Not a regular Whole Foods customer, and this is off the cuff, but my distinct impression with regard to how this will impact Whole Foods' "line" (i.e "normal")

Not a regular Whole Foods customer, and this is off the cuff, but my distinct impression with regard to how this will impact Whole Foods' "line" (i.e "normal") workers, is: Welcome to your McJob. When I do go into Whole Foods, the staff are always attentive and seem to be in relatively good moods and well treated. I am sorry for the negative impact I expect this will have on them. I don't have a Whole Foods close to me. And, while some items there can be oddly cheaper, and they further offer a "case" discount that is quite significant [1], it can indeed be "whole paycheck" for other items and if you're not comparison shopping. Which, for me, mostly means comparing with my local instance of a regional supermarket chain. Not as upscale as Whole Foods, but plenty ok, and a union shop, where the employees seem to be treated all right. (I know a few of them. I've heard at least one story about how the union had the back of a worker I know to be one of their better ones, when some new management douche tried to screw him over.) Amazon... Well, my overall impression of Amazon, is that it's a meat grinder, unless you are one of its "blessed" employees. We'll see whether they can manage to run contrary to that, in absorbing Whole Foods. 1) While a friend was in hospice, all she could eat reliably was yogurt, and she particularly liked one line that the facility she was in didn't carry. I stopped by Whole Foods and grabbed a bunch, of a variety of flavors -- whatever looked promising. At checkout, the cashier looked at it and gave me the case discount, without my asking. What should have been a $30+ total turned into... was it $10, or $15? I had to ask them to repeat the total, as it was nowhere near my mental math approximation. Separately, I like Amy's chili. For a long time, Whole Foods was the cheapest place for it -- even without the case discount. Sometimes, on the order of a dollar a can cheaper. On the other hand, some of their produce prices were double or more those of my local supermarket. Before getting into the whole "organic" question.