Or a CEO, anyway – burn him!
Whole Foods aficionados who assumed the company’s management was as crunchy as the brand are feeling betrayed.
They have stormed Twitter, Facebook and the blogosphere to vent their rage at John Mackey, the chief executive. In an op-ed column in the Wall Street Journal last week, he argued for health-care savings accounts and declared that health care is not an intrinsic right– ideas with a conservative bent, which made Whole Foods’ liberal customer base go ballistic…
“A lot of people have been paying a premium for the Whole Foods brand for years,” said Mark Rosenthal, a playwright living in Massachusetts who founded the Boycott Whole Foods group a few days ago. It has nearly 14,000 members. “A lot of people are sad to look at this corporation and see that it is just like any other, if not worse.”
Delicious.
Excuse me, but I gotta go and make our week’s grocery purchase at Whole Foods to show my support.
Ummm. Crunchy ganola bars…
His food turned me into a newt!
I got better.
I used to shop Whole Foods when my oldest was at home – at the time he was severely allergic to milk, and about the only place that carried soy based ice cream was Whole Foods. Time moves on, he grew up, and I couldn’t face paying the extra amount just to shop at (supposedly a ‘health food’ store). I think it is time I revisited the place and show support. Any CEO that has the, uh, gumption to speak such truth deserves my support.
So. Let them eat Ben & Jerry’s instead. (And wait for the ruckus that follows the discovery that B&J sold out to a conglomerate as well. What’s a food PC wannabe hippie type to do?)
The whole thing makes me want to support that company.
I can only guess at the depth of business wisdom and knowledge a playwright has. Then again, I may be being hasty in my understanding of that trade, which, might secretly be a “large conglomerate” and not a bunch of small business persons trying to get along in a cold, hard world, on a dark and stormy nights, while the midnight (whale) oil burns in the lamps of the Oval Office (and Axelrod’s, too!), figuring ways to smash the little business people out of existence with excessive taxation…
Refreshing… common sense. The truth hurts, some folks.
I love Whole Foods. Just went there today to do my monthly WF shop. Maybe now I’ll start gong more often.
It’s always embarrassing to me, as a liberal, that we’re identified with the crunchy morons. Some days, I feel like I can’t stand half of my own political compatriots.
/Rant
The CEO has guts, that’s for sure!
Values-based marketing is a double-edged sword.
I like the smell of Starbucks coffee, but am so offended by the stench of their pandering to the left!
On the other hand, the local Dunkin Donuts recently sponsored a share of profits for Soldier’s Angels. Which now I kinda like the coffee better there.
I dunno. My daughter shops the WF thing but I’m not too enthused about a guy in birkenstocks wearing an apron that can pontificate for 15 minutes about the natural method of growing and harvesting baby carrots. I asked him about why their building wasn’t naturally cooled and lighted (no ambient light, no opening windows, 12 tons of ac on the roof) and why they used city chlorinated water for their “natural rain spray” on their veggie aisle. Didn’t that kind of negate all of his zeal for wholesomeness? Not in the least. Very selective in their inflow and retention of information.
But as for the CEO – guess it’s all about “show me the money”. Environmentally friendly eco-business don’t stay around too long after their cash runs out, cuz ya know, all those eco-employees still wanna get paid. now, whassup wiith that?
Still shopping at the commissary. The CEO of the DoD (that would be POTUS) however has been espousing some positions I don’t agree with. I used to think it was a great place, but now the cheerios I buy there are giving me indigestion. Maybe I’ll just plant a small farm in the backyard like Michelle and the girls and live off the land.
The closest WF to me is about 10 miles in the wrong direction from work. Think what I could accomplish by going there to shop in our Jeep Grand Cherokee 4×4. Increasing my carbon footprint and supporting WF.
It would be like bowling with same-thinking-liberals like the above-captioned playwright as pins. How many can I knock down at once?
Think of the fun you could have!