Boycotting Whole Foods – Lazy People Style

Currently, there is a weak boycott going on – primarily just on the Web (that’s how lazy we’ve gotten) against Whole Foods the supermarket chain.  As you know, Whole Foods is a semi-upscale chain (though their 365 brand is extremely affordable) that caters to middle and upper middle-class Americans that like their free food samples just like any other group of people – just not with said people.

Apparently, the CEO of Whole Foods, naively believing he is a free man in a free nation and having the right to express his opinion, wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal offering an alternative view to President Obama’s proposed health care initiative (never mind there isn’t an actual bill out there).  Well this CEO is learning the hard way – many of his clientele don’t just shop at his supermarket because they are hungry – no sir, they are making a political statement with their high fat (19%) European butter (which makes great shortbread, by the way.)

These shoppers are angry and are threatening to get their extra-virgin olive oil and vine ripened tomatoes elsewhere.  They are letting him know: Yours is not the only organic chicken in town, sir.

These people have a right to protest; just like the CEO has a right to offer his opinion on health care.

But, here is my point: Do these same people know the viewpoints of all the venues in which they dine and shop? Does that local bookstore/coffee shop share their views? You think that is the case at the local restaurant/café they love so much?  How about that art gallery on the corner? You know it: The one with the plastic cups filled with cheap white wine and served with dried-out cheese and music that is too intrusive; all coming together to create the beginnings of a hangover as you view pissed off artists still trying to take a swing at the 80s and Ronald Reagan.

I digress. My point is simple: Justice is never that blind.

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