The truth in this country is that Americans need to stop expecting doctors to solve all your problems with a pill. Sometimes, you do get sick or worse.
Whole Foods is a good place to buy your groceries and local products. Responsibility for your body should be what the individuals do.
So, what is the truth about Whole Foods? The truth is that people need to stop eating garbage like Mc Donalds, Burger King, Wendys, etc. Where is the protest on these places? Joke.
when i used the insurance provided by whole foods it never was covered & i had to use my FSA account to cover the cost so if u look at it ur paying out of pocket from the money you put in for the FSA account yes u get a deductible but your still paying ur bill not throught the insurance but outta the money u work fror throughout the years
The Whole Foods system works better, because it gives more money to the employees instead of the Insurance companies.-FSA money can be spent on many types of preventative health-care products. Plus there's nothing wrong with getting people to spend more carefully
I'm sorry that history and economics don't agree with your "Progressive" Dogma.
Postscript. Thanks to the people like the self-serving dufae hehind this channel, many many more people know about Mackeycare, which is a republican proposal. Good job, Dufae! You silly schills.
forwardmover yeah, Madoff is in prison, with Abramoff , however Amway pyramid scam founder Devos is footloose and fancy free - sometimes it actually pays to donate to the GOP , no?
HeeBros .... you smart guys, when you go to a party, do you all put money into a pot (socialist thing) to buy beer and drugs, or do you do the selfish libertarian thang ... the BYOB?
Corporate crime? What is their crime? Free speech that contradicts yours. The free speech of one person in the corp. I pay a premium at Starbucks. I know theyre liberals but I enjoy their product and that they give back to the community. Short of a numerous proportion of Starbucks employees stating that republicans are vile human beings, I will continue to go to Starbucks. You are so infantile.
How about this? The vast majority of the human population barely eeks by at current food prices. Imagine the stag-flationary pressures caused by a combination public option/ cap and trade bill. Millions will starve to death every year (3rd world countries) because of the inefficient allocation of resources. Talk about Pareto inefficient policies. The ceo was advocating personal responsibility because even your draconian vision has zero chance of curving the long run cost curve.
axe863 Our nation is worse off in our healthcare "insurance system" than any other Western Industrialized Nation, in fact we rank number 37, France ranks as number ONE . What's the difference? We are the only one without Universal Healthcare for our citizens. 'Nuff said.
America in that same report ranks number 1 in response but because that is only weighted at less than 20% and equality of care is weighted at over 50%, they are not ranked higher. Even countries with horrific care but equality of horrific care rank high. Note Cuba. Nuff Said!!!!
axe863 you didn't know? Cuba's infant mortality rate is LOWER than the USA, and they have less resources AND a US embargo against them... AND Cuba's overall life expentancy is HIGHER than the USA ... hmmm, Cubans overthrew a fascist Batista but never overthrew Castro.
In California the secretary of state will let you create your own corporation, for just $100. You can do this and commit corporate crimes. Or get a job
If you had ANY kind of a real job you probably wouldn't be "working " for the owner of this silly channel. later. and, are you surprised Cubans are healthier. When you have no money for McDonals, a diet of pretty much rice and beans WILL keep you thin AND increase your impovershed life. This is what Cubans tell me.
lets look at this from a different perspective....the Jewish people love BMWs and Mercedes Benz, etc. (me being one of them)....who were these cars created by....the Germans, Adolf Hitler type, yet Jewish people still drive around in these kinds of cars everyday no matter what the Germans "stood for", etc.
You obviously fail to understand how power operates within the United States? A dupe like yourself on the street who yells out his opinion is of little consequence, however when John Mackey states a position, he has the power to enact his ideas and influence others beyond his immediate circle of influence.
No my friend, I'm certainly not influenced by CEOs on this end. You however are a bewildered farm animal who passively subscribes to corporate sponsored PR messages via TV and radio.
Just curious...how many books have you read in the past 5 years?
HuckMeHard that's why most of us are excercising our Constitutional 1st Amendment Rights to speak with our spending habits... which we won't be doing at Whole Foods anymore
mark doesn't know what he is talking about and neither do the YTs. of course he's in Massachusetts. what else would you expect from an east coast snot?
i like the lanny davis comments. because, you know, if someone disagrees with you then he or she is just human detritus. you wouldn't want to actually discuss the issues; that would be to difficult
you guys really don't get it. how can this gov serve millions more people, without spending more money? hello? the 10 yr deficit is 14.4 trillion!
You are so compassionate, Mark. You and Big Government. The statists, the collectivists are the ones who treat people like children. Mackey has faith in his employees. He thinks they can solve their own problems and don't need a elitist bureaucrat to do it for them. Go give some money to charity and let's put the government out of business!
John Mackey donates his entire salary to charity. He has chosen to earn nothing. If he loses his job, he will still earn nothing. The only ones who will suffer are the workers who will join the ranks of the unemployed and the charities that benefit from his donation. Keep up the good work of being unthinkingly and viciously intolerant of differing viewpoints.
Mark Rosenthal is just another left-wing looney. I heard him on Laur Ingraham and he is absolutely cluess about business, politics and America. If more people had HSA's, we wouldn't have this alleged "health care" crisis. Read the constitution, read Ayn Rand, and read Walter Williams.
And stop boycotts, protests, etc...how many starving children have been fed by a protest?
80sVidLover of course this guy doesn't know anything about business. he's a "writer." he was probably an english major from a very expensive and exclusive university - typical snobby elitist. he can afford to be a lefty. when you are a rich trust fund baby it doesn't matter when your taxes go up - unlike the rest of us "common" little people.
you have no idea what your talking about do you. i dont just think what people tell me to think. thats called conservatives.
i have researched every thing i have ever said, unlike you which would be so stupid as to actually say the market creates wal-marts. no it doesn't, this countr has done fine for the last 200 years without walmart, but now take a look at any mainstreet in america. if you can find any with any lights on, or people in them.
moron, walmart would not survive if people did not like walmart. we also survived 200 years without cellphones, and a little more then 100 years without automobiles too. there was a market for cars, cellphones, just as there is a market for walmart. the market place made these choices.
the big box stores serve a need. just like all those chain restaurants, and other such crap.
ok there you are right that was a moronic argument I made. about we have survived without Wal-Mart. I should have made my point more clear. I dont mind saying that.
now what about the rest of it the facts. address those. knowledge doesnt exist in a vacuum but your view of the world does.
suppose your right and the market place choose walmart then the market place is wrong. the market places dont choose whats best and what works best. but then again after 50 years of economic reseach we have proven that the homo-economis is a incorrect model man and its actions. and also game theory lets not for get game theory
Indeed, the marketplace will decide who survives and who doesn't/ I know many small town, main street hardware stores that thrive, despite Walmart and other big boxes. These small businesses survive and prosper because they provide goods AND services better than the big boxes. If you satisfy your customers, they will return....
