the new ceo carries out a review of the company too's portfolio. >>> fiat shares have hit a high over speculation that great wall motors could be looking to acquire part of the firm fiat could be looking to spin off its maserati and alpha romeo brands. >>> and lufthansa confirms it wants to take over air berlin. the german flagship carrier is interested in air berlin's niki unit as well as other parts of the insolvent airline. annette is live from frankfurt it seems like lufthansa will be the big winner this chase for the assets we know ryanair is also a jet t

first, however, to link accounts for past purchasing history but google express general manager brian elliottls me there's nothing exclusive about the walmart partnership and the account linking saying google is open to any partner to make shopping easier, even amazon walmart is the first to link the accounts carl >> can i just ask you one question, courtney as an amazon prime user, is there any edge in shifting over to the google walmart system do you get anything extra or different? is it lower prices what's the opportunity there >> i mean, not that walmart has disclosed at this point, no. right now, if you use amazon's alexa, you can't ordser on walmart. from the home assistant, you can order in some places including walmart. but next year they willed a in some of the options that are already available for online orders and a number of different places like the pickup discount, if it's an item eligible for that, that's not going to be right away right now hundreds of thousands of orders when it launches, but eventually they will add more products so they are kind of putting out the product

first however to link accounts for past purchasing history now google expressed general manager brian elliott me there's nothing exclusive about the walmart partnership. google is open to any partner that makes shopping easier even potentially amazon when i asked him, carl. >> as you're speaking, whole foods shareholders have voted in approval of that amazon deal so we'll keep that in mind. thank you for that sticking with retail lowe's reporting this morning they missed on the top and the bottom line. comps were slightly better than expected up 4-5 but the home improvement retailer gave a full year earnings forecast that was belowestmenteds. the stock down almost 6% walmart moved here to enable voice ordering and linking the history is important the idea is if we can get the home depots and costcos to enable that same feature you start to develop an alternative platform to amazon as you know amazon is not always the lowest price but that plus the ease of ordering through alexa creates such a moat around that business. we need to create an alternate site where the rest of retail can go and cr

when i spoke to brian elliott about this last night, he said there is nothing exclusive about this right, about linking accounts other retailers may do that, but walmart is the first >> and with the largest buying margin in the united states. this seems like the first time you have walmart and google, impressive competitors against amazon this will be an interesting fight to watch >> it will i think it would be interesting if amazon approached google and wanted to do their voice ordering through the platform. >> so order on amazon via my google device? >> let's say you had a google home instead of alexa, you could say google order me batteries on amazon.com >> did that just happen. >> i'm sorry if i sent batteries to every home that has up with of these devices i thought that was an interesting development. it's neat because of the ordering history the example we gave about you specify a product and it knows what product you ordered in the past. >> >> cool >> if the lights, if they did get turned off, can't people that are there just say alexa turn the lights back on? they come back on?

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