The Verge 2017 tech report card: Amazon

So many things happened in 2017 that it's hard to know where to get started when sizing up a wide-reaching tech behemoth's past year. So for Amazon, maybe it's best to start with a simple statement: it lowered prices on avocados.
Yes. In June, Amazon bought Whole Foods for $13.7 billion and reduced avocado pricesat its stores by $0.50 to $1.00, in a move that, generally speaking, pleased consumers. It also added more Alexa features and more and cheaper Echo devices in a series of moves that, gen