Letter from a Whole Foods worker Updated
You may have heard about the nutroots boycott of Whole Foods, whose CEO John Mackey is an outspoken critic of Obamacare and advocates market-based alternatives.
Their food is pricey, but if you have a chance/opportunity to help counter the boycott, go out and buy a few Whole Foods items. I think it’s worth it.
Reader Tara, a Whole Foods employee, e-mailed me last night:
Hey Michelle, just got your book, and can’t put it down! But anyways, I’ve attached the lovely flyer that picketers from UFCW were hanging out at my Whole Food Market today. Thought you’d get a kick out of it!! I work for Whole Foods, and I am a long time loyal employee. I love our company, and our CEO! John Mackey stands for what he cares about and believes in! This company offers awesome benefits and puts us team members first! I had to email everyone this flyer and get the word about because this is ridiculous. Any help getting the work out that this is ridiculous would be great! I’m sure you probably know all about his craziness, so any help would be great! Thank you!
The flyer is quite a piece of work. Check out how they make Mackey look like a convicted criminal:
Headed to my local Whole Foods later today. Their 365 whole wheat naan is the best.
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Update: From reader John…
Long time reader of your columns and web sites (and soon first time reader of your newest book).
A few quick points on John Mackey and Whole Foods. Nothing you don’t know or couldn’t have guessed…but I wanted to say them:
1. I have never shopped at Whole Foods. There wasn’t one where I grew up (North East Ohio) and there isn’t one where I’ve lived for 13 years, Montana (Bozeman).
2. If there was a Whole Foods, I’d shop there
3. I met John Mackey while I was thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail. I had never heard of Whole Foods and didn’t know he was the CEO of a huge corporation until the 3rd day. Even then, I was clueless. John was just another hiker to me, and he said he “ran a grocery store”.
4. John struck me as generous, highly intelligent, well-read, independent minded and as a “doer”. I have never had better conversations in my nearly 40 years than I had with John on trail for those 3 days in April of 2005.
5. His two hiking companions (with whom he thru-hiked the AT in 2002) were not tycoons. One was a retired, older man nicknamed Irish. He was a bit sombre and reflective. The other was half as tall as the rest of us but huge in his kindness. His nickname was Cowboy. He broke horses in the panhandle of Florida and lived a sparse, hard-working lifestyle. He was bald, had the beginnings of arthiritis in his knees, never complained, and always smiled. Always. I will never forget his smile. It was the most honest and good-willed smile I have ever seen. The prhase “his smile lights up a room” is a perfect fit.
6. John had read Ayn Rand, he had a firm grasp of her main topics, disagreed with some of it and as we hiked mile after mile, we talked non-stop about her topics.
Well, anyways, I am rambling. I am pleased you posted about this debate. I knew John for 3 days on the Appalachian Trail–you get to know people very fast on such hikes, without all the buzz and distractions of everyday life (it’s why many of us become serial thru-hikers). I think he is a good man.
Here is a post from the Whole Foods forum, where people debate John’s Op-Ed. I haven’t had a chance to fact check it. I post there as Montana AT05. All the blind hatred of the Left is on display in many posts–but only from a select few.
The post below is from a guy named captusa1, entitled:
Do You Know Who You Are Boycotting?
posted at 8/21/2009 7:05 AM CDT* Mackey lectures at Universities about the horrors of factory farming
* He says “Right now, Americans have to pretend factory farms don’t exist. They turn their eyes away, because there’s no alternative, there’s no choice. Once there is a choice, we will allow ourselves to be outraged.”
* He makes $1 a year and donates his stock portfolio to charity.
* He set up a $100,00 fund to help his employees with personal problems.
* He’s a vegetarian and his company will not buy from producers that treat their animals unethically.
* He flies commercial, rents the smallest cars, and stays in the cheapest hotel rooms – not because he’s cheap, but because he has no need for largesse
* He and his wife participate in yoga
* He gives over $1 million a year to animal welfare groups, education, relief work, and spiritual movements.
* Employees have full say in who they work with – a new employee must receive a 2/3 vote in order to make it past probation.
* Employees also vote on all company-wide initiatives
* There’s a salary book in every store – “no secrets” management believes everyone should know how much everyone else is making
* Executive salaries are capped at 14 times the lowest workers salary – If they want more money, everyone else has to get more money first
* Non-executive employees hold 94% of company stock options
* Pay is linked to team performance – profit sharing
* At least 5% of annual profits go to local charities
* Full-timers get 100% of their health care costs paid for – under plans the employees have selected
* “They just have a lot more respect for you as a person here” says an employeeAnd because he had a different idea about how the United States can fix it health care situation, none of this matters? He’s a caring person and many of you want to treat him like a monster. Why? Not because he opposes reform, but because he’s bringing more ideas to the table.