Incredible, you managed to ignored everything I wrote and stated. Then you proceeded to create logical fallacies. First the Irrelevant Conclusion by completely ignoring the data I have given and stating your premise anyways. Also a non sequitur because liberal big cities have nothing to do with wal mart and its proven effects on a local economy. You have to prove my data wrong first before you can state your first premise. If fact I dont really even know what your trying to say.
Oooh, blame Walmart - that's so original. If you knew any history you would know people have been moving away from CBD's for decades - see Latrobe, PA or WInston-Salem, NC or any other city. If you look at big cities, dare I say run by liberal mayors and liberal councils, you will find your blight, the result of tax-and-spend liberals, not Walmart.....
this one is just plain silly. if we were having a formal debate and being graded, you would have failed with what you just said
you made no sense. did i say anything about people moving away, what does that have to do with anything. thats actually a straw man, Fallacy of Accident, Irrelevant Conclusion, and a whole lol of stupid.
ayn rand really what has she ever said that can be proven empirically. and why is it when I ever try to debate someone about ayn rand they never read her books and when I show that altruism is human nature through science they call me a communist and run away
and by the way I make more money then most of you and I know how to laugh. she and all you randiods are humorless wierdos that dont know how to make money.
thesparitan lol! proven empirically. lol. um, there are different types of facts, not every argument is science based. using logic to reason to a probable conclusion does not necessarily involve empirical facts. philosophy and science are two different fields.
re: ayn, i've read quite a bit of her stuff and if truth be told she made one of the best arguments for abortion i have yet come across. the ideals of altruism are rooted in some sick christian idea of martyrdom. yuck!
yes and I hold deductive logic as the highest logic but facts are facts axioms are axioms. and you are a proven to be a consciously ignorant person. show me one scientific report that says altruism is not a human emotion that is formed from Darwinian forces in nature. we are designed to care, every psychologist, biologist, and scientist thats studied this would agree.
You did a good job decorating your mom's basement. Can I ask; do you guys actually understand what he wrote or do you just say "he's right wing, let's start another protest"? It's pretty close minded frankly. If you ask me Mackey is right on, should be applauded, treats his employees extremely well yet your conversation goes nowhere other than to point out that he is arguing from the right.
you tell them to use their dallors to vote with instead of the government to take care of them and then they do it
ok this is how capitalism works liberals i'll say this simple for you idiots
you buy what corporations tell you and you shut the fuck up ok. dont read or buy things that you think are moral and use your dallor to back up your beliefs MORONS
but conservatives can do it to compenies that dont have christmas on everything
Damn it! If liberals are so smart, how come they're always getting the wool pulled over their eyes? Here they help make Whole foods a huge success only to find out the owner is a conservative. He must be Bush in sheep's clothing. Now they have to get all grass-roots on his ass with free range egg on their faces.
More bad news breaking in the WSJ today. Crocs founder George Boedecker got drunk and was overheard saying he "wasn't sure" about all this global warming stuff. He went on to say "I think the sun might have an effect on climate."
THAT ASSHOLE!! We bought his stupid looking recycled rubber clogs so now he owes us!!! Doesn't he know the only idiots who'd wear them are us nutjobs??
more... So, before anyone else has the temerity to actually suggest that government isn't the answer the only solution is an immediate economic sabotage.
Here's the funny part, Whole Food's sales will rise, because the people who have to pay for this healthcare abomination are the same one's who actually pay for their own food and they'd like to have enough left to still do that.
The government can't give anything to anybody until they take it from someone else.
Margaret Thacher said it best "Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money."
The single least efficient, wasteful and mismanaged entity in the entire world (as measured by dollars wasted per member) is the US government.
To know that and to RESPECTFULLY offer other options for providing healthcare for Americans is CERTAINLY worthy of derision and instant boycott because you have absolutely no argument based in rational fact, only fear and intimidation. more...
dbvidblog Mackey "respectfully" said we have no human rights and let them eat cake... so whitewashing what he said makes it "ok", and we should just go about our daily strife and accept what Lord Mackey utters upon us, with hat in hand...
NO!!! I say, THIS IS AMERICA DAMN IT, AND WE THE PEOPLE SHALL PREVAIL. I have spoken and it is written.
Interesting, the party of inclusion and tolerance once again proves they are neither. God forbid anyone should have an idea that doesn't agree lock step with your Obamunist/totalitarianism/socialist view of government providing everything.
Boycotting is a prudent form of voting. Strategic spending in many cases can be equally (or) more effective than passively casting a ballot and sitting idle until the next election.
Conservatives often hail the market as a gage of whether or not a product/service should exist.
This is your opportunity to use this principal against them through a sustained, carefully planned boycott.
It is highly unusual for a CEO of a publicly traded company to make such a controversial statement in this political climate thus exposing themselves to a nationwide backlash.
It contradicts protocol on numerous levels. It is standard procedure to run a public statement internally through a series of departments; legal affairs, investor relations, and public relations department prior to being released.
I escapes me how John Mackey's statement survived this process with a seal of approval.
When a common person on the street has an opinion, there is little consequence, however when a CEO who has 'access to power', has an opinion, he has the means to influence public policy throughout the United States.
It is remarkably naive to interpret John Mackey's opinion as personal and benign.
You have to admit that it's weird that the CEO of a company that caters to liberals/progressives comes out with such a right wing position. It's sort of like Rush Limbaugh donating money to Al Franken's campaign.
The man has a right to his opinion. To boycott his restuarant is economic terrorism. You are attacking his employees more than you are attacking Mr. Mackey. He could walk away from Whole Foods tomorrow and be just fine. But the thousands of people that work for the company, and the suppliers that provide food and services to his company will pay a steep price if you are successful.
Boycotting is economic terrorism? So, what, we do not have a right to NOT be consumers of a business or product now? Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism, EVERYTHING is terrorism nowadays. Give me a freaking break. Not only is calling a boycott to be terrorism insulting to people who are randomly killed in acts of violence, but its insulting to the legacy of social movements. If you really think a boycott is economic terrorism, you need to see psychiatrist ASAP, because you are a nutcase.
