[lbo-talk] decentralization, Whole Foods style

[Kelley]

pretty much what whole foods is counting on. it's kinda like a guy who 
dismisses his failure to do 50% of the house and yard work by pointing to 
the guy in the wife beater tee shirt and saying, "Hey, at least you don't 
have to put up with that." as if, somehow, you're supposed to be grateful 
because he's not a complete sphincter monkey.

aside from that, i think the point was that Whole Foods supposedly prides 
itself on offering what the other outfits don't offer and that is, 
supposedly, some sort of caring concern about the environment and such. 
while they can see that we're all "connected" in terms of environmental 
issues, there's a disjuncture between "them" the great unwashed who want 
and believe in unions and the power of unions to "connect" us.

they are anti-union in a covert, insidious way and it's that much harder to 
get at and fight.

personally, this is what i would expect from Whole Foods. Ithaca was full 
of this kind of snarky inability to link their pet "progressive" "green" 
concerns with more traditional workers' issues.

At 02:04 PM 5/28/03 -0400, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>Besides, I like this store - good food, good service, a lot of imports,
>no obnoxious tabloids.
>
>Wojtek
>
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