Posted on 04/19/2016 4:11:45 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Via Drew McCoy and Just Karl, you mean the cake section at Whole Foods — in Austin(!) — isn’t a hotbed of reactionary anti-gay sentiment?
Watch Jordan Brown’s short video, posted below, for background. He claims he ordered a cake at WF that was supposed to say “Love Wins” and instead they handed him something that said “Love Wins, Fag.” Pay attention to the cake box, which he insists is unopened and unaltered. The label is on the bottom and the top of the box has a blue-green pattern on it. His video went viral and the predictable uproar ensued online, sending Whole Foods HQ into crisis management. In this case the crisis spin was easy: We would never write “Fag” on a cake, they insisted. And today they reiterated that claim — with evidence.
Whole Foods on Tuesday said it has investigated and said the man, Jordan Brown, made fraudulent claims and would take legal action.
“After a deeper investigation of Mr. Brown’s claim, we believe his accusations are fraudulent and we intend to take legal action against both Mr. Brown and his attorney,” the company said in the statement…
“We stand behind our bakery team member, who is part of the LGBTQ community, and we appreciate the team members and shoppers who recognize that this claim is completely false and directly contradicts Whole Foods Market’s inclusive culture, which celebrates diversity,” the company said.
It’s the surveillance video they posted that’s killer, though. Watch the second clip below. That’s Brown on the lower right in the orange shirt and blue pants approaching the register with a cake. The time on the video matches the time on Brown’s receipt. Here’s a still:
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You know, for some reason I read that as ‘Gorilla Allred’
I hope they sue Jordan Brown so that he will never have enough money to be able to purchase a single item in their store ever again.
Most if not all major mental disorders, I mean the worst of the worst, have “gender confusion” as one of the prime markers. Gender confusion is a person who has sex with members of the same sex
Imagine if there are N causes that the SJW's care about. Imagine that you own a business that supports N-1 of those causes. A single malcontent SJW who disagrees with your stand on cause 'I' wants to get back at you. So he does it by making it look like your company really opposes cause 'J'.
If he is successful then he has doubled the number of SJW's that will hate your company.
So someone who hates Whole Foods' stand on Obamacare can make it look like Whole Foods is also anti-LGBT and get both the Obamacare fans and gays to boycott Whole Foods.
If you own a business and you're not 100% behind the SJW program your business is at risk.
Yes.
In fact only gays can call other gays gay, the same with faggots, queers, etc. I think gay is on top followed by fag and then queer. Correct me if I am wrong. And I don't really get where the faggays fit in the hierarchy. (a faggay is a gay who is fag, or a fag who is gay).
It is all soooo confusing.
And before someone hits the abuse button I am being serious here people.
The guy was most likely hoping for a settlement from Whole Foods.
Never in my life have I ordered a cake and walked out of the store or bakery without checking it first. In fact, every place I’ve ever ordered from has had a policy of SHOWING you the cake as soon as you take delivery of it. Whole foods is a major grocer so I can’t believe their policy would be any different. I smell BS
My thoughts exactly...
You are correct abouts WF. Their CEO is libertarian and wrote a book in defense of the free market and capitalism shortly after he came out against Obamacare. Here in Pittsburgh a couple of stupid hippies tried to picket our local WF store. I do shop there because they carry a lot of local produce, pastured eggs, and grass fed non homogenized milk that I can’t find elsewhere, but I’m hardly a liberal.
Am I missing something here or what? I watched his vid and the cake box has a clear plastic window on top? And he did not notice ?
How could you not see it before you paid the box is see thru.
Every single time I have ordered a cake when I go to pick it up they actually hold the cake up and show me BFORE they even put it in the box.
Not just one store, but all stores, have done that to make sure the cake is what I ordered.
Film Actors Guild. They thought it was a for an awards ceremony.
I am not much of a fan of Whole Foods and its overpriced tasteless product offerings but I applaud them for suing this clown. The fake hate crime stuff has gotten out of control and I really think states should consider minimum mandatory sentencing statutes for falsely reporting hate crimes.
Has anyone ever seen this Mr Brown and Michelle Fields in the same place at the same time?
Just sayin’’’’’
“Have you ever in your life ordered a cake with an inscription and then not so much as glanced at it before leaving the store with it? If you were an employee hell-bent on insulting a gay customer, wouldn’t you find a less traceable way to do it than to hand him a cake with a slur written on top and risk him calling your manager over right then and there in the store to view the smoking gun for himself?”
That reminds me of a story.
My best friend and have birthdays just days apart so on our 21st bday we decided to have a combined party for both of us. We ordered the cake to have both of our first names on it and invited a ton of people and had it at the Red Onion in Seal Beach, CA. (not sure that’s even there anymore).
Anyway, her name was Phyllis but they spelled it Phallis.
O.M.G.! We had so much fun with that! We laughed and laughed and so did our friends.
You can only imagine the jokes that came from that. It was a GREAT party.
Anyway, I digress...
What was my point?
” I do shop there because they carry a lot of local produce, pastured eggs, and grass fed non homogenized milk that I can’t find elsewhere, but I’m hardly a liberal.”
I shop at the WF downtown Austin because I can pay for a wine or beer and carry it around with me while I shop. Plus, I always learn something about some obscure veggie/herb/poultice/weathervane by reading the silly descriptions of the products. Also, they have a seafood grill where you can buy the item from the fish market, take it over to the cooks and tell them how to cook it, or you can order from their menu. There’s a huge salad bar, and lots of other grills, coffee shop and a bakery.
Don’t even get me started on the people watching! We are still called people right?
All in all a very entertaining experience!
While I support fighting leftist fascism, I have no sympathy for John Mackey.
I have actually heard him interviewed on shows like Sean Hannity, and portrayed as some sort of conservative; he is nothing of the kind.
Whole Foods is a leftist haven; many of their stores have sold Adbusters at the checkout line (for those who do not know, that is an outright anti-capitalist, pro-communist publication).
I am sick of crony leftist capitalists who actively promote leftist ideology through supposedly apolitical businesses(see Zuckerberg and Facebook), and I consider it their just desserts when their hands are bitten by the voracious mouths they so assiduously feed.
We have a large independent semi-gourmet grocery store where I live. It has good fish, meat and produce. I disputed that they had put item X into one of the plastic bags. They took me to the service counter where they said “Lets review the video”. I had never seen this before!. So we looked at the video of the cashier and me and sure enough I was wrong and they were right. It was on tape! When I checked my bags again in the trunk of my car, item X was there!
I never knew they had cameras at each cashier’s station. Sure makes it easier for them when a customer says they paid for something but it was not put in one of the shopping bag.
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