(Beware of irksome Business Insider adblocker-blocking nag-box.) As another reader has remarked, “the title hints at some ulterior dark motive” or somesuch, an

(Beware of irksome Business Insider adblocker-blocking nag-box.) As another reader has remarked, “the title hints at some ulterior dark motive” or somesuch, and implies that consumers should be alarmed and horrified by this change of practice. I fail to see how plugging a hole with something else actually makes any shopper’s life better: it doesn’t resolve the scarcity and it induces shoppers to buy things they didn’t intend. So why the implied scandal? (Note: I’ve been to Whole Foods perhaps five or ten times in the past decade, because I don’t live in the U.S.)