John Mackey

We're not supposed to be there.

It was his own commercial place.

We just lived up there and we actually took showers in the Hobart dishwasher from the cafe.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

I'm pretty sure that violated most of Austin's healthcare rules.

I think so too.

We didn't promote it.

Anyhow, so to speed up that story a little bit,

We decided we got to get a bigger location.

We found some additional capital to invest, and we opened up the first Whole Foods Market.

We merged with another small natural food store like Safer Way that was, you might say, a friendly rival.

And together, we co-founded the first Whole Foods Market, which was a great, huge success right from the beginning.

Within six months, it had become the highest volume natural food store in the entire United States.

It just took off.

It was one of the world's first natural food supermarkets.

Not the very first, but one of the first three or four.

And it was very successful.

We were in the right place at the right time.

It just went bonkers.