Or to distill it down even further, Whole Foods doesn’t have food stamp customers: they must actually compete for actual cash: food stamp nation can’t afford to shop there.
Mackey has been damaged by the Dept of Agriculture.. ironic since WF’s product lines seek improvement of national agricultural processes.
Looks like a liberal got mugged here.
Not so much...he was an early disciple of Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman apparently:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1460600/john-mackeys-whole-foods-vision-reshape-capitalism