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Images) More Photos"I will never shop there again," vowed Joshua, a 45-year-old blogger, who asked that his last name not be published.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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Good to meet you, Messr. Towney.
Or may I call you Cow?
same thing at Trader Joe’s.
They are totally unaware of others.
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.
Do you like my nom de plume?
or would you prefer fortworthless or fortworther?
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.
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.
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.
I haven’t shopped there in years. The customers turned me off. Maybe I will take another look.
Hey, if your name was Elvis Shaka Zulu you’d come up with something better too.
Well, maybe not... Texans are strange folk.
I have and will boycott the place just because they sell organic garbage!
Sometimes, I wish I could have TWO taglines.
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.
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.
I predict this liberal boycott will be as effective as Not One Damn Dime day.
I live near a Whole Foods and have begun shopping there more often since the haters demanded they not carry any items from Israel
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....
I despise Whole Foods and their wacko customers. It’s popcorn time.
If one cannot speak up even mildly, saying, “I support reforms, just DIFFERENT reforms,” without this reaction, then I’m speechless.
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Dissent is not allowed among the cultists.
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.
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