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.
Not so much a free speech issue as it is a freedom of association issue for Whole Foods. It is their property, and they are right to do with it as they please. This includes non renewing leases as they end.
The public backlash is the consequence of that expressed right.
I don't much care for the hippy-dippy attitude of the general Whole Foods ideal, but I do support them in their right of free association.
That fella in the picture is not identified as a concerned Beserklian, but rather as a City Council-Critter. And Mister Bates is also using his his bully pulpit as Mayor to lean on Whole Foods.
The City is most definitely involved.