Found this item, on the way to looking up something else:
Tea Party stages ‘buycott’ at Whole Foods. From St. Louis Business Journal:
The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition said Friday that local members plan to shop Tuesday night at a Whole Foods in Town & Country to support the grocery store chain chief executive’s opposition to a public health care option...
...“We are asking supporters to do all their week’s grocery shopping that night,” said Dana Loesch of the St. Louis Tea Party. “Most tea party supporters are not regular customers of Whole Foods, and we want to show our support for Mr. Mackey’s championship of free-market health-care reforms.”
More, from our local "Crunchy Con," Rod Dreher, over the jump...
Occasionally, I spy on Rod Dreher to see what kind of right-wingnuttery he's up to; I was actually trying to catch him saying something unkind about Ted Kennedy when this blog post caught my eye:
Step up for Whole Foods, Michael Pollan
I'd like to add my voice to David Frum's shout out to Michael Pollan, asking the Great One to stand up for Whole Foods -- which now faces two union boycotts...
Judging from the comments on Dreher's blog, I think this "buycott" effort is going to be another epic fail:
...the Air of Self Righteousness in that place is beyond belief, like smog...
...WF capitalizes on the insecurities and good intentions of moneyed liberals. So technically my boycott began a long time before this kerfuffle...
...It's interesting that the Genius CEO of Whole Foods came up with a way to prosper from the self-righteousness of those he disagreed with - only to have that same swarm of locusts turn course on him...
And I just had to add in my two cents:
I was willing to look the other way on John Mackey's right-wing tendencies because of the overall positive corporate policies, such as not allowing the CEO to make hundreds of times more than the lowest paid employee and the company's open record policy on salaries.
But when he went public attacking universal health care--a goal I've been campaigning for most of my adult life--I stopped shopping there.
Tom Thumb, Kroger, New Flower Market, Central Market and others have been trying to get my business for years, by introducing organics in their stores. Now, they've got my business.
That's how the "free market" works, Mr. Mackey. Go ahead and try to make up your losses by marketing to other right-wingers, who think of your store as a place where only a tree-hugging-dirty-hippie-socialist would shop.