Community Market is a business entirely run and owned by the workers. Workers get all the profits and make up the board of directors. Worker-directed businesses are the best answer for how to fairly organize work within our capitalist economic system. Worker-directors make decisions on what is best for them, not what's best for outside shareholders whose eyes are only on the bottom line.
I dearly love the Whole Foods staff and I continue to shop there. But Whole Foods is a large corporation built on traditional lines. I want to support worker-run businesses and Community Market is a great example. It just feels different.
For more on worker-run businesses go here: https://www.rdwolff.com/content/demo...ure-capitalism
Richard Wolff has a show on KPFA, Economic Update, Fridays at 10 AM. Pretty much every week he does a segment on worker-run and owned businesses.