One might find that Boycotting a company because it's CEO has an opinion is a good idea...Well, it's not. Not when it employs thousands of people and supports local growers and vendors. You're not hurting John Mackey, but who the company supports.
they should have boycotted his ass for making organics foods his monopoly
capitalism works if there is competition and so if it falls it will be replaced by smaller and better stores that service people the way that they want
Jesus Christ on a cracker I am a fucking socialist I find myself defending capitalism from conservatives
the insurance business is screwed up because of regulations, hell look at hong kong, or Singapore yes Singapore has a public option but less that 30% of the country is on it because the private system is superior and Singapore and Hong Kong has far less regulations in there entire financial system and there economies are far better off and much more stable than ours
Listening to these two dipshits is amusing. They both act like Whole Foods OWES something to so called "progressive" for them shopping at there store. No one forced liberals to shop there, they could have shopped some place else. The CEO had ONE opinion they didn't like and they're going nuts. Liberals are getting desperate.
xxashyy Boycotting is not an act of "desperation" it is an act of dissent. Until you realize dissent FOR THE PEOPLE is patriotic (not "Just say no" for the corporations) then you just don't get it.
Oh riggghttt The liberals are dissenting, and they're for the people? How are they for the people when they could hurt this business including the workers?
xxashyy That's brainswashed bullshit, that's like saying strikes hurt workers. The ONLY way businesses pay attention is when you hit them in their profits. The Whole Foods "team members" have to pay exorbitantly high deductibles before their "free" insurance ever kicks in!
Hey guys health care is expensive. Lets bureaucratize it even more than it already is and hope that prices go down. Hmm the government creates numerous barriers to medical students vying to become doctors and then the prices go up for medical care and competition diminishes. I have an idea! Lets just scrap all competition and just let the government monopolize health care! They have done a bang-up job with everything else like Katrina why not hand them over more control of health care?
I understand that. The AMA is a part of the government. Any entity that uses the power of the state to advance their own lot at the expense of everyone else I would consider a fault of government (bailouts, corporate welfare, licensure, protective tariffs etc.)
I have a crazy idea... get a job and pay for your own damn health care. That's how it was done in the old days and we were just fine. Now everyone wants free health care? who is paying for this??? "40 million uninsured"? how many of those people are illegal? how many of those people choose not to have insurance because they are young and would rather pay out of pocket? how come liberals never bring that up? tort reform anyone?...Put down the chips, turn off the t.v. and go for a damn walk!
It seems that you have a lot of misconceptions about the facts in this debate. I also get the impression that you tend to parrot other peoples arguments rather than form your own. Just realize that the people whom you are ape do not consider your best interest but their own.
watching two liberals will make a person go crazy,Is there some type of medicine that will cure them.whats funny is if this healthcare passes these 2 liberals will have to pay somewhere between 8,000 to 15,000 from there paychecks , and the government will take it from them to pay for thier obamacare,sorry no more ED-Hardy T-shirts .
last comment. Sooooo easy to get a facebook member. And, you know these twenty-somthings have no $ to shop at WFM anyway. Both you guys should have taken some econ classes, and not just art history. You might not be fo F&^%$ing stupid.
So, we know that the guy who started this "boycott" is actually an idiot. Thanks for the update. Both these guys are total jokes. Not "doctor material" :-)
If people talk to Whole Foods employees, and they share that with others, there will be no air left in the Obama / Leftist healthcare balloon. Healthcare at WFM is similar to some of the republican proposals that Pelosi will not allow to be introduced. Hey yo-yo'd. The truth is coming out
And just to let you idoits know, THE WHOLEFOODS FACEBOOK PAGE HAS 119,000 FRIENDS!!!!!! So take your 17,000 broke-ass-liberal commi Facebook Friends and go screw!
And stop shopping with your excess Government Student Loan Money!!!! That comes out of my taxes!!!
Mackey is one of the GOOD guys. His employees are WELL taken care of. He wants reform, just not OBAMA's reform. We need tort reform. We need insurance portability across state lines. Correct those issues first! -- I will continue to shop at Whole Foods...perhaps even moreso, now.
I have been a loyal customer to Whole Foods for years. There have been months on end that I spent 15 dollars for their salad bar nearly every day. I was once glad to pay a little extra simply for the pleasure of shopping at Whole Foods.
I am boycotting Whole Foods indefinitely. As much as I've appreciated their services, my personal ethics mean more to me. I cannot justify supporting an organization run by a man who thinks sick people don't deserve healthcare. It's morally bankrupt to me.
you dummy. I bet you can't even cook. That's why you eat at salad bars. I hope that every right winger starts shopping EXCLUSIVELY at WholeFoods, so they become bigger and stronger and HEALTHIER. It'll make bashing you fools into the stone age that much easier. You think that ANY solution is a good solution. Even if it means selling your soul to the Gov for free penicillin.
Please take the 15 dollars a day and get a edcation . Look in to Mackey and read and do some thinking for yourself and stop taking info from these two morons , Morally bankrup what a joke.
Anything when very narrowly defined is a monopoly. Thesparitan you have a monopoly on your own labour. Walmart is not a monopoly depending on how you define the market.
No. What I made was an obvious point which I shouldn't of had to make. Sadly, many people cannot grasp even basic truisms so it is essential that these basic points be brought up in discussion.
It is true that the definition of monopoly alters depending on how you define the market. A more vague description of the market is likely to prove that there is no monopoly whereas a narrow description of the market is likely to prove that there is a monopoly. Wal Mart affects a nations economy but it is definitely not a monopoly. The extent to which is affects the nations economy is positive, namely that it provides goods and services which people value more than their foregone dollars.
actually most economist and not just keynesian ones , believe that walmart is a negative to the economy because of the lack of diversity it causes
and some would say its promotion of namble and furry sex is economically effective in making us all homo erotic, anti intellectual conservatives ass bangers with the desire of blak cock
and if you plot this on a graph using cheese squars you can clearly see this in the demand side of the inflation curves. which are larger then your moms
thesparitan "diversity" ? what the F does dollars and cents have to do with "diversity"? what the F are you talking about? walmart exists because the market place wants it to exist. the market place determines such things, not some top down ideology that is spoon fed to college kids who have never had to meet a payroll. there is a difference btwn theory and practice. and that is the prob with the thinking class.
really well tell me why then One 200-employee Wal-Mart store may cost federal taxpayers $420,750 per year or that Wal-Mart subsidies cost least $1 billion in subsidies from state and local governments The most comprehensive study of Wal-Mart's impact showed that the stores reduced earnings per person by 5 percent. This 2005 study by an economist from the National Bureau of Economic Research. or 70% of the commodities sold in Wal-Mart are made in China.