You people are despicable. If the country had more CEO’s like Mackey, this country would be a greater place
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Thank you, Debbie. The indifference of conservatives and the posters here to the Islamic war on us bothers me, too.
You people have GOT to start posting some sort of disclaimer or something before you post stuff like this that makes Diet Pepsi shoot out of my nose as I read it.
Forgot to add in my previous post, as I was walking back to work I encountered a guy with a sign saying “Hempfest volunteer stranded. Need Help. I resisted the urge to tell him next time go for a paying gig.
I don’t care how nice the guy is, if this is policy, I will never shop there…
Okay, now I’m flummoxed. What does a reasonable, thinking person do when faced with a company that does things I strongly DISAPPROVE of while at the same time taking a stand I strongly APPROVE of and want to support?
If that is proven true, and not just hyped up, then that is indeed troubling!! Maybe this guy is on our side regarding Obama’s healthcare bill, but far left on other issues. It does give one pause. This needs further checking!!
Well, I would probably just go back to my good old Cub Foods and forget the whole thing. Taking a stand on one issue but being dead wrong on the rest would make me tend to not go out of my way to shop there. I would NOT boycott a place like that, but I also would not go out of my way to shop there in support of it. So my shopping trip to Whole Foods is on hold until I learn more about it.
Debbie apparently doesn’t know the difference between the word “doesn’t” and “won’t.” If you look at her original blog entry on it, she merely says she didn’t see it on the shelves. Whoop dee freaking doo. Just because you don’t see Israeli olive oil on the shelves does not mean they have a policy not to carry it.That could be for any one of a million reasons beyond any antisemitism. My Giant doesn’t have a separate Amish food section, but I am not quite ready to release the hounds on them.
But of course it wouldn’t be a Debbie post unless she could play that tired card again.
Chap #108
And, that is exactly why I haven’t visited her site in months. IMHO, stalking sites, leaving links, to get hits on your own site is tasteless. I’d be interested to know if she’s a devoted fan of our hostess?
Ha. No, I don’t believe she is. Quite the opposite.
I am going to prioritize. Between the Islamic war on the West and Obamacare the more immediate threat to our Republic seems to be Obamacare. If they get that through, it will change the whole relationship between the State and us for the worse. Permanently. It will be irreversible as a practical matter.
So a show of support buying at Whole Foods might be warranted for now, along with letters or emails to the company about our concerns. But that is temporary, unless Whole Foods can make a satisfactory change or explanation. The war will be raging on long after Obamacare is either defeated or has become the law of the land.
Just got a call from the darling bride. She’s on her way to Whole Foods. Hopefully to pick up some cheeeeeezzzzeee. Rogue Cheddar, eat your heart out!
Would you mind pointing out this “indifference”? If a single comment by Debbie is all the evidence you have that “conservatives and the posters here” are “indifferent” regarding “the Islamic war on [the USA]“, then LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
Salt #110
My point exactly!
Just don’t buy olive oil there.
A fascist ass! He was impolite, obnoxious, offeredd false information as fact. In other words, a morally corrupt, and clueless liberal.
Don’t you just love the irony? “I don’t care how many people it hurts, or how many people will lose their jobs! The boycott will continue until Mackey agrees with my POV, and bows at the altar of The One…”
Oh, yeah…this anal retentive ass-monkey uses his child as a prop… “I took my son to (whatever it was), and we saw 2200 people, w/o health care, lined up for free health care.” (Oh, the horror…the horror!)
I find it doesn’t meet the smell test. He makes a statement so it must be true? He uses his son as prop to arouse pity?
He blindly supports Obama, who also spews lies protrayed as fact, and I think that says it all.
Can liberals be honest about anything? The guy writes an article with several suggestions on how to reform health care, and they put together a protest against him stating he is against health care reform. Seriously, how freakin’ dumb do you have to be to be a liberal?
At any rate, if there was any doubt before, there should be no doubt now….it’s not about health care reform for these nutjobs, it’s about getting health care for free.
New-to-Whole Foods shoppers or those who think it’s too pricey for regular shopping might be interested to know that the “365” Whole Foods house brand line of products is not only quite reasonably priced, they’re also top quality, having been sourced from premium brand producers.
