Another thing Amazon has changed is that our culture at Whole Foods tended to be intuitive, managing more by the gut. Amazon made the decision, and Whole Foods concurred with it, that we just needed to pay better. The whole world is getting fat, it’s just that Americans are at the leading edge of that. We’re getting fat, and we’re getting sicker, by the way. And if people want different foods, the market will provide it.
Source: New York Times September 24, 2020 09:00 UTC