http://www.organicauthority.com/has-costco-defeated-whole-foods-as-the-champion-of-organic-food/
Costco Is Selling So Much Organic Produce, Farmers Can’t Keep Up
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/costco-organic-produce-farmers-partnership_us_570d0a80e4b01422324a1f6c
Whole Foods to shrink store count for first time since 2008
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-whole-foods-closing-stores-20170209-story.html
Why Whole Foods is now struggling
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/02/09/why-whole-foods-is-now-struggling/
Organic food is more popular than ever, so why is Whole Foods struggling?
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2017/0211/Organic-food-is-more-popular-than-ever-so-why-is-Whole-Foods-struggling
The numbers back his claims: Sales of organic products increased 209 percent between 2005 and 2015, topping $43.3 billion in 2016, the US Organic Trade Association said. Studies from the US Department of Agriculture also underscore the rapid development of the industry. As a micro example in New Mexico, for instance, the number of organic farms grew from 67 in 2011 to 166 in 2014. The United States Department of Agriculture counted 12,634 organic farms in the US overall in 2014, the date of the last farm survey.
Whole Foods, who brands itself as "America's healthiest grocery store," is no longer the only market for fresh, minimally processed produce and foods. Now nearly three out of four grocery stores offer organic products, according to USDA.
In addition to the popular farmers’ markets popping up in more and more cities, retailers including Walmart, Kroger, Aldi, and Costco all offer organic selections to the consumers flocking to their aisles for their lower prices.
According to the Seattle Times, Costco in 2015 became the biggest organic grocer, selling more than $4 billion of organic food each year, while Kroger’s recently launched organic line also netted $1.2 billion in sales in 2014.
Ideally we're eating organic whole foods, though the bottom line is still having conventional whole foods rather than organic junk.
Who Owns Organic - Cornucopia Institute
https://www.cornucopia.org/who-owns-organic/
Organic Processing Industry Structure
https://msu.edu/~howardp/organicindustry.html
Fortunately, those organic junk food brands are owned by the major corporate agribusinesses and hopefully the independent ones won't go "rogue" or anything like that.
My favorites are Bob's Red Mill, Eden Foods, and Frontier Natural Products as listed above. Arrowhead Mills are owned by Hain Celestial Group but it's just too hard to give up their organic green split peas.
These guys are also independent and their canned tomatoes (enamel lining instead of BPA) are awesome:
http://www.bionaturae.com/about-us.html