“365” products have been top-rated by the likes of the “America’s Test Kitchen/Cook’s Illustrated” and Consumer Reports folks.
Try the house brand dairy items (e.g., organic milk, half-and-half, heavy cream or eggs, the soy milk and butter), the bakery loaves baked on premises, the canola oil and olive oil, the frozen pie crust, canned tomatoes, canned white tuna, etc. etc. …. you’ll have a fresh perspective on what “great-value-for-your-money” means.
Meanwhile, in honor of the recession, they have started offering “value packages” on their meats, which have already been praised by other commenters here.
OTH, it’s hilarious reading the outraged avowals of the boycott moonbats to shift their business to “Trader Joe‘s” …. they really should read up on the founding/ownership management of that chain too!
RE THE GRETA SHOW: we were likewise big avoiders of her previous tabloid-crime-and-Lib Dem TV show orientation (she’s a proud feminist and former civil rights lawyer, after all), but has she come around since her husband, J. Coale, a former bigwig Dem financial backer of Hillary Clinton, switched to supporting/advising Sara Palin after Obama’s nomination/election!
We have never seen her so blatantly politically engaged on air and passionately critical of liberals and Dems since her apparent re-orientation to the independent/conservative-libertarian? viewpoint.
Here is the link to the transcript and video Greta’s show last night with the nasty Totalitarian tool who is boycotting Total Foods.
Note that the UFCW union is associated with “Change to Win” which is affiliated with many unions including the S.E.I.U.- naturally.
When I posted my comment #101 at 3:13 no one had recognized Debbie’s comment #80 at 1:27 or commented on her concerns. No one at all was showing their concern about that problem with Whole Foods. It was all Whole Foods the Hero.
If this had been the first sign of indifference to the conflict when recognizing its importance is inconvenient I would have shrugged and just figured no one had gotten to it yet, even given all the time. Howeverk, the idolizing of Novak here made me nauseous.
I am relieved to see the posts since mine on the matter.
THANK YOU for the input and suggestions. I may have to try the organic milk and the new-and-improved Greta with some warm homemade chocolate-chip cookies tonight…
Spoken like a true propagandist ideologue! Let’s see…if one out of ten ideas by a Democrat is good for everybody, and the other nine are selfishly motivated, blindly partisan, and inherently idiotic, this one good idea should be ignored? In fact, this Democrat should be vilified for having an “off-track” moment of clarity?
Alrighty, then! I don’t know whether to laugh at, or feel sorry for this
Nazi, um, sorry, I mean Mistress Schlussel… “Ve haf vays to make you shut up, Juden!”I apologize for the last entry. I was out of line
The hypocracy of the left, and the culpability of some on the right, in their efforts to give Constitutional rights to those who kill, and support the killing of Americans should be discussed. And yes, capitalism is funding it, maybe due to the willing promotion of naivete by elected officials.
Sorry, Debbie. Please accept my mea culpa.
which is why I used the word ‘policy’.
I hesitate to give my money to anyone with an agenda.
correction: a particular agenda.
Greta may have lit a fire under herself because of rumors Fox want to give Glenn Beck her spot.
There is only one conservative issue today: Preserving our Constitutional Republic against enemies both foreign and domestic.
Obamacare will destroy our Constitutional Republic. So will the unchecked advance of Islam and sharia law. As will open borders. As will the continued surrendering of our sovereignty to the global bureaucracies. As will supporters of the ‘living Constitution’ being appointed to the USSC.
Anyone on the wrong side of those issues can pound sand. Other issues, like abortion and gay marriage and affirmative action and so on are secondary. They may also be very, very important. Life or death. They may be unconstitutional. But they are SECONDARY. So I can agree to disagree yet still respect my fellow defenders of the Republic.
I have no problem with conservatives who disagree about the METHODS of preserving the Republic, but differing on preserving it at all is not acceptable. That is why the open borders crowd and the ‘terrorists are people, too’ crowd are my enemies just as much as the Obamacare zealots.
Have you checked the produce department, because they carry Israeli produce. I don’t know why they don’t carry the olive oil (unless it’s the sheer joy of irritating you) but it could be price related or even related to ingredients.
Israel is big enough to defend herself. I have no real interest one way or another in their politic. I do absolutely believe in defending American democracy.
Mackey isn’t a Republican. He’s a libertarian. That alone should be enough to make most people shy away.