Yeah, the whole thing about "you are hurting Whole Foods Employees" is bogus.
The demand isn't going away. We still need just as much groceries, just as many grocers, it's a question of where they are going to be. If Whole Foods doesn't provide the package we want, we'll go somewhere that does and so will the employees.
First: I agree w/UnderWeightHater. A boycott should not be something that targets a company for the opinions of an individual within the company, but rather for what the company itself does.
Second: Political objectives like healthcare and environment do not have to be mutually exclusive.
Third: Mackey's healthcare model is excellent, and the Op-Ed makes suggestions to the effect of how to make our current system work as opposed to handing the reins to government. They are very valid ideas.
CEO Mackie of Whole Foods stole the co-op grocery concept and vibe, and pasted that veneer on top of a Walmart corporate structure. It's a fraud to suck in progressives. Stay away!
Just for Ss & Gs, how many people does Whole Foods employ? And have you taken the time to talk with any Whole Foods Employees about how they are treated?
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i'm not sold on this concept. you should boycott a company based on their actual business practices, not because you dont like the attitude or politics of its leadership.
if you knew the politics of the guy who sells lettuce at the farmers market you might have to boycott him too. it only makes sense to do if you know their competitors are somehow better.
also if you shop somewhere because it gives you an internal political reward of special feelings... you are screwed.
If the Chairman and CEO of Whole Foods wants to use that name recognition and clout to leverage his political ideals, that's his choice.
He didn't make some anonymous post somewhere (like he did with the Wild Oats stock scandal - in case anyone has forgotten) he is using his company affiliation as political collateral. He did it deliberately, you don't need to cry any tears for him if it ends up costing him, he's a big boy and decides for himself what he wants to invest.
The truth in this country is that Americans need to stop expecting doctors to solve all your problems with a pill. Sometimes, you do get sick or worse.
Whole Foods is a good place to buy your groceries and local products. Responsibility for your body should be what the individuals do.
So, what is the truth about Whole Foods? The truth is that people need to stop eating garbage like Mc Donalds, Burger King, Wendys, etc. Where is the protest on these places? Joke.
Greenvegan828 11 months ago
YEAH WELL NOW WHOLE FOODS JUST SOLD OUT TO MONSATO.look up whole foods on youtube right now
jacmunbong 1 year ago
Whole Foods also hired 99% of the Wild Oats employees...idiot
franknaps 1 year ago
Wait Until Obama care becomes health care at gun point. If everyone bought Whole Foods we will become healthy..
towandacreek 2 years ago
when i used the insurance provided by whole foods it never was covered & i had to use my FSA account to cover the cost so if u look at it ur paying out of pocket from the money you put in for the FSA account yes u get a deductible but your still paying ur bill not throught the insurance but outta the money u work fror throughout the years
goldentrack80 2 years ago
The Whole Foods system works better, because it gives more money to the employees instead of the Insurance companies.-FSA money can be spent on many types of preventative health-care products. Plus there's nothing wrong with getting people to spend more carefully
I'm sorry that history and economics don't agree with your "Progressive" Dogma.
hoppinglark 2 years ago
And, any other troll-like comments related to this channel will be ignored. And, boyz, Boycotts are actually GIRLY, wouldn't you agree?
forwardmover 2 years ago
Postscript. Thanks to the people like the self-serving dufae hehind this channel, many many more people know about Mackeycare, which is a republican proposal. Good job, Dufae! You silly schills.
forwardmover 2 years ago
and lets not forget what a big liberal democratic party Criminal Berneee Madoff was
forwardmover 2 years ago
forwardmover yeah, Madoff is in prison, with Abramoff , however Amway pyramid scam founder Devos is footloose and fancy free - sometimes it actually pays to donate to the GOP , no?
Yankhadenough 2 years ago
Post Post Script.
Or do you freeload, disappearimng and then reappearing?
forwardmover 2 years ago
Postscripts
HeeBros .... you smart guys, when you go to a party, do you all put money into a pot (socialist thing) to buy beer and drugs, or do you do the selfish libertarian thang ... the BYOB?
Heebros, What say you, ????
forwardmover 2 years ago
Hey dufae (plural for dufus). Yo boycott aint workin? If fact, I hear its having the opposite effect.
Some of yo people in the videos are soooooo stupid. RaDickly dumb
And Dufus, here's a "social safety net". Its called a JOBBBB
forwardmover 2 years ago
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1978raven 2 years ago
for example when I went to synagogue for High holidays this year, lets just say that I had one of the very few Pontiacs in the lot:-)
stljoey 2 years ago
well.....being that I am Jewish...I have first hand knowledge...I would say 80% or more Jews in West county St. Louis drive "nice cars"!!
stljoey 2 years ago
All people who boycott whole foods over this are epic losers
axe863 2 years ago
axe863 no, those who support corporate crime are the real losers
Yankhadenough 2 years ago
Corporate crime? What is their crime? Free speech that contradicts yours. The free speech of one person in the corp. I pay a premium at Starbucks. I know theyre liberals but I enjoy their product and that they give back to the community. Short of a numerous proportion of Starbucks employees stating that republicans are vile human beings, I will continue to go to Starbucks. You are so infantile.
axe863 2 years ago
How about this? The vast majority of the human population barely eeks by at current food prices. Imagine the stag-flationary pressures caused by a combination public option/ cap and trade bill. Millions will starve to death every year (3rd world countries) because of the inefficient allocation of resources. Talk about Pareto inefficient policies. The ceo was advocating personal responsibility because even your draconian vision has zero chance of curving the long run cost curve.
axe863 2 years ago
axe863 Our nation is worse off in our healthcare "insurance system" than any other Western Industrialized Nation, in fact we rank number 37, France ranks as number ONE . What's the difference? We are the only one without Universal Healthcare for our citizens. 'Nuff said.
Yankhadenough 2 years ago
America in that same report ranks number 1 in response but because that is only weighted at less than 20% and equality of care is weighted at over 50%, they are not ranked higher. Even countries with horrific care but equality of horrific care rank high. Note Cuba. Nuff Said!!!!
axe863 2 years ago
axe863 you didn't know? Cuba's infant mortality rate is LOWER than the USA, and they have less resources AND a US embargo against them... AND Cuba's overall life expentancy is HIGHER than the USA ... hmmm, Cubans overthrew a fascist Batista but never overthrew Castro.
Yankhadenough 2 years ago
Fun Fact: Did you know they dont count infant mortality in the same way America does?
