Maynard James Keenan of Tool Wine

[keewee.livejournal.com]

A couple of months ago Maynard James Keenan came to the Whole Foods on River Street and signed bottles of his wine to many, many individuals who camped out in line for hours on end in the vain hope that he would emerge topless from the produce section belting "Lateralus". Anyway, I have a bottle of the 'Chupacabra' signed by MJK that I would like to sell before I move to Oakland. $35 OBO!

Comments

Re: Whole Foods is evil!

[turil.livejournal.com]

I still think it's funny that people now want to boycott them, given that they have always intentionally overpriced their product to market to yuppies and wealthy suburbanites who want to feel rich, while they intentionally try to force small, local health food stores and coops out of business. (They took over Bread and Circus, a much, much better store, and Wild Harvest, and tried to force the Harvest Coop out of business.) The main premise of Whole Foods is cut-throat competition and a monopoly of big box stores.

As for his last sentence, I completely agree. I think everyone has an intrinsic right to food and shelter and health care. In fact, I'd say that food and shelter are, in fact, primary elements of health care.

Re: Whole Foods is evil!

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

But it's better NOW than NEVER. Right?

Re: Whole Foods is evil!

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

They took over Bread and Circus, a much, much better store

They bought that in an ordinary sale--it wasn't a "takeover", the business was up for sale.

and Wild Harvest

I think you mean "Wild Oats"? That was also a straight sale, not a "takeover."

I am not a giant fan of Whole Foods, but you can hardly blame them for buying other businesses that have been put up for sale by their owners.

Re: Whole Foods is evil!

[turil.livejournal.com]

Whole Foods is entirely responsible for it's own actions of trying to essentially become a monopoly. It's their goal. So while "blame" isn't something I do (it's stupid, really), I certainly do consider their actions of buying up other companies (which I consider to be "taking the stores over") all over the country when I decide what sort of company they are, and whether or not I want to support them.

Re: Whole Foods is evil!

[ron_newman]

Wild Harvest was a small natural-foods chain started by the Star Market company. They later sold the chain to Wild Oats, and kept 'Wild Harvest' as the name of the natural-foods aisle at Star Market (now Shaw's).