It is so funny that even a hippie-run outfit like Whole Foods is not politically correct enough in this Worker's Paradise.
Wow! Was there violence, or did they just trade laid-back verbal “barbs” over bong-hits?
Why don’t Hippies like Ben & Jerry’s move there? Oh right...
I think Whole Foods is being rather silly. They are in a no-win situation, so their best strategy is to find a way to lose the least.
Capitulating to a 60-yr mom-and-pop operation isn’t going to do any damage to their balance sheet at all. They ought to chalk it up to experience and try not to make the locals any madder than they are already. Angry people don’t buy health food, and they sure as Hell don’t buy coffee, almond milk and kombucha.
I have been predicting that the new Whole Foods in Santa Cruz will be a dismal failure. Their choice of location in the county is too far away from the hippie paradise of Santa Cruz city and too far north from the “monied” residents of South County. The site is smack in the middle of a very large (and poor) hispanic population.
AND........every grocery store that’s ever been in that location has failed. Almost like the site is cursed or something.
If the flower shop can get whole foods to change there mind because of public pressure isn’t this free speech in action? As long as the city dose not get envoled the flower shop has the right to try to win public pressure.
Kind of stupid for a business that’s as dependent on warm-and-fuzzy cultural cachet as Whole Foods.
When business wants you out; they don’t care how they do it.
What's even funnier is they proved that capitalism works, and socialism doesn't. It sounds as though the coffee bar will be more lucrative than the old lease with the flower folks.
When lefties collide!
Lol! But remember Whole Foods forgot the first word in the company’s name: A$$.