In Brief
[naviga:h3]Westinghouse remains supplier[/naviga:h3]
Westinghouse is continuing its decades-long partnership with a PSEG, a major supplier of New Jersey’s nuclear energy.
The Cranberry-based company signed a contract with PSEG to continue providing fuel assemblies for the two units at its Salem Nuclear Generating Station in New Jersey.
“Westinghouse has been the single-source fuel provider for PSEG’s Salem plant since its start of operations more than 40 years ago,” said David Howell, president of the Americas Region and chief growth officer at Westinghouse. “This continued partnership is recognition of our reliable fuel performance and confirmation of the important trust PSEG has in Westinghouse.”
[naviga:h3]Amazon, Whole Foods deal advances[/naviga:h3]
By buying Whole Foods, Amazon is taking a bold step into brick-and-mortar, with more than 460 stores and potentially very lucrative data about how shoppers behave offline.
Two moves forward came Wednesday. Whole Foods shareholders gave their blessing to a union that its CEO had called “love at first sight.” And the Federal Trade Commission said in a brief statement that it had looked into competition concerns and would not block the deal.
The FTC investigated whether the takeover “substantially lessened competition” or “constituted an unfair method of competition,” said Bruce Hoffman, the acting director of the agency’s Bureau of Competition. “Based on our investigation we have decided not to pursue this matter further.”
[naviga:h3]Walmart gets into voice shopping[/naviga:h3]
NEW YORK — Walmart is diving into voice-activated shopping. But unlike online leader Amazon, it’s not doing it alone.
The world’s largest retailer said Wednesday it’s working with Google to offer hundreds of thousands of items from laundry detergent to Legos for voice shopping through Google Assistant.
The capability will be available in late September.