But he’s the liberals worst nightmare, because he proves that the unions and the endless government food regulations aren’t really necessary.
No. Couldn’t possibly be that. It is antisemitism pure and simple.
And now you are an antisemite for suggesting that it might not be antisemitism.
I’ve also heard that I’m a racist, you know.
MarcoPolo #128
It could also be demographics. What will sell in Detroit or Dearborn may or may not be requested items in other parts of the country. Walmart and even Costco are prime examples. Things you can find in one part of the country are not to be had in others.
I don’t care, as long as there is a selection.
Gee, thanks for that link to Helen Thomas, Chaps.
Does Whole Foods carry eye bleach?
And chap knows I don’t keep kosher & other dietary laws.
We were just talking about crab cakes.
Other than that, I’m pretty much a zionist.
OT/but did anyone catch MM on Beck? Smart, articulate and stunning as usual. And, to Beck’s credit, he lets her run with the subject.
Just fired off this email to UFCW… here’s the url if you’d like to do the same: http://www.ufcw.org/about_ufcw/contact_us/
Thanks, tre! Missing ya as well. How’s the missus?
Say no more … I’ll do what I can tomorrow. Tonight, I’ve made porterhouse steaks, fresh green beans, rice and cornbread for dinner. Topping it off with Chardonnay for me and Cabernet Sauvignon for the hubby. Chap is this okay?!?
Moonshine is a good aperterif with corn bread and green beans.
LOL!!
When I shop at Whole Foods I am selective about what I buy. I don’t buy Palestinian Terrorist Olive Oil. (I try not to buy things made in China either when possible).
The question is can I morally shop at a store that engages in some practices that I don’t support and engages in other practices that I do support? I guess it comes down to the relative importance I place on the issue.
In the month of June we didn’t shop at Safeway because of the “support” for “GAY MONTH.” We wrote and told them we wouldn’t spend a penny at Safeway that month and we didn’t.
I got annoyed at the local Whole Foods manager because they wouldn’t let me in the store 20 minutes BEFORE they closed one night. I told the manager I would look elsewhere for my groceries for the next two weeks and I did.
I am not sure the “all-or-nothing” approach will work when it comes to the store where we buy groceries. If we could give up eating it might but soon we will find that Giant, Safeway, Magruders and Whole Foods would be “off limits” because of some silly practice and then we would all be back to subsistence farming.
I am not sure that is the answer.
And yet they carry Icelandic vodka. I’m never setting foot in there.
I’ve missed you, Aloha.
Thanks! I’ve been super busy for the last few weeks….
24Klady, you hit the nail on the head.
Excuse the double negative, but Dearborn is not call Dearborn-istan for nothing. A Whole Foods in Dearborn would most likely stock Palestinian olive oil and they’d probably sell a lot of it. If they stocked Israeli olive oil it would probably end up broken on the floor.
Conversely, a Whole Foods in a largely Jewish neighborhood would carry Israeli olive oil and probably kosher foods as well. Palestinian olive oil would sit on the shelves for years.
This is called Economics 101. Sell the customer what he wants to buy.
We shop at Whole Foods less often than we’d like because it is more expensive than the corner grocer.
My wife and I have vowed now to increase our shopping at Whole Foods to support the pragmatic, and brave CEO.
We like the organic butter choices, the fresh sausage, cheese and wine selections as well as the great choices in the produce section.
We now eat at Olive Garden often since they pulled their advertising from Letterman over his insulting remarks about Sarah’s kids.
Is it just me, or does Helen Thomas look like Maureen Dowd left out in the sun too long?
I agree, WarEagle82. Besides, there’s just no way to know which company you are boycotting. You could boycott Purina Dog Chow for some reason, but you still buy Nestle chocolate. Guess what, they’re the same company!
Your “boycott” needs to be more localized. You know, think globally, act locally? I hate to use that but in this case, it’s what would work.
I also think we should support Whole Foods because of what their CEO said about Obamacare. If there are other issues, those can be dealt with later.
Microsoft is engaged in things I find offensive, especially to the American worker. Can I boycott them and throw the computer in the dump? Sure, I just couldn’t log onto MM.com anymore. Think of all the fun I’d miss…
TooMuchTime #146
Thank you for saying what I was too PC to admit online. There are reasons that merchants fail to carry products and provide services in areas where the ethnic population doesn’t warrant it, and may even have serious problems with you if you do so.
