Posted on 08/17/2009 1:34:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I plan to do a lot more shopping at Whole Foods in the coming weeks. Mostly in response to the moronic boycott of the store now gaining momentum on the left.
Let me see if I have the logic correct here: Whole Foods is consistently ranked among the most employee-friendly places to work in the service industry. In fact, Whole Foods treats employees a hell of a lot better than most liberal activist groups do. The company has strict environmental and humane animal treatment standards about how its food is grown and raised. The company buys local. The store near me is hosting a local tasting event for its regional vendors. Last I saw, the company’s lowest wage earners make $13.15 per hour. They also get to vote on what type of health insurance they want. And they all get health insurance. The company is also constantly raising money for various philanthropic causes. When I was there today, they were taking donations for a school lunch program. In short, Whole Foods is everything leftists talk about when they talk about “corporate responsibility.”
And yet lefties want to boycott the company because CEO John Mackey wrote an op-ed that suggests alternatives to single payer health care? It wasn’t even a nasty or mean-spirited op-ed. Mackey didn’t spread misinformation about death panels, call anyone names, or use ad hominem attacks. He put forth actual ideas and policy proposals, many of them tested and proven during his own experience running a large company. Is this really the state of debate on the left, now? “Agree with us, or we’ll crush you?”
These people don’t want a dicussion. They don’t want to hear ideas. They want you to shut up and do what they say, or they’re going to punish you.
Right now those creeps are craving cous cous and getting the shakes.
This idiotic boycott was in responde to a VERY REASONABLE OP-ED piece written by Whole Food’s CEO regarding how to reform our healthcare system.
FR had a whole thread discussing it here :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2317569/posts
CEO Mackay gave one of the MOST REASONABLE and in my view, workable, practical proposal I have ever read thus far on this issue.
The CEO is too right wing for them. They’ve griped about him in the past on other matters.
The irony is that the Whole Foods in the San Fernando Valley is the very epitome of trendy liberalism.
-But now I’ll have to start patronizing it.
I didn’t realize that Whole Foods also thinks about the whole body by providing healthy foods and helping to eliminate a toxic government health program.
I usually shop at Trader Joe’s but I guess that I will start shopping at Whole Foods now. They have definitely won me over.
CEO Mackay gave one of the MOST REASONABLE and in my view, workable, practical proposal I have ever read thus far on this issue.
Exactly! If you look at Mackey’s proposal, it’s the only one that ‘creates value’.
All others ‘capture value’ and eventually they run out of other people’s money!
I’m headed there shortly. Got a great deal on seafood yesterday.
I really like Whole Foods, unfortunately there is not one near me.
My wife and I will be doing nearly all of our shopping at Whole Foods.
LOL lol lol I’m sure 85% of Whole Food shoppers are Obama voters. I get a few items there once a month... like br rice and other whole grains or tofu (go ahead and laugh)
I personally went out of my way to swing by my Whole Foods store last week. I even left a note on their Customer Forum bulletin Board in support of Mackey.
Yes, his was a reasoned, sensible plan. What was so shocking to the lefties is that he called for some PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
This is what drove them over the edge...HOW DARE he expect someone to be responsible for themselves when they can simply demand someone else pay their bills for them...
snort
Where else are the birkenstockers going to get their arugula and organic goat milk?
I have shopped at Whole Foods part of the time for quite a while. The only reason I held back was because of all the left-wing granola nutbars who populated the place. Not all the shoppers fall into that category, but enough to pollute the atmosphere.
I’ll definitely start shopping there all the time now.
I wasn’t familiar with Whole Foods. Unfortunately, they don’t have a Charlotte location.
I agree. It was an incredibly good piece. Brilliant in parts. Voluntary contributions like what is done to cover public campaign financing etc. is just the start of how well-written his piece was.
By far the best thing I have read on the matter.
These idiots have not compassion for the employees, suppliers and their families. Libs are suppose to be caring people. BS!
I loved his simple answer. "See, that's where we differ. You think people are stupid and I don't."
There is a Whole Foods in the western part of Massachusetts that I visit to get two or three items I can’t easily find anywhere else. It is in a college town and filled with earthy-crunchy, vacant-eyed, oddly smelling hippie liberals. If you had a dollar for every anti-Bush, pro-Obama and global warming sticker you saw on the Priuses in the parking lot, you could...well, buy a week’s worth of groceries at Whole Foods.
Does this mean that the place will be transformed into a mecca for conservatives and moderates? Losing the liberals will bring an improvement in basic manners among shoppers. Seriously, I will also make more visits there...just taking care to avoid paying the newly increased sales tax.
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