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Whole Foods' CEO says the company hasn't lost its identity, but likened the Amazon acquisition to a marriage: 'If you don't change, you're going to get a divorce'

But in recent months, tensions have risen between two factions of the business: Whole Foods employees and Prime Now workers who pack and deliver online orders. Whole Foods workersin September that while the grocery business has boomed during the coronavirus pandemic, it's led to safety problems and overcrowding at Whole Foods stores.

"Team-member morale is the lowest I've ever seen it," one employee told Business Insider. "Global" — Whole Foods' corporate office in Austin — "keeps asking us for feedback, and we keep saying to them: Team members don't feel safe. They don't feel safe from the virus, and they don't feel safe from the customers. I have never seen so many people look so stressed and so afraid.

 

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If one of you is being forced to change by the other, it’s not a good marriage.

So...using this same analogy...Isn’t the whole reason you get married is because you love the other person? Why on earth would you get married only to change? I’d be pissed if I got into a bait and switch situation like that. I want what I signed up for.

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Now Amazon is competing with Whole Foods with Amazon Fresh.

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