Definition: Open Mind

If you listen to my ideas then you have an open mind, but if you won't, then you are a closed minded person. A liberal wants you to tolerate their ideas, tolerate new ways of thinking, and entertain the ideas of change but don't dare disagree with them or they will hurt you or your business. In the story below, some customers disagree with the president of whole foods political views so are calling for a boycott.

I guess it is true: If you agree with Obama, you are liberated, if you don't you are un-American.












Why investors should cross Whole Foods off their shopping lists
Posted Aug 17 2009, 02:15 PM by Minyanville Filed under: Toyota, Whole Foods, Todd Harrison
This article was written by Minyanville's Josh Lipton

The Mother Earth-friendly crowd might enjoy the natural, organic foods lining the pristine shelves of their neighborhood Whole Foods Market (WFMI), but some of them don’t seem as appreciative of the politics of the company’s chief executive.

John Mackey, the controversial co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, penned an editorial last week in The Wall Street Journal, in which he came down hard on Obama’s health care reform plan. Mackey called for a move toward “less government control and more individual empowerment” rather than “a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system.”

Bing: Whole Foods


Unsurprisingly, not all of Mackey’s Prius (TM)-driving customers appear to agree with his views. (Though he's certainly managed to alienate them before: see CEOs Gone Wild: John Mackey for more.) Now, some of these once loyal patrons are threatening to boycott Whole Foods to demonstrate their opposition.

Those Whole Foods shoppers with a left-leaning political bias and a modem bent have moved to the Internet, where they’re reportedly calling for a boycott on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Read More...

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A Whole Foods boycott?
Posted Aug 17 2009, 01:44 PM by Kim Peterson Rating: Filed under: Kim Peterson, Whole Foods
There is a small movement afoot to boycott Whole Foods (WFMI) after chief executive John Mackey wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal suggesting eight fixes for health care.

More than 10,000 people have joined the "Boycott Whole Foods" Facebook page. The site decries what it sees as Whole Foods' anti-union, anti-health insurance reform, right-wing stance. "Whole Foods has the right to be as hateful and selfish as they wanna be," the page states. "We also have the right to starve them of our $."

Bing: More on John Mackey


I read Mackey's piece, and I'm sure he didn't set out to enrage the good portion of his customer base that leans left. But some customers are upset, particularly with Mackey's decision to include this quote from Margaret Thatcher at the beginning: "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

Here's the CliffsNotes version of the rest of the piece: Read More...

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