John Mackey

Jeff says, this has been great.

I want to follow up with you.

Let's get together and talk.

I didn't hear from him.

Of course, he's going through that when his marriage was starting to break up and stuff like that.

And then a year later, we contact Amazon, see if they're interested.

They were very interested.

We flew in, had a special meeting with Jeff and his top senior leaders.

And we had, you know, I always like to tell people, you know, when you fall in love with somebody, there's always what I call the conversation.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The conversation where you connect and the hearts connect.

And it's like, whoa, I've never met anybody quite like this.

And you fell in love.

That happened in our first conversation with Amazon.

These guys were not like I thought they were going to be.

They were incredibly intelligent, which I thought they would be.

Very entrepreneurial, very strategic.

We talked about all the things Whole Foods and Amazon could do together.

And I remember our team, the three executives I brought with me, we went to a restaurant afterwards to process what had happened, and we were kind of looking around saying, that was incredible.

That was an incredible conversation.