Btw, if its such a paradise why dont you move there. They have 1950s level saturation of cars, tvs, refrigerators etc. It is a backwards country.
axe863 2 years ago
In California the secretary of state will let you create your own corporation, for just $100. You can do this and commit corporate crimes. Or get a job
forwardmover 2 years ago
forwardmover I have a job. Are you suggesting I work for corporate crime?
Yankhadenough 2 years ago
If you had ANY kind of a real job you probably wouldn't be "working " for the owner of this silly channel. later. and, are you surprised Cubans are healthier. When you have no money for McDonals, a diet of pretty much rice and beans WILL keep you thin AND increase your impovershed life. This is what Cubans tell me.
forwardmover 2 years ago
lets look at this from a different perspective....the Jewish people love BMWs and Mercedes Benz, etc. (me being one of them)....who were these cars created by....the Germans, Adolf Hitler type, yet Jewish people still drive around in these kinds of cars everyday no matter what the Germans "stood for", etc.
stljoey 2 years ago
Whole Foods is GREAT.
Fuck Obama!
Fuck Mark Rosenthal!
HuckMeHard 2 years ago
Whole Foods was nearly empty this evening in the Fairfax District here in Los Angeles.
noezway47 2 years ago
Los Angeles is a city filled with overly sensitive marxist douche bags.
No surprise they would get their panties in a knot over some CEO exercising his 1st Amendment rights.
I'm saddened that those wild fires didn't spread to Hollywood.
HuckMeHard 2 years ago
HuckMeHard
You obviously fail to understand how power operates within the United States? A dupe like yourself on the street who yells out his opinion is of little consequence, however when John Mackey states a position, he has the power to enact his ideas and influence others beyond his immediate circle of influence.
noezway47 2 years ago
Really? How so?
If you're influenced by what a CEO has to say then I would call you a gullible sheep!
Think for yourself.
HuckMeHard 2 years ago
No my friend, I'm certainly not influenced by CEOs on this end. You however are a bewildered farm animal who passively subscribes to corporate sponsored PR messages via TV and radio.
Just curious...how many books have you read in the past 5 years?
Video game manuals don't count.
noezway47 2 years ago
HuckMeHard that's why most of us are excercising our Constitutional 1st Amendment Rights to speak with our spending habits... which we won't be doing at Whole Foods anymore
Yankhadenough 2 years ago
...and all because the CEO has an opinion?
That is really fucking stupid.
HuckMeHard 2 years ago
i love whole foods
omgitsNidia 2 years ago
mark doesn't know what he is talking about and neither do the YTs. of course he's in Massachusetts. what else would you expect from an east coast snot?
i like the lanny davis comments. because, you know, if someone disagrees with you then he or she is just human detritus. you wouldn't want to actually discuss the issues; that would be to difficult
you guys really don't get it. how can this gov serve millions more people, without spending more money? hello? the 10 yr deficit is 14.4 trillion!
magdamagda999 2 years ago
You are so compassionate, Mark. You and Big Government. The statists, the collectivists are the ones who treat people like children. Mackey has faith in his employees. He thinks they can solve their own problems and don't need a elitist bureaucrat to do it for them. Go give some money to charity and let's put the government out of business!
carrolljackson 2 years ago
John Mackey donates his entire salary to charity. He has chosen to earn nothing. If he loses his job, he will still earn nothing. The only ones who will suffer are the workers who will join the ranks of the unemployed and the charities that benefit from his donation. Keep up the good work of being unthinkingly and viciously intolerant of differing viewpoints.
ItsTime2Awaken 2 years ago
Mark Rosenthal is just another left-wing looney. I heard him on Laur Ingraham and he is absolutely cluess about business, politics and America. If more people had HSA's, we wouldn't have this alleged "health care" crisis. Read the constitution, read Ayn Rand, and read Walter Williams.
And stop boycotts, protests, etc...how many starving children have been fed by a protest?
80sVidLover 2 years ago 2
80sVidLover of course this guy doesn't know anything about business. he's a "writer." he was probably an english major from a very expensive and exclusive university - typical snobby elitist. he can afford to be a lefty. when you are a rich trust fund baby it doesn't matter when your taxes go up - unlike the rest of us "common" little people.
magdamagda999 2 years ago
you have no idea what your talking about do you. i dont just think what people tell me to think. thats called conservatives.
i have researched every thing i have ever said, unlike you which would be so stupid as to actually say the market creates wal-marts. no it doesn't, this countr has done fine for the last 200 years without walmart, but now take a look at any mainstreet in america. if you can find any with any lights on, or people in them.
thesparitan 2 years ago
thesparitan
moron, walmart would not survive if people did not like walmart. we also survived 200 years without cellphones, and a little more then 100 years without automobiles too. there was a market for cars, cellphones, just as there is a market for walmart. the market place made these choices.
the big box stores serve a need. just like all those chain restaurants, and other such crap.
magdamagda999 2 years ago
ok there you are right that was a moronic argument I made. about we have survived without Wal-Mart. I should have made my point more clear. I dont mind saying that.
now what about the rest of it the facts. address those. knowledge doesnt exist in a vacuum but your view of the world does.
thesparitan 2 years ago
suppose your right and the market place choose walmart then the market place is wrong. the market places dont choose whats best and what works best. but then again after 50 years of economic reseach we have proven that the homo-economis is a incorrect model man and its actions. and also game theory lets not for get game theory
thesparitan 2 years ago
Indeed, the marketplace will decide who survives and who doesn't/ I know many small town, main street hardware stores that thrive, despite Walmart and other big boxes. These small businesses survive and prosper because they provide goods AND services better than the big boxes. If you satisfy your customers, they will return....
80sVidLover 2 years ago
Incredible, you managed to ignored everything I wrote and stated. Then you proceeded to create logical fallacies. First the Irrelevant Conclusion by completely ignoring the data I have given and stating your premise anyways. Also a non sequitur because liberal big cities have nothing to do with wal mart and its proven effects on a local economy. You have to prove my data wrong first before you can state your first premise. If fact I dont really even know what your trying to say.
thesparitan 2 years ago
Oooh, blame Walmart - that's so original. If you knew any history you would know people have been moving away from CBD's for decades - see Latrobe, PA or WInston-Salem, NC or any other city. If you look at big cities, dare I say run by liberal mayors and liberal councils, you will find your blight, the result of tax-and-spend liberals, not Walmart.....
