Jason Buechel, who runs Amazon grocery and also serves as Whole Foods Market’s CEO, wrote that the company looked at where it could make “a meaningful difference in employees’ everyday lives” and landed on groceries because of how often people shop

What caught my attention isn’t the size of the discount. It’s the design. There’s no cap, no minimum purchase, and it’s available from day one of employment not after a waiting period, not tiered by seniority. And it stacks on top of existing savings: Prime discounts, Subscribe & Save, Lightning Deals, coupons.

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