Not that Im an Apple fanatic, but you can do as you described and not be completely shut out from MM.com
You need to pick and choose your boycotts. I’m regretting my decision last year to boycott MS-NBC… I keep missing out on the Contessa Brewer meltdowns and rants.
And now, I’m slow to the whole “MS-NBC Fantasy Make-believe News” trend with them editing film to make a situation look like it has racial tension or whatever else they want. I’m surprised they didn’t have a shoot-out in the footage of the “he’s black but we’re concealing that from you” event in Phoenix… maybe next week.
MS-NBC could film a Whole Foods protest and insert a mariachi band. Rats, La Raza did the whole mariachi band thing already in Houston. Or, a passionate candlelit dinner, trimmed and pasted to look like it’s a rendezvous between Barney Frank and Perez Hilton. MS-NBC, where TV news is just like Christmas magic, baby!
I am not sure I wanted to know that the puppy chow people make chocolate. But it does explain the strong desire to have my belly rubbed after eating a Nestle bar…
Where is this ITU? And how do you defend olive oil? Wheres Popeye when you need him? Perhaps Palistinians make better olive oil than the Israelis brand or it’s firing range free olive oil.
By the way, HAMAS is one thing (bad). Palistinians are another. If only they would just surrender. Or maybe.. it’s not the nationality, its the Koran. Say it ain’t so Joe.
Glenn Beck is on vacation. That must have been a repeat!
We just finished dinner. We had fish my husband caught up north on the Gull River. Bass and Sunnies. Yum!!! I ground up some almonds as part of the coating. We had vine ripened tomatoes from the back yard and watermelon. Tomorrow, maybe we will have squirrel stew. Life is good.
Like producing several thousand millionaires by giving employees stock options? (And not just those at the top.)
We have a brand new Whole Foods in my tiny little beach town. Think I’ll pick up some goodies for the weekend!
Not if you’re a squirrel apparently…
No Whole Foods close enough. Sniff.
I do shop at a very slightly higher-end place because it’s worth it for a vegetarian and it’s ten minutes away. (Martin’s, owned by the same people as Giant) They have about two aisles of organic food. However, it’s really not scary. Full of normal people. They even have bulk items that must be sold to either small businesses or huge families. (A bag of potatoes two or three feet high?)
Besides recognizing that glowering at people in the meat section would be thoroughly counterproductive, I feel that I would be very bored doing so. The only reason I go in there when shopping by myself is to look at prepared mashed potatoes that are inexplicably in the middle of it.
Amy’s Vegetarian Pot Pies are pretty tasty, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Whole Foods had them. A bit small for the price, and the crust could be better, but the inside is yummy. Also LiteLife veggie hot dogs. They look a little off, but they taste quite good. And I think other veggie hot dogs are really gross.
If you want to support Whole Foods, here are some ideas.
1. Contact your local store manager and express your support. If you’re shopping there, let the Obama lovers who work there know you are concerned with extreme far Left tactics.
2. E mail Whole Foods at wholefoods.com.
3. John Mackey’s e mail address is: john.mackey@wholefoods.com
4. Leave a message at corporate headquarters: 512 477 5566.
5. Fax them at 512 482 7000.
Lastly, the other great reason for doing things like this is that it feels good! By expressing my opinion, I felt like I was doing something, and was a great antidote for powerlessness.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/08/liberals_attack_whole_foods.html
#161 Hey, NestingHawk
Are you in Eldersburg, Maryland???
I LOVE Martin’s. Was waiting with bated breath for the move and expansion….
When I made my little trip to Whole Foods today, I saw a couple of people in black t-shirts outside, but I couldn’t see what the shirts said. They vanished after a little while. This is an urban location, so I had to park in their garage on top of the store and go inside another way.
Well, if this is a boycott, it’s an epic FAIL of a boycott because I saw all of the same old hippies, dreadlocked white men, and health food nuts on their way back from yoga class that I usually see there. They must not know about the boycott, don’t care about the boycott, or they also think that ObamaCare sucks rocks
. So I picked up some Zhena’s Gypsy Tea, Vosges chocolate, a couple of mini cupcakes for my late afternoon sugar rush, and a bead bracelet to help out those nice folks in the rainforest. Maybe I’ll come back this weekend for some of their tasty rotisserie chicken.
BTW, I saw Dead Sea bath salts and other Israeli products for sale on the skin care shelves.
(Strikes liberal pout with hands on hips) “That’s not fair!”
