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Health Care Stirs Up Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, Customers Boycott Organic Grocery Store
ABC News ^ | 8/14/09 | EMILY FRIEDMAN

Posted on 08/14/2009 10:26:23 AM PDT by SeattleBruce

Joshua has been taking the bus to his local Whole Foods in New York City every five days for the past two years. This week, he said he'll go elsewhere to fulfill his fresh vegetable and organic produce needs.

Customers are threatening to boycott Whole Foods stores after the company's CEO, John Mackey, wrote an op-ed discussing his ideas for health care reform. (Getty Images) More Photos"I will never shop there again," vowed Joshua, a 45-year-old blogger, who asked that his last name not be published.

Like many of his fellow health food fanatics, Joshua said he will no longer patronize the store after learning about Whole Foods Market Inc.'s CEO John Mackey's views on health care reform, which were made public this week in an op-ed piece he wrote for The Wall Street Journal.

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To: cowtowney; Tijeras_Slim
“Tijeras_Slim” - I look forward to you putting your real name on FR.

Good to meet you, Messr. Towney.

Or may I call you Cow?

21 posted on 08/14/2009 10:45:08 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("If they taxed condoms and toilet paper, they'd have us coming and going." - Lazamataz, 2002)
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To: Boardwalk
Can you imagine shopping at Whole Foods where patrons are wearing Palin-2012 buttons? I will think I have stepped into an alternate universe!
22 posted on 08/14/2009 10:50:25 AM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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To: Owl_Eagle

same thing at Trader Joe’s.

They are totally unaware of others.


23 posted on 08/14/2009 10:50:51 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: SeattleBruce

Count me in. It’s interesting to note that, according to an article I read recently, many of the long-time customers of Whole Foods who supported the store from the beginning, are now dropping away, disenchanted because the company has become too successful and is expanding.

Sometimes, there’s no cure for hippies. Not even soap.


24 posted on 08/14/2009 10:51:00 AM PDT by DPMD (~)
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To: Lazamataz

Do you like my nom de plume?

or would you prefer fortworthless or fortworther?


25 posted on 08/14/2009 10:51:30 AM PDT by cowtowney
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To: SeattleBruce

Well, he sounds like a man with real-world experience who has actually thought through the issues and has come up with a practical plan. His detractors are goofballs who haven’t thought it through any farther than “everyone has a right to free health care.”

I’d be interested in seeing his thoughts on other issues.


26 posted on 08/14/2009 10:52:16 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." --Orwell)
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To: SeattleBruce

I go to Whole Foods rarely because the nearest one is 40 miles away. However it probably passed these yahoos notice that one of the statements on the store’s philosophy (prominently posted near the entrance )is to the effect that they believe in stimulating their growth through profit. One would think that alone would send the librats fleeing.

And come to think of it supporting a business that showcases and supports small farmers, artisan food producers and local purveyors is a conservatives value.


27 posted on 08/14/2009 10:53:08 AM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

The whole place usually stinks of old Birkenstock cork and patchouli.

It’s funny, though, that leftists frequent there out of their own sense of superiority,

and now the CEO speaks out about the weakness of one facet of their ideology and they abandon them.

I might have to tell my wife that it’s OK to shop there now.
But, I bet the CEO gets fired soon.


28 posted on 08/14/2009 10:56:15 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: Albion Wilde

I haven’t shopped there in years. The customers turned me off. Maybe I will take another look.


29 posted on 08/14/2009 10:57:08 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: cowtowney

Hey, if your name was Elvis Shaka Zulu you’d come up with something better too.

Well, maybe not... Texans are strange folk.


30 posted on 08/14/2009 10:58:30 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: SeattleBruce

I have and will boycott the place just because they sell organic garbage!


31 posted on 08/14/2009 11:01:11 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: DPMD
Sometimes, there’s no cure for hippies. Not even soap.

Sometimes, I wish I could have TWO taglines.

32 posted on 08/14/2009 11:01:45 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: SeattleBruce

We shop there once in a while when my wife has a hankerin’ for food that’s overpriced and no better than our normal grocery. Personally, I like their sunflower seeds, at least.


33 posted on 08/14/2009 11:01:57 AM PDT by SoDak (Molon Labe)
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To: SeattleBruce

What most strikes me is this. The CEO’s op-ed in the WSJ was very mild and full of specifics. Disagree with it if you wish, but my goodness, it’s not as if the guy wrote a Michael-Moore-type fire-breathing screed. If one cannot speak up even mildly, saying, “I support reforms, just DIFFERENT reforms,” without this reaction, then I’m speechless.


34 posted on 08/14/2009 11:03:30 AM PDT by pogo101
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To: Anti-Bubba182
It will be interesting to see how Mackey’s company does in the face of a boycott.

I predict this liberal boycott will be as effective as Not One Damn Dime day.

35 posted on 08/14/2009 11:04:07 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: SeattleBruce

I live near a Whole Foods and have begun shopping there more often since the haters demanded they not carry any items from Israel


36 posted on 08/14/2009 11:07:19 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: SeattleBruce

The facebook page for Whole foods has a comment section for this article he wrote. More in support than oppose. One poster said that if they wanted to cater to the conservative shopper then they need to carry instant grits, pork rinds and cheetos. Rich snobby dems....


37 posted on 08/14/2009 11:37:34 AM PDT by Lets Be Frank
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To: SeattleBruce

I despise Whole Foods and their wacko customers. It’s popcorn time.


38 posted on 08/14/2009 11:39:00 AM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: pogo101

If one cannot speak up even mildly, saying, “I support reforms, just DIFFERENT reforms,” without this reaction, then I’m speechless.
++++++++++++++++

Dissent is not allowed among the cultists.


39 posted on 08/14/2009 11:58:23 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country & the Tea Party! Take America Back! (Objective media? Try TRAITORS.))
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To: lastchance

And come to think of it supporting a business that showcases and supports small farmers, artisan food producers and local purveyors is a conservatives value.
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Good point. At the least, this provides a GREAT opportunity to ask libtards, so why don’t you even want to discuss ideas related to health care? It makes them look SO totally idiotic, it really does. They are stuck with this massive stinker of an idea that Mackey just TOOK APART in one article. Now what’s a loyal, cultist libtard to do?

I’m very glad for the polling on HR3200 so far, and Mackey’s and other alternatives - health care savings accounts, catastrophic free market alternatives, etc. etc. can only help.

That’s why we need to trumpet the altneratives from the rooftops - as we oppose the monster power grab HR3200.


40 posted on 08/14/2009 12:03:33 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country & the Tea Party! Take America Back! (Objective media? Try TRAITORS.))
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