I love Whole Foods. Its brand has come to embody trust and transparency. When you walk in the door you are inundated with knowledge about how to live a more healthy life. At Radar, we often used Whole Foods as an example of an icon for trust.
The announcement that John Mackey had been participating in a Yahoo Financial chat room for the last 8 years under an assumed name, rahodeb - a play on his wife's name, Deborah - was shocking. Mackey would often bolster Whole Foods' point of view and criticize its main competitor and take over target, Wild Oats. The title of one of his final posts sums up his actions best, "Congratulations to Hubris and Goodbye." At the time he was referring to another chatter with the screen name, "hubris2000," but the title seems to carry deeper meaning.
CEO's often forget that their actions are a reflection of the brand. And, Mackey's are a blow to Whole Foods.
that the “private sector” is alwyas right, do we forget failures like Long-Term Capital, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Enron, Tyco, AIG and Lehman Brothers. Of course the federal government will destroy heathcare by getting involved, Oh but wait, Medicare and Medicaid and our military men and women and the Senate and Congress get the best heathcare in the world, and oh, that’s right, its run by our federal government. I can understand why some may think that the federal government will fail, if you look at the past eight years as a current history, with failures like the financial meltdown and Katrina but the facts is they can and if we support them they will succeed.How does shouting down to stop the conversation of the healthcare debate at town hall meetings, endears them to anyone. Especially when the organizations that are telling them where to go and what to do and say are Republicans political operatives, not real grassroots. How does shouting someone down or chasing them out like a “lynch mob” advanced the debate, it does not. So I think the American people will see through all of this and know, like the teabagger, the birthers, these lynch mobs types AKA “screamers” are just the same, people who have to resort to these tactics because they have no leadership to articulate what they real want. It’s easy to pickup a bus load of people who hate, and that’s all I been seeing, they hate and can’t debate. Too bad.
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