John Mackey
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But Amazon, because of Amazon, our corporate people didn't have to.
They could work at home.
And after a year, I thought it was wrecking our culture because we had sort of a privileged elite that didn't have to play by the same rules everybody else had.
And that was so not Whole Foods.
We had a much more egalitarian culture.
Everybody gets the same benefits.
Everybody gets the same discounts.
No privileged elite.
So that bothered me a lot.
And I could see it was affecting... People asked me about it when I go down to the stores.
Hey, are the people back to work upstairs?
Yes.
I was there.
But...
Amazon didn't want us to force anybody to come back to work.
And I wanted to.
So I'm talking to Dave Clark, who was my superior, who in almost every other way, I really loved Dave.
I still love Dave.
Dave was very smart and he was a very decisive and a very good decision maker.
I watched him make good decisions over the years and he was a very good decision maker.