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Posted By Eagle_Eye 2 months, 4 weeks ago in Business & FinanceI live in Boca Raton, Florida, a very liberal area. The Whole Foods here was so busy when it opened that they quickly doubled the size of the store, which at the time made it one of the biggest stores in the chain. When I heard the comments from their CEO, against the idea of the expansion of health care, nobody had to tell me what to do. I never spend any of my money at a business owned by anyone who has what I consider to be warped views. There is a market here similar to Whole Foods, called Greenwise Market, and since I've become a customer there I have started running into friends of mine who have made the same switch we did. It was nothing formal and I haven't tried to change anyone else's shopping habits but others feel the same way I do. Unlike Mackey, I hope the plan that Obama was elected to implement becomes law. I am someone who can't get insurance because of a preexisting condition I have. I am lucky because I can afford any medical care I need, but I care about others and know how badly this is needed.
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Eagle_Eye2 months, 4 weeks ago
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MeaJen302 months, 3 weeks ago
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FTA: "If Whole Foods' customers are really liberal, then they will, perhaps, remember that true liberalism endorses the free flow of information, ideas, and perspectives. While they may not agree with Mackey's statements, their eagerness to censor him has effectively transformed righteous anger into bald-faced hypocrisy and bad business into bad politics. Even if Mackey isn't better than that, his customers certainly should be."
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MRCOFFEECAKE2 months, 3 weeks ago
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That's ironic..I live in Deerfield Beach (probably 3 miles from you) and I just shopped at Greenwise last week for the first time.
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I was on my way to Whole Foods, but I drove by and stayed to shop.
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JohnBoyRed2 months, 3 weeks ago
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What a bunch of idiots. Whole Foods CEO is just trying to save them all from the death panels.
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I think everyone who thinks badly of Whole Foods right now needs to go visit Cuba for a few months and experience the "free" medical care in that country. When they return they will be big time supporters of Whole Foods and it's CEO.-
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Dionys2 months, 3 weeks ago
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Comparing the possible US system to Cuba is disingenous at best. Compare it to Canada, Britain or places like Sweeden. Then realize the US will improve on those already excellent systems.
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The funny thing is that although the Cuba system isn't great, it still ranks very close to the US system -- which is horrific.
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Ciera-Marie2 months, 3 weeks ago
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Really? You think so? Got proof to back that up?
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I got proof to back up juts how wrong you are.
My manager has experienced healthcare in Cuba on more than one occasion. So goes every year more than once. Every couple of years just to vacation and given her age it's the law of averages that she'd have to see a doctor in Cuba for something. She has had wonderful experiences every single time.
This last trip not only did she have to see a Cuban doctor, but so did her friend, her friends daughter and everyone else in their party. They ALL had nothing but wonderful things to say.
Better start talking to people who actually travel to Cuba, live in Cuba, instead of Fox News or the Miami Cuban Republicans.
Because of our continued Sanctions against them, they've learned to do amazing things with Healthcare., They don't stay in the box.
Not only that, but in Cuba there are no dead people in their homes for a week, month or years as their is a nurse for every community. Unlike here in America. -
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tadair9192 months, 3 weeks ago
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"If Whole Foods' customers are really liberal, then they will, perhaps, remember that true liberalism endorses the free flow of information, ideas, and perspectives. While they may not agree with Mackey's statements, their eagerness to censor him has effectively transformed righteous anger into bald-faced hypocrisy and bad business into bad politics. Even if Mackey isn't better than that, his customers certainly should be."
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Eagle_Eye2 months, 3 weeks ago
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JohnBoyRed2 months, 3 weeks ago
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Good point tadair. True liberalism does endorse the free flow of information. The "liberalism" we are talking about here is not that way. It's "secular regressivism" not "liberalism".
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If you have any doubt about what I'm saying here just go to any college campus and convince everyone that Ann Coulter, or GW, or Dick Cheney, or Larry Elder, or Rush Limbaugh, etc., etc. is going to be hired to give this years commencement address.
Result, in most cases, will be campus wide riots.
There is no free flow of information in our nation's liberal enclaves. Only those who are ideologically pure are allowed to express themselves. What we call "liberalism" is not "liberalism".
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miklkit2 months, 3 weeks ago
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tadair9192 months, 3 weeks ago
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MeaJen302 months, 3 weeks ago
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FTA: "Whole Foods' target demographic tends to be fairly liberal and, as such, is attracted to the company's socially-aware corporate governance as much as its high-quality food. From its decision to install fuel-cell generators in some of its stores to its commitment to philanthropy, many of While Foods' policies are designed to make its customers feel good about spending money there.
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And then there's the way that the company treats its workers. Whole Foods' employees are paid well above the market average, have full health coverage, and are reimbursed for their gym memberships. The company offers same-sex partner benefits, allows telecommuting for many of its workers, and has a strict nondiscrimination policy. In short, it's everything that a good liberal could want in a supermarket."
So by boycotting a store, and not the CEO, you are trying to put out of business a business that does more for workers, and the environment than other stores. How is this a good thing?
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simonsez2 months, 3 weeks ago
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It seems to me Whole Foods is being a good citizen company, paying their employees well, providing health coverage,selling good products and expressing the bosses opinion.
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Their clientele may be liberal (which is fine), but it is also somewhat upper income and patrons interested in taking care of their health with better food.
You can boycott as you like, EE, and shop somewhere else that probably doesn't do as good a job for their employees or with their products, but it seems to me W/F's is the kind of American company we should support. -
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stephen-johnson2 months, 3 weeks ago
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The Democrats complain that critics of the health care "reforms" don't offer anything in return. Yet when Whole Foods CEO John Mackey does so in an insightful op-ed, the Democratic reaction is to boycott his stores. So much for tolerance and being open to different ideas.
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The objective reader can read Mackey's offending column here. The naked partisans can continue the Nutscape left wing circle jerk.-
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