Whole Foods CEO Spurs Boycott With Health Care
By Laura Northrup, 7:00 PM on Sat Aug 15 2009, s
Memo to Whole Foods CEO John Mackey: when much of your customer base consists of reusable-bag-using, wheatgrass-munching “progressive” types, it’s probably not such a good idea to publish an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal criticizing current health care reform proposals. At least if you don’t want said customers organizing boycotts of your stores.....
http://consumerist.com/5338218/whole-foods-ceo-spurs-boycott-with-health-care-views
So Mackey should be afraid to give his opinion. He knows his marketplace, and am sure weighed the outcome. He's not an idiot to run a prosperous business even in bad times (so it is written).I think it is a misnomer to think most customers are wheat based progressives. You make a decent income to even afford to shop in many of these "niche" markets.I think we are stereotyping eating healthy with the old term of "Birkenstock granola munchers". Maybe at one time, but not anymore. Nothing wrong with eating healthy. Living now in a more rural area has changed my eating habits... so I must have started thinking progressively. ;)
Small non-government funded Farmers are very "wheat based" and had to be "progressive" to survive.
We put tags on everything..too often so inaccurate in reality.
Perhaps many of the obese in society who are often the "sick" ones (diabetics etc) that continuously "feed" off Health Care should think more progessively. It would be costing all of us far less. After all the COST is taking care of the sick, not those of us that are continously healthly by thinking progressively (even exercise) on how we should eat.