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So long, Whole Foods

Ken Miller

Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)

Gee, and all this time I thought the role of CEOs was to earn ridiculously high salaries and cut corners to make the stockholders happy. Turns out they’ve also got political leanings and are none too shy in sharing said views with their customers.

So from someone who actually works for a living, here’s a fond goodbye to Whole Foods. I’ll miss your fields of salad toppings, your endless olive selection and your pizza bar—truly things of beauty, even if they aren’t guaranteed to make you any healthier than the guy eating at, say, Evo’s, Panera or Settebello, three places that, to my knowledge, haven’t yet told me how to feel about Obama’s health-care plan.

Most of all, I’ll miss the halcyon days of wandering through your aisles, safe in the knowledge that the only thing you were trying to shove down my throat was yummy hummus.

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I've got your back, Mr. Miller. John Mackey acts more like a despotic ruler than a corporate CEO and had I known of his peculiar views regarding illness (that interestingly enough correlate with increasing his profit margin), I would never have shopped there. His op-ed in the Wall Street Journal was disturbing but nothing compared to my chagrin when I realized I owned shares of Whole Foods. I sold them that day, joined the boycott and urge every reader to shop Trader Joe's, Fresh & Easy, Sunflower Market or any of the numerous other purveyors of good food in our valley where all you get with your groceries is reasonable cost.

Posted by: Suzie_McKay on 8/27/09 at 5:11 a.m. (Suggest removal)

But it's ok for celebrities to air their opinion. You liberals are the most intolerant people I know.

Posted by: neven1978 on 8/28/09 at 6:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)

wait...wait...a store is closing?....or all of whole foods is closing?? this is awful, heading to google...

Posted by: Rick Lax (Staff) on 8/28/09 at 11:05 a.m. (Suggest removal)

No - Whole Foods is not closing. Protesting the various wars is no longer vogue so to satisfy their need to protest something, they're protesting Whole Foods because its CEO actually has an opinion on something other than running Whole Foods.

Grow up people.

Posted by: wdevine on 8/29/09 at 10:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Best part about Mackey's "Obamacare" article? The fact that he actually pinpoints some of the real problems with the current system: Portability, taxation, competition, and more. These are the real topics that need to be discussed. In fact, I would say this is probably the most damaging Op-Ed posted by anyone in the Wall Street Journal in a long time. No wonder the left (probably only the extreme) have decided to boycott his company. It was a strong right hook this bill did not see coming.

Let's not forget how interesting it was to hear about how the employees in the UK, even with the NHS, happen to want a system where they can earn dollars for healthcare. Let's not forget the compelling argument about the "right for food," which we do not have, but definitely don't complain about.

As the boycott of Whole Foods grows, others embrace the company, discovering the great foods it offers.

Posted by: Buckwylds on 8/31/09 at 9:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)

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