Whole Foods/John Mackey Controversy Heats Up.

WASHINGTON POST

Austin-based Whole Foods continues to garner unfavorable national attention--because of recent comments by its CEO John Mackey.

NPR, The Nightly Business Report on PBS and many newspapers and websites are reporting growing discontent over Mackey's WSJournal Op-Ed about "ObamaCare."
At least 16,000 unhappy consumers have added their names to a boycott Whole Foods page on Facebook.

Meanwhile, Mackey has had no comment to the boycott calls. He is reportedly hiking...hopefully not on the Appalachian Trail.

US Consumer News: Half-Assed CEO In News At Whole Foods.

HUFFINGTON POST.

In a recent WSJournal Op-Ed piece, outspoken Whole Food's CEO John Mackey once again has put a proverbial stinky foot in his mouth, opining in a libertarian vein about the problems he sees with what he calls "ObamaCare."

A backlash immediately began on the Daily Kos web site and has spread to Whole Foods'own online forum.

Whole Foods, a world-wide grocery chain, based here in ultra liberal Austin, Texas, prides itself on its organic--and expensive--offerings.