Ronald Burkle

Supermarket companies are big logistics companies, and one of the ways we've increased profitability in the past is by re-evaluating how they do logistics.

I started out as a box boy. You know, I didn't go to college, and I did well in supermarkets.

You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you're known for the wrong things.

I think traditional supermarkets have to pay attention to the fact that America is more and more conscious of lifestyle.

Since I was 13, I've been buying things because they are ridiculously cheap.

I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.

I don't know what's going on in America. I know what people in New York and Beverly Hills think about Whole Foods, but I don't know what people anywhere else think.