I have been following this thread about Palestinian olive oil vs. Israeli olive oil with feigned interest. However, I will not frequent any stores that carry Baby oil products, that are not clearly marked with the ingredients and manufacture process.
But Debbie pointed it out his antisemitism first.
Regarding the Palestinian olive oil I work at the D.C. that supplies the Whole Foods for all the stores in the north east. The only olive oil I see come is from Italy and Greece. Trust me they don’t pack them right and the cases fall apart easily so I end up cleaning up 3 to 5 cases a shift so I see where they come from.
As for Israeli food offhand all I can think of are figs, dates and when the Jewish Holidays come around most of the food we get comes from there. Never seem anything from Gaza or the West Bank.
KayFromCarroll;
No, I’m from Virginia, but I get radio from Hagerstown with ease. I’m glad you got a Martin’s; I’m a big fan, too. Smart and nice staff, excellent variety, good bakery and deli, organization of the store makes sense…I’m completely addicted to the EasyShop, too.
I just don’t like the Food Lion I live slightly closer to. Some are better-there’s a really nice one in Front Royal-but in this one, it’s a toss-up during normal hours whether anyone will be at the deli, they seem to be out of things more, there is no pharmacy, and the staff is a bit of a toss-up, too. Some are really helpful, some are less so. It doesn’t help that I’m not comfortable being in that plaza at night, which isn’t Food Lion’s fault.
As if he’s the only person who’d coming out against Obama Care.. If you strip away the media spin, the country is at least 60%-40% against Obama’s Socialist plan.. John Mackey is in good company. I buy from his Markets, & will continue to. Let the nutroots have their tantrum.. I think I’ll open carry my pistol into one of their moonbat markets here in Tennessee just to aggravate them this weekend.. They hate the sight of freedom in action..
If you think a flattering picture can be taken of Helen Thomas, you need to put down the crack pipe, bottle, and the needles.
There ain’t a photographer or camera or photoshop expert that could do that.
We also don’t have a Whole Foods store near us but were talking about it just this morning and agreed that if we did, we’d go shopping there. In the meantime, whenever we visit a city, we’ll go looking for the Whole Foods store.
You consider these 3 photos unflattering. I consider them accurate.
Beauty is only skin deep. Ugly works from the inside out.
Katablog,
They have a store locator on their website.
I was traveling yesterday and missed this entire fracas.
After posting about this on the open thread last weekend, I called WF and went to my local store (for the first time). The wife and I bought a couple hundred dollars worth of food and adult beverages. She “discovered” the 365 brand and has made a list of more goods to purchase. Looks like Mr. Mackay has created a customer.
Couple of points:
1) Mackey sounds like a liberal when you review the litany of his behaviors, but the big difference is, he is doing these things himself. It is his money, his actions. He is not attempting to have the government take your money to do these things. One could disagree with a progressive but still respect them if they did this sort of thing more often.
2) That is Helen Thomas’ publicity photo.
DougT
As someone who works for Whole Foods I have to say he is (he’s a ex-hippie)but he puts his money where his mouth is.
Mostly he really beleives in the organic life style. Up here in the north east he has all the stores have recycling bins for custumers to bring back soft plastic( plastic bags and such) hard plastic (yogurt cups,plastic pails and such) and used battaries. That gets sent to the D.C. where I work in CT.,we got about 48 stores in the NE so that adds up to for the soft plastic one 200-300 pound bail a day, hard platic one 100 pound bail a week and the battaries about 5 to 8 10 pound buckets a day. They are talking about taking old light bulbs to but I’m not sure if that’s gonna happen.
OMG!!! (cleaning up coffee on the keyboard)
This is one of the reasons I LOVE the comments section!!!! I love you people!
Just checked the Olive Oil I bought at Whole Foods the other day. Made in Italy. Whole Foods is a pretty amazing store and I enjoy shopping there. It’s a bit pricey but worth it.
I notice many of the comments by the LLL on Mackey’s Whole Foods blog end in “I will see how long before you delete this dissenting comment” yet they are still their days later.
Wow. That guy is insane. A nice padded room would suit him well. Where is he getting that “60 Americans die each day” figure? I have never heard that before.
“Sixty Americans a day?” If the figure is accurate, one wonders how many Americans will die each day because of government health care rationing if Obamacare is passed? The object of Obamacare is to stop treating older Americans because it is “too expensive.” How many of them will die daily because of this policy?
By his own definition this makes guy an hypocrite and a moron. He is perfect for a position in the Obama administration.