80sVidLover 2 years ago
this one is just plain silly. if we were having a formal debate and being graded, you would have failed with what you just said
you made no sense. did i say anything about people moving away, what does that have to do with anything. thats actually a straw man, Fallacy of Accident, Irrelevant Conclusion, and a whole lol of stupid.
i dont even know what to say to you
thesparitan 2 years ago
wow your a moron
ayn rand really what has she ever said that can be proven empirically. and why is it when I ever try to debate someone about ayn rand they never read her books and when I show that altruism is human nature through science they call me a communist and run away
and by the way I make more money then most of you and I know how to laugh. she and all you randiods are humorless wierdos that dont know how to make money.
thesparitan 2 years ago
thesparitan lol! proven empirically. lol. um, there are different types of facts, not every argument is science based. using logic to reason to a probable conclusion does not necessarily involve empirical facts. philosophy and science are two different fields.
re: ayn, i've read quite a bit of her stuff and if truth be told she made one of the best arguments for abortion i have yet come across. the ideals of altruism are rooted in some sick christian idea of martyrdom. yuck!
magdamagda999 2 years ago
yes and I hold deductive logic as the highest logic but facts are facts axioms are axioms. and you are a proven to be a consciously ignorant person. show me one scientific report that says altruism is not a human emotion that is formed from Darwinian forces in nature. we are designed to care, every psychologist, biologist, and scientist thats studied this would agree.
thesparitan 2 years ago
You did a good job decorating your mom's basement. Can I ask; do you guys actually understand what he wrote or do you just say "he's right wing, let's start another protest"? It's pretty close minded frankly. If you ask me Mackey is right on, should be applauded, treats his employees extremely well yet your conversation goes nowhere other than to point out that he is arguing from the right.
THEECF 2 years ago
LULZ
thesparitan 2 years ago
I understand the Boycott is picking up significant momentum in Los Angeles.
Supporters are opting for Erewhon Natural Foods Market and Trader Joe's
noezway47 2 years ago
SEE THIS IS WHAT I HATE ABOUT LIBERALS
you tell them to use their dallors to vote with instead of the government to take care of them and then they do it
ok this is how capitalism works liberals i'll say this simple for you idiots
you buy what corporations tell you and you shut the fuck up ok. dont read or buy things that you think are moral and use your dallor to back up your beliefs MORONS
but conservatives can do it to compenies that dont have christmas on everything
get it
thesparitan 2 years ago
Damn it! If liberals are so smart, how come they're always getting the wool pulled over their eyes? Here they help make Whole foods a huge success only to find out the owner is a conservative. He must be Bush in sheep's clothing. Now they have to get all grass-roots on his ass with free range egg on their faces.
StalinsLoveChild 2 years ago
Your just an asshole!
atrayu90602 2 years ago
I was an asshole, now I'm a progressive.
More bad news breaking in the WSJ today. Crocs founder George Boedecker got drunk and was overheard saying he "wasn't sure" about all this global warming stuff. He went on to say "I think the sun might have an effect on climate."
THAT ASSHOLE!! We bought his stupid looking recycled rubber clogs so now he owes us!!! Doesn't he know the only idiots who'd wear them are us nutjobs??
BOYCOTT CROCS NOW!!!
StalinsLoveChild 2 years ago
thats funny
more bad news breaking walmart supports obama plans for single payer system
god dam liberals once they get a little money they start caring and shit. boycott anyone that goes to walmart is a faggot and commie bastard
i wont never buy a gun and beer from walmart again. low prices i always thought that sounded like socialism too me
thesparitan 2 years ago
Walmart is in favor of dumping the health plan they offer and kicking their employees into the government plan?
I'm SHOCKED!! I thought Walmart cared about their employees. Go figure.
StalinsLoveChild 2 years ago
yes liberals are dumb and conservatives are the genius
SARAH PALIN FOR PRESIDENT
2013
LOL
thesparitan 2 years ago
No shit hey? The more Obama flaps his gums the more prophetic Palin sounds.
StalinsLoveChild 2 years ago
"Shout out to Maggie Thatcher..."
Another pseudo-intellectual, fascist control-freak lashing out at things he doesn't understand.
You don't even come close to outlining "his plan" let alone proving its flaws.
This is an absurd joke.
TheonlyROXDOG 2 years ago
more... So, before anyone else has the temerity to actually suggest that government isn't the answer the only solution is an immediate economic sabotage.
Here's the funny part, Whole Food's sales will rise, because the people who have to pay for this healthcare abomination are the same one's who actually pay for their own food and they'd like to have enough left to still do that.
The government can't give anything to anybody until they take it from someone else.
dbvidblog 2 years ago
more...
Margaret Thacher said it best "Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money."
The single least efficient, wasteful and mismanaged entity in the entire world (as measured by dollars wasted per member) is the US government.
To know that and to RESPECTFULLY offer other options for providing healthcare for Americans is CERTAINLY worthy of derision and instant boycott because you have absolutely no argument based in rational fact, only fear and intimidation. more...
dbvidblog 2 years ago
dbvidblog Mackey "respectfully" said we have no human rights and let them eat cake... so whitewashing what he said makes it "ok", and we should just go about our daily strife and accept what Lord Mackey utters upon us, with hat in hand...
NO!!! I say, THIS IS AMERICA DAMN IT, AND WE THE PEOPLE SHALL PREVAIL. I have spoken and it is written.
Yankhadenough 2 years ago
Interesting, the party of inclusion and tolerance once again proves they are neither. God forbid anyone should have an idea that doesn't agree lock step with your Obamunist/totalitarianism/socialist view of government providing everything.
dbvidblog 2 years ago
Boycotting is a prudent form of voting. Strategic spending in many cases can be equally (or) more effective than passively casting a ballot and sitting idle until the next election.
Conservatives often hail the market as a gage of whether or not a product/service should exist.
This is your opportunity to use this principal against them through a sustained, carefully planned boycott.
logtype47 2 years ago
It is highly unusual for a CEO of a publicly traded company to make such a controversial statement in this political climate thus exposing themselves to a nationwide backlash.
It contradicts protocol on numerous levels. It is standard procedure to run a public statement internally through a series of departments; legal affairs, investor relations, and public relations department prior to being released.
I escapes me how John Mackey's statement survived this process with a seal of approval.
logtype47 2 years ago
When a common person on the street has an opinion, there is little consequence, however when a CEO who has 'access to power', has an opinion, he has the means to influence public policy throughout the United States.
It is remarkably naive to interpret John Mackey's opinion as personal and benign.
logtype47 2 years ago
Whole Foods sells food, not political opinions...you liberals are pathetic.
OmarThePug 2 years ago
You would think that was true.... It just goes to show how ignorant you are ,and, how little research you did on the topic. Now thats pathetic!
