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Cheese, Good Cheese is hard to do on Amazon or Costco or Walmart. Single orders are expensive to ship (to keep cool). Real delicatessen meats are the same way. So, large retailers handle commodity quality products in those niches. And others like them.
So local small businesses capitalize. The olive oil (and vinegars and other unusual food stuffs and serving platters) store is four years old and doing well. It’s one of many stores buying from a California outfit that’s also doing well.
Same with the new high-end deli. Food that isn’t ultra-processed. Isn’t commodified. Food worth serving to company.
A light in the darkness of crapification.