Whole Foods Boycott: 20,000 Facebook Members.

Mackey offers his two cents, buys boycott

August 19, 2009 in news with 3 CommentsTags: Economist, free market, market justice
Mr. Mackey gets more than he bargained for, and now one of several reasons why the boycott of Whole Foods will work:

From the Economist Magazine, August 18, 2009:
It is no good arguing that consumers are being unreasonable in boycotting the firm: Mr Mackey, who often celebrates the authority of the market as a mechanism for allowing people to vote with their money, knows as well as anyone that they are entitled to spend their hard-earned cash as they please. Customers are free to take their business elsewhere if they don’t like the views of the person running the firm, just as they might if they were disappointed that its Senegalese carrots were not organic.


Washington Post: Whole Foods Devotees Lash Out at CEO
August 19, 2009 in news with Leave a CommentTags: media coverage, washington post
From today’s Washington Post:
“A lot of people have been paying a premium for the Whole Foods brand for years,” said Mark Rosenthal, a playwright living in Massachusetts who founded the Boycott Whole Foods group a few days ago. It has nearly 14,000 members. “A lot of people are sad to look at this corporation and see that it is just like any other, if not worse.”
Read the rest at the Washington Posts’s website.

NPR Radio preparing segment on WF boycott
August 19, 2009 in action items, news with 2 CommentsTags: austin, npr
Austin, TX. Central Market North. 10am. Outdoor deck. NPR correspondent John Burnett will be there to measure the pulse of the group.
John Burnett: Correspondent, National Desk, Austin
Former Whole Foods Shoppers and supporters of the boycott should attend to express your disapointment with Whole Foods Market CEO and Founder, Mr. Mackey. Don’t forget to show your support for the boycott. If you have a Whole Foods bag, please consider using tape (removable is good), paint, or other material to deface the trademark, then bring with you. If you have Whole Foods receipts laying about the house, bring the most expensive one. (Also take a picture of it and send it to us. Please mark out personal information. We will post them publicly for you. )

Where to shop: nationwide alternatives to Whole Foods
August 18, 2009 in more info, where to shop with 6 CommentsTags: local, national, shopping
Shop at a farmers market:http://apps.ams.usda.gov/FarmersMarkets/
Join a CSA:http://www.localharvest.org/csa/
Find a food co-op near you:http://www.coopdirectory.org/directory.htm
Search for other organic food stores:http://www.organicstorelocator.com/

CNN: Whole Foods caught in health care flap
August 18, 2009 in news with Leave a Comment
From CNNMoney.com:
Whole Foods’ CEO John Mackey is known for his tendency to shoot from the hip.
This time, Mackey may have shot himself — and his company’s brand — in the foot by getting too personal on the very public issue of health care reform which has sparked calls to boycott the grocer.
“Certainly when our customers tell us they are unhappy to extent that they are boycotting our stores, we are concerned,” said Libba Letton, spokeswoman for Whole Foods. “We don’t want them to leave us.”
Read the rest at CNN.com.

Why we’re here.
August 18, 2009 in about us with 9 Comments
John Mackey, CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on August 12, 2009 quoting Margaret Thatcher and suggesting that healthcare is a commodity that only the rich, like him, deserve.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html
Whole Foods has built its brand with the dollars of deceived progressives. Let them know your money will no longer go to support Whole Foods’ anti-union, anti-health insurance reform, right-wing activities.

For more information go to the Boycott Whole Foods website: http://wholeboycott.com/