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I say: F**k Whole Paycheck and their $8 arugula that was monocultured on industrial farms 1500 miles away and shipped in plastic bags. Buy Local Food...or grow your own. It is fresher, cheaper, will stimulate the local economy and build community. Find your nearest farmers' market here: http://localharvest.org
Whole Foods boycott/buycott showdown
Dante Chinni
The Christian Science Monitor: 09.02.2009
There are many commandments in retail, but above them all is one rule: Know thy customer.
If you run Wal-Mart, don’t stock Louis Vuitton – or at least not real Louis Vuitton. If you work at Toys ‘R’ Us, where some shoppers are kids, watch your language. And if you are the CEO of relentlessly progressive Whole Foods, the upscale grocery store that specializes in organic items, don’t come out against the Obama administration’s healthcare proposals.
On Aug. 11, John Mackey, the chairman and CEO of Whole Foods, did just that. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined “The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare,” Mr. Mackey said a number of things that might not sit well with his clientele – perhaps most memorably, “the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system.”
Mackey later said he was speaking for himself and not for his chain of stores, but the damage had been done. Whole Foods foodies went to the barricades, kind of. Customers pledged to stop shopping at the stores. They urged the TV show “Top Chef” to drop Whole Foods as a sponsor. And in typical 2009 fashion, they expressed their outrage on Facebook, creating a “Boycott Whole Foods” page, which has more than 32,000 members.
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Back in 2008, this Whole Foods, CEO John Mackey (how old is this kid?), was caught posting negative comments (trash talk) about a competitor on Yahoo Finance message boards in an effort to push down the stock price. So now I am suppose to take this loser seriously? Please, snore, snore.
It’s funny we hear Republicans say that they do not want “faceless bureaucrats” making medical decisions but they have no problem with “private sector” “faceless bureaucrats” daily declining medical coverage and financially ruining good hard working people (honestly where can they go with a pre-condition). And who says that the “private sector” is always right, do we forget failures like Long-Term Capital, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Enron, Tyco, AIG and Lehman Brothers. Of course the federal government will destroy heathcare by getting involved, Oh but wait, Medicare and Medicaid and our military men and women and the Senate and Congress get the best heathcare in the world, and oh, that’s right, its run by our federal government. I can understand why some may think that the federal government will fail, if you look at the past eight years as a current history, with failures like the financial meltdown and Katrina but the facts is they can and if we support them they will succeed.
How does shouting down to stop the conversation of the healthcare debate at town hall meetings, endears them to anyone. Especially when the organizations that are telling them where to go and what to do and say are Republicans political operatives, not real grassroots. How does shouting someone down or chasing them out like a “lynch mob” advanced the debate, it does not. So I think the American people will see through all of this and know, like the teabagger, the birthers, these lynch mobs types AKA “screamers” are just the same, people who have to resort to these tactics because they have no leadership to articulate what they real want. It’s easy to pickup a bus load of people who hate, and that’s all I been seeing, they hate and can’t debate. Too bad.
Paul-I agree with you. The lawmakers, congressmen, Reps, Senators, etc. all have excellent health insurance afforded to them by the US taxpayer. Why only them? All of these Washington Insiders can afford to pay for their own private insurance if pressed, but hell! Why should they when they are given it by the people? Why should we even listen to any of them on the evils of the "government controlled medicine machine" when they all gobble it up for themselves...Absurd.
We don't have The Whole Foods here, but i heard of the boycott on NPR and googled it. Interesting article you posted. If every employer provided healthcare like theirs it would be great. But very few do. Why not legislate compulsary employer healthcare? Subsidize the small businesses, but make it part of working-not a perk or bonus.
You tell it like it is Verge! I like the way you think :)
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