In a society with a disappearing middle class, this actually makes sense. A few people at the top won't know or care what food costs, and the rest will do just

In a society with a disappearing middle class, this actually makes sense. A few people at the top won't know or care what food costs, and the rest will do just about any menial task for near-starvation wages. Shiny grocery stores like Whole Foods will disappear as the people who would be impressed simply send their insta-serfs. They'll be replaced by warehouses like Food4Less, filled with scurrying underpaid pickers.