Amazon.comās Whole Foods Market doesnāt want to be forced to let workers wear āBlack Lives Matterā masks and is pointing to the recent US Supreme Court ruling permitting a business owner to refuse services to same-sex couples to get federal regulators to back off.
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors have accused the grocer of stifling worker rights by banning staff from wearing BLM masks or pins on the job. The company countered in a filing that its own rights are being violated if itās forced to allow BLM slogans to be worn with Whole Foods uniforms.
Amazon is the most prominent company to use the high courtās June ruling that a Christian web designer was free to refuse