Posted on 08/19/2009 4:33:14 PM PDT by Schnucki
I’m coming a bit late to this, but what a hoot: America’s - and Britain’s - smuggest supermarket, Whole Foods, is facing a boycott by its liberal customers because its CEO, John Mackey, criticised Obamacare in The Wall Street Journal. ABC news carries this quote:
Christine Taylor, a 34-year-old New Jersey shopper, vowed never to step foot in another Whole Foods again.
“I will no longer be shopping at Whole Foods,” Taylor told ABCNews.com. “I think a CEO should take care that if he speaks about politics, that his beliefs reflect at least the majority of his clients.”Speaking personally, I feel liberated by Mackey’s stance. I quite like the food that liberal-lefties stuff themselves with (a friend of mine in San Francisco coined the phrase “activist butt” to describe the results). Now I can pop down to Whole Foods in Kensington High Street to buy wholemeal muffins knowing that, with every bite, I’m helping to undermine Obama’s presidency. Mmm…
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I overheard an older gentleman at the next counter yesterday, and he seemed to be saying he was going to shop at Whole Foods now because of that letter.
I’d give Whole Foods some business but there is none in my area.
I doubt they will follow through - they are so addicted to their self-indulgent ‘organic food cult’ they won’t be able to sustain it past a week.
Whole Foods is still overprice. I rather go to my local supermarket.
We recently bought a used auto. One of the reasons we bought from the dealership we did, was because the owner had taken out full-page ads in the newspaper critical of BamBam's dealership screw-a-thon.
I think there’s a case to be made for businesses keeping their politics to themselves. If you take a stand one way or another, half the country (who are, after all, prospective customers) and at least some of your employees, will consider you to be the enemy.
That said, it’s great fun to dress up like a Hippie moon-bat, go into some place like Whole Foods in some super-lefty locale, go to the meat counter, and start loudly squawking about how ‘meat is murder’. Start a loud, contentious blue-on-blue argument, and tiptoe away. :-)
It is not for nothing that Whole Foods is called “Whole Paycheck”.
Where will President Obama get his arugula now?
Ok, here’s where we test all those goobers that claimed that the Dixie Chicks didn’t have the right to ‘Free Speech’.
If some of you folks want to support the American economy by buying bad and possibly poisoned fish from SE Asia and China, than keep shopping at Wally World!!!
Whole Foods is overpriced. They also have some great stuff you’ll never find anywhere else. I’ll give them some bidness just because.
They did. And I had the right to tune them out.
And how many times have your done that Riley, really.
You know, I always assume that my favorite musicians probably don’t agree with my political philosophy. Its almost a given.
But some few of them seem to go out of their way to insult me or the things I care about, and at that point it gets hard to enjoy them. Its not a boycott; I just can’t listen anymore, and I turn the dial. If the radio station plays them a lot, I find myself listening to other stations down the dial.
If you’re a musician, you should let your music speak for itself, it will cross boundaries that politics can’t cross. If you bring your politics into your art too explicitly, you lose that advantage.
Does this go for all those companies who pulled ads from Glenn Beck?
They got some kick ass deli foods though! Good hot meals on the go.
Give the witch a break....she's from a chemical impregnated state and she's talking to a suspect news organization.
Maybe they'll all go work at Walmart now that they don't advertise on Glenn Beck's show.
I told hubby we got to go spend some $$$ at whole paycheck this weekend.
It is like a fanatsy world of food. You might think it was lefty, but you’ll want to eat EVERYTHING in it. But it really is as expensive as advertised.
Which just shows the elitism of the left. They should have the finest food at the highest price, but somehow they thing they’re all proles.
But of course they don’t think that at all.
They think WE’RE all proles.
So nice to see the boss doesn’t see it that way.
So we’ll be shopping there soon, and I urge all to do the same.
I hope & pray that Obambi will prove the last gasp of the radical left in America and I only hope we survive the next 3 1/2 years to get us to the death rattle of it all. Since, when? the 1870s? Certainly the 30s (no, long before certainly) until now these people have been a pernicious and destructive influence on our nation. I hope Obama truly proves to be their LAST great hope.
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