Mark Thorson wrote:

> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>>
>> "Whole Foods aficionados who assumed the company's management was as
>> crunchy as the brand are feeling betrayed.
>>
>> They have stormed Twitter, Facebook and the blogosphere to vent
>> their rage at John Mackey, the chief executive. In an op-ed column
>> in the Wall Street Journal last week, he argued for health-care
>> savings accounts and declared that health care is not an intrinsic
>> right-- ideas with a conservative bent, which made Whole Foods'
>> liberal customer base go ballistic.
>
> Why didn't they already know John Mackey is an evil man?
> This was well-documented in an earlier Wall Street Journal
> article:
>
>
http://online.wsj.com/public/article..._20070719.html
>
> He used a Yahoo stock-market discussion forum to drive down
> the price of Wild Oats' stock just before he bought the
> company. He has always played dirty. I enjoy shopping
> at Trader Joe's, but I always feel unclean buying anything
> at Whole Foods.


Even though WH doesn't carry lobsters because killing them would be
"cruel"...???


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Best
Greg