This is from a Durham, NC neighborhood email distribution list. Whole Foods is NOT backing down but rather they appear to be in anti-health care battle mode.
With the idiot Whole Foods CEO john Mackey penning his hyper-conservative screed in the Wall Street Journal, is anyone surprised that they're kicking health care canvassers out of their parking lots?!
It doesn't sound like these folks were even mentioning the boycott but rather were only getting signatures for health care reform!
From: [Name removed]
To: whhna-list@rtpnet..org
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:46:35 PM
Subject: [whhna-list] Boycott Wholefoods
A Duke primary care physician and I were asked to leave Broad Street Whole Foods Parking area when we were collecting signatures in support of health care reform. In the 13 weeks organizing this area leading up to the November election, the only other business in Durham that Whole Pay Check was in company with was Walmart.
Meanwhile the boycott is mentioned by a mainstream media outlet. Granted we're talking ABC news who calls one Whole Foods shopper a "health food fanatic," nevertheless ABC news is helping along the boycott by spreading the news:
Health Care Stirs Up Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, Customers Boycott Organic Grocery Store
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.
"I will never shop there again," vowed Joshua, a 45-year-old blogger, who asked that his last name not be published.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.
The subtitle to this article says "Branding Experts Say CEOs Should Stay Quiet When It Comes to Politics"... No duh.
John Mackey is an idiot.