Go fuck your Mother Now!
atrayu90602 2 years ago
OK
why did you hear kroger is calling christmas xmas oh no
BOYCOTT
what The American Family Association is boycotting McDonald's in response to its support for the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
if you go to mcdonalds your a fag
but yes liberals you are being stupid boycotting a store for political reasons
thesparitan 2 years ago
You have to admit that it's weird that the CEO of a company that caters to liberals/progressives comes out with such a right wing position. It's sort of like Rush Limbaugh donating money to Al Franken's campaign.
MrOldSlacker 2 years ago
The man has a right to his opinion. To boycott his restuarant is economic terrorism. You are attacking his employees more than you are attacking Mr. Mackey. He could walk away from Whole Foods tomorrow and be just fine. But the thousands of people that work for the company, and the suppliers that provide food and services to his company will pay a steep price if you are successful.
I hope and pray you fail in this effort.
penman2005 2 years ago
Boycotting is economic terrorism? So, what, we do not have a right to NOT be consumers of a business or product now? Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism, EVERYTHING is terrorism nowadays. Give me a freaking break. Not only is calling a boycott to be terrorism insulting to people who are randomly killed in acts of violence, but its insulting to the legacy of social movements. If you really think a boycott is economic terrorism, you need to see psychiatrist ASAP, because you are a nutcase.
Casadh 2 years ago
The CEO's comments make me want to shop there. However, the prices there make me stay home.
FreeBumbo 2 years ago
One might find that Boycotting a company because it's CEO has an opinion is a good idea...Well, it's not. Not when it employs thousands of people and supports local growers and vendors. You're not hurting John Mackey, but who the company supports.
jedjethro 2 years ago 3
they should have boycotted his ass for making organics foods his monopoly
capitalism works if there is competition and so if it falls it will be replaced by smaller and better stores that service people the way that they want
Jesus Christ on a cracker I am a fucking socialist I find myself defending capitalism from conservatives
you will live in strange times
thesparitan 2 years ago
whats wrong with a opt-in tax
the insurance business is screwed up because of regulations, hell look at hong kong, or Singapore yes Singapore has a public option but less that 30% of the country is on it because the private system is superior and Singapore and Hong Kong has far less regulations in there entire financial system and there economies are far better off and much more stable than ours
xfvkemosx 2 years ago
Listening to these two dipshits is amusing. They both act like Whole Foods OWES something to so called "progressive" for them shopping at there store. No one forced liberals to shop there, they could have shopped some place else. The CEO had ONE opinion they didn't like and they're going nuts. Liberals are getting desperate.
xxashyy 2 years ago
xxashyy Boycotting is not an act of "desperation" it is an act of dissent. Until you realize dissent FOR THE PEOPLE is patriotic (not "Just say no" for the corporations) then you just don't get it.
Yankhadenough 2 years ago
Oh riggghttt The liberals are dissenting, and they're for the people? How are they for the people when they could hurt this business including the workers?
xxashyy 2 years ago
xxashyy That's brainswashed bullshit, that's like saying strikes hurt workers. The ONLY way businesses pay attention is when you hit them in their profits. The Whole Foods "team members" have to pay exorbitantly high deductibles before their "free" insurance ever kicks in!
Yankhadenough 2 years ago
I wonder if we can call the liberal boy cotters a "mob" that's threatening Whole Foods CEO and his workers?
xxashyy 2 years ago
Hey guys health care is expensive. Lets bureaucratize it even more than it already is and hope that prices go down. Hmm the government creates numerous barriers to medical students vying to become doctors and then the prices go up for medical care and competition diminishes. I have an idea! Lets just scrap all competition and just let the government monopolize health care! They have done a bang-up job with everything else like Katrina why not hand them over more control of health care?
jman196 2 years ago
its not the government doing it its the AMA that is. the government is a tool it has no morals like fire or a hammer
thesparitan 2 years ago
I understand that. The AMA is a part of the government. Any entity that uses the power of the state to advance their own lot at the expense of everyone else I would consider a fault of government (bailouts, corporate welfare, licensure, protective tariffs etc.)
jman196 2 years ago
I have a crazy idea... get a job and pay for your own damn health care. That's how it was done in the old days and we were just fine. Now everyone wants free health care? who is paying for this??? "40 million uninsured"? how many of those people are illegal? how many of those people choose not to have insurance because they are young and would rather pay out of pocket? how come liberals never bring that up? tort reform anyone?...Put down the chips, turn off the t.v. and go for a damn walk!
tonyg0123 2 years ago
It seems that you have a lot of misconceptions about the facts in this debate. I also get the impression that you tend to parrot other peoples arguments rather than form your own. Just realize that the people whom you are ape do not consider your best interest but their own.
MCG0077 2 years ago
watching two liberals will make a person go crazy,Is there some type of medicine that will cure them.whats funny is if this healthcare passes these 2 liberals will have to pay somewhere between 8,000 to 15,000 from there paychecks , and the government will take it from them to pay for thier obamacare,sorry no more ED-Hardy T-shirts .
victormyers1 2 years ago
last comment. Sooooo easy to get a facebook member. And, you know these twenty-somthings have no $ to shop at WFM anyway. Both you guys should have taken some econ classes, and not just art history. You might not be fo F&^%$ing stupid.
forwardmover 2 years ago
So, we know that the guy who started this "boycott" is actually an idiot. Thanks for the update. Both these guys are total jokes. Not "doctor material" :-)
forwardmover 2 years ago
And the owner of Whole Foods is a doctor?
DCFella 2 years ago
Buffoon, if you go on the trip instead of going to the doctor, you would real dumb, and that would be your fault. Can you accept that responsibility?
forwardmover 2 years ago
If people talk to Whole Foods employees, and they share that with others, there will be no air left in the Obama / Leftist healthcare balloon. Healthcare at WFM is similar to some of the republican proposals that Pelosi will not allow to be introduced. Hey yo-yo'd. The truth is coming out
forwardmover 2 years ago
FUCK YOU ALL.
I'm shopping there TOMORROW!
And just to let you idoits know, THE WHOLEFOODS FACEBOOK PAGE HAS 119,000 FRIENDS!!!!!! So take your 17,000 broke-ass-liberal commi Facebook Friends and go screw!
And stop shopping with your excess Government Student Loan Money!!!! That comes out of my taxes!!!
m1ndcontroller 2 years ago
The real Boycott should be on Obama & Co.
backlighting 2 years ago
why?
david3188col 2 years ago
Mackey is one of the GOOD guys. His employees are WELL taken care of. He wants reform, just not OBAMA's reform. We need tort reform. We need insurance portability across state lines. Correct those issues first! -- I will continue to shop at Whole Foods...perhaps even moreso, now.
JHJennings 2 years ago 3
I will CONTINUE TO SHOP AT WHOLE FOODS!
THE BOYCOTT IS A CROCK OF DUNG.
NoCensorshipYT 2 years ago 3
If you are going to do your business on the basis of ethics, you have to behave ethically in ALL your dealings.
dangerouslytalented 2 years ago
yeah BOYCOTTING KICKS ASS
Ch4rl3magn3 2 years ago
I have been a loyal customer to Whole Foods for years. There have been months on end that I spent 15 dollars for their salad bar nearly every day. I was once glad to pay a little extra simply for the pleasure of shopping at Whole Foods.
I am boycotting Whole Foods indefinitely. As much as I've appreciated their services, my personal ethics mean more to me. I cannot justify supporting an organization run by a man who thinks sick people don't deserve healthcare. It's morally bankrupt to me.
WellIAMScottish 2 years ago
you dummy. I bet you can't even cook. That's why you eat at salad bars. I hope that every right winger starts shopping EXCLUSIVELY at WholeFoods, so they become bigger and stronger and HEALTHIER. It'll make bashing you fools into the stone age that much easier. You think that ANY solution is a good solution. Even if it means selling your soul to the Gov for free penicillin.
m1ndcontroller 2 years ago
Please take the 15 dollars a day and get a edcation . Look in to Mackey and read and do some thinking for yourself and stop taking info from these two morons , Morally bankrup what a joke.
ekjohndeer 2 years ago
i have and he is a good man but his compeny is a monoply and liberals are lazy cowards for not fighting this sooner
and whlie i think the starting reasons for the boycott are not the best one i support this boycott
if you believe in capitalism you need to boycott walmart because its a monoply
thesparitan 2 years ago
Anything when very narrowly defined is a monopoly. Thesparitan you have a monopoly on your own labour. Walmart is not a monopoly depending on how you define the market.
jman196 2 years ago
CONGRATULATIONS
you just made a retarded point
thesparitan 2 years ago
No. What I made was an obvious point which I shouldn't of had to make. Sadly, many people cannot grasp even basic truisms so it is essential that these basic points be brought up in discussion.
jman196 2 years ago
you seem intelligent but when you state your opinions the effect is spoiled
i have a monoply over my labor ok yes but that is not effecting a nations economy
wal mart is effective a nations economy
thesparitan 2 years ago
It is true that the definition of monopoly alters depending on how you define the market. A more vague description of the market is likely to prove that there is no monopoly whereas a narrow description of the market is likely to prove that there is a monopoly. Wal Mart affects a nations economy but it is definitely not a monopoly. The extent to which is affects the nations economy is positive, namely that it provides goods and services which people value more than their foregone dollars.
jman196 2 years ago
actually most economist and not just keynesian ones , believe that walmart is a negative to the economy because of the lack of diversity it causes
and some would say its promotion of namble and furry sex is economically effective in making us all homo erotic, anti intellectual conservatives ass bangers with the desire of blak cock
and if you plot this on a graph using cheese squars you can clearly see this in the demand side of the inflation curves. which are larger then your moms
thesparitan 2 years ago
thesparitan "diversity" ? what the F does dollars and cents have to do with "diversity"? what the F are you talking about? walmart exists because the market place wants it to exist. the market place determines such things, not some top down ideology that is spoon fed to college kids who have never had to meet a payroll. there is a difference btwn theory and practice. and that is the prob with the thinking class.
magdamagda999 2 years ago
really well tell me why then One 200-employee Wal-Mart store may cost federal taxpayers $420,750 per year or that Wal-Mart subsidies cost least $1 billion in subsidies from state and local governments The most comprehensive study of Wal-Mart's impact showed that the stores reduced earnings per person by 5 percent. This 2005 study by an economist from the National Bureau of Economic Research. or 70% of the commodities sold in Wal-Mart are made in China.
thesparitan 2 years ago
Inductive logic and deductive logic are best served together and in harmony and I an a anti-theist hardcore atheist
Ill tell you what prove me wrong. Debate me and see if you can prove your argument
thesparitan 2 years ago
Yeah, the whole thing about "you are hurting Whole Foods Employees" is bogus.
The demand isn't going away. We still need just as much groceries, just as many grocers, it's a question of where they are going to be. If Whole Foods doesn't provide the package we want, we'll go somewhere that does and so will the employees.
TheGiantRobot 2 years ago
First: I agree w/UnderWeightHater. A boycott should not be something that targets a company for the opinions of an individual within the company, but rather for what the company itself does.
Second: Political objectives like healthcare and environment do not have to be mutually exclusive.
Third: Mackey's healthcare model is excellent, and the Op-Ed makes suggestions to the effect of how to make our current system work as opposed to handing the reins to government. They are very valid ideas.
whoiswhite 2 years ago
CEO Mackie of Whole Foods stole the co-op grocery concept and vibe, and pasted that veneer on top of a Walmart corporate structure. It's a fraud to suck in progressives. Stay away!
audadvnc 2 years ago
This guy's an idiot.
DertBagg 2 years ago
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fuck that I will shop at whole foods, the CEO is right on.
BIGLOU88 2 years ago
Just for Ss & Gs, how many people does Whole Foods employ? And have you taken the time to talk with any Whole Foods Employees about how they are treated?
Unklebillybob 2 years ago
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the blind leading the jackasses between these two
DominationCorp 2 years ago
what a couple of pathetic Monsanto provocateurs.
jaba987 2 years ago
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i'm not sold on this concept. you should boycott a company based on their actual business practices, not because you dont like the attitude or politics of its leadership.
if you knew the politics of the guy who sells lettuce at the farmers market you might have to boycott him too. it only makes sense to do if you know their competitors are somehow better.
also if you shop somewhere because it gives you an internal political reward of special feelings... you are screwed.
underweightHater 2 years ago
If the Chairman and CEO of Whole Foods wants to use that name recognition and clout to leverage his political ideals, that's his choice.
He didn't make some anonymous post somewhere (like he did with the Wild Oats stock scandal - in case anyone has forgotten) he is using his company affiliation as political collateral. He did it deliberately, you don't need to cry any tears for him if it ends up costing him, he's a big boy and decides for himself what he wants to invest.
TheGiantRobot 2 years ago
Blah, I just stick with Kashi foods. Switched my diet to them recently and feel so much better health wise.
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