Comments on: Interbay Whole Foods to open in October

By: Who?

Who? — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:42:20 +0000

It's kind of cute how half of Ballard thinks the Revolution is (still) coming….they must be horrified Obama's such a sensible centrist.

Hey guys, will your Revolution be televised? It'd make great reality TV: put a bunch of Ballard commies in a room and watch them purge each other for the slightest deviation of the party line. I'd pay to watch!

By: Who?

Who? — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:38:52 +0000

If you ca afford it, why is it foolish? Maybe it's a good way to get away from the prols?

By: Who?

Who? — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:37:56 +0000

I'll be there! Glad the armchair Socialists are not going, where would they park their anger at Obama's centrist policies?

By: SweetRose

SweetRose — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:09:09 +0000

If you had read some of the links I posted you would see that thery HAVE tried to organize.

By: petsfriend

petsfriend — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:02:07 +0000

“There is always an easy solution to every human problem–neat, plausible, and wrong.” H. L. Mencken

By: Ballardog

Ballardog — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:03:48 +0000

Like I said before, I am not a WFM employee. Why don't you ask some of them? The few I know are happy working there. It should be up to them if they want to unionize or not. If they choose not to the pro union folks have no right to judge them for it. Period.

As for the best companies to work for rankings, my personal experience would leave me to believe they are fairly accurate.

By: ym

ym — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:26:33 +0000

Do you happen to know anything about this survey? Was it anonymous? Was it done by the company? What were the questions asked? We all know how these things are as easily skewed as are statistics.

By: Windopaene

Windopaene — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:13:03 +0000

Whole foods is anti-union and evil…

By: Ballardog

Ballardog — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:00:10 +0000

I repeat. Based on a vote or survey from the employees.

By: ym

ym — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:46:33 +0000

I have never and will never shop at Whole Foods but fools are easily parted from their money and Whole Foods as made a fortune off fools. Never underestimate the intelligence of those who follow trends.

By: Who?

Who? — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:34:57 +0000

Who is 'we'? You mean you?

By: milo_dakkat

milo_dakkat — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:05:08 +0000

Always too dang expensive. Ballard Market works for me just fine.

By: SweetRose

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:53:50 +0000

Most things are fairly simple really Nora. Certainly people are. The complications are mostly manufactured and are just tossed in to confuse things and gain control.

By: SweetRose

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:51:15 +0000

I am very willing to pay a little more and have a little less in order for my fellow workers to live a decent life. It's a price worth paying to live in a civil society.

By: SweetRose

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:21:20 +0000

Reform comes one baby step at a time. Americans are infantalized and that's all they are capable of.

Whole Foods, by their usury and blatant exploitation of customers and workers alike makes them a good early target.

By: SweetRose

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:18:19 +0000

Chopper you most certainly can force a business to be union. How do you think unions were started to begin with? Osmosis? What cannot be forced is the ability for people to think in their own best interest. That takes hard work and sacrifice, something few Americans are willing to do right now. Americans learn slowly. The power belongs to the workers if they choose to use it. Sadly too many today sold their power for a big car and a bigger TV and a cheap mortgage. Basically Americans choose empire over republic and are being pacified with bread and circuses but the times they are a changin’.

And Ballarddog the employees did not vote it a good place to work, Fortune Magazine did that. Based on what? Who knows what criteria was used.

By: SweetRose

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:08:05 +0000

Good example.

By: SPG

SPG — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:06:48 +0000

Libertarians, LaRouche followers, Naderites post 2000, Hemp extremists, Scientologists, and that guy who keeps screaming that the Frye Apartments are Communists. My tolerance for all of the above has gotten lower the more I am exposed to them, well except for that Fry Apt is Communist sign waver guy, he's at least not trying to change the way I live for some half baked idea.

By: chopper_74

chopper_74 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:29:24 +0000

That's the thing, virtually none of the shopping, dining, entertainment, services are union currently. But, anyhow, THIS one is EVIL! What a bunch of idiots. You get serviced everyday by minimum wage folks!
But go ahead, unionize everyone, see if you can even afford to have an opinion.

By: chopper_74

chopper_74 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:24:47 +0000

Some see it as inevitable, and fear that the choice will be removed in this country.
All the square pegs, all the round holes.
I see a lot of splinters…

By: chopper_74

chopper_74 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:20:45 +0000

Rose, you can't force a business to be union.
You can't force it to fail, you can't force it to succeed. You only have to choose between working for it or not. Creating it or not, competing with it or not.
Do, or do not.
I love this country.

By: mickey

mickey — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:44:38 +0000

Raise your hands… how many people here are going to boycott Trader Joe's for being non-union???

Didn't think so.

By: Ballardog

Ballardog — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:36:49 +0000

Comparing WFM to Walmart is a little suspect. Again, I don't work there, but the employees are happy and voting it as an excellent place to work so I don't see the problem.

Myself, I've had some relatively extreme negative and violent experiences with unions so I don't trust them. I also find the environment they create is prohibitive to advancement and flexibility.

By: SweetRose

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:08:36 +0000

See below.

http://uprisingradio.org/home/?p=7860

By: SweetRose

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:05:56 +0000

Seems there is lots of stiffling going on by Whole Foods.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/are...

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/s...

http://michaelbluejay.com/misc/wholefoods.html

http://obrag.org/?p=7365

By: Ballardog

Ballardog — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:04:43 +0000

Not aware of that figure. Maybe folks working there aren't all out to be career checkers or maybe that is the nature of retail. Perhaps better answered by a WFM employee.

By: SweetRose

SweetRose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:54:05 +0000

Then why do they have an average 25% turn over a year?

By: Ballardog

Ballardog — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:29:57 +0000

Sheesh. No wonder we have such different viewpoints.

By: Ballardog

Ballardog — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:24:52 +0000

Why so big on the union? What is the need? I can understand this if the company was treating their employees poorly but WFM is consistently rated among the top companies to work for as voted on by those same employees. What gives?

By: BallardFan1

BallardFan1 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:55:36 +0000

I didn't used to shop at Whole Foods for a variety of reasons. But considering how much good they've done for the environment, their high standards of quality, and fairness in how they treat their employees, this new store will most certainly be getting my business. Add the fact that they aren't union and have a CEO who isn't afraid of the loud majority, and I'm *so* in.

It's not right to stifle people for simply voicing their opinion. At a time like this, we need to be praising creative thinking instead of trying to make everyone conform to “hope” and “change” when it will cost us loads of money. We should be supporting anyone who values their employees HALF as much as WFM and also has incredibly high standards about the environment and animal testing. I applaud WFM and will be making special trips to shop and sip on some Peet's while I'm there. Whole Paycheck or not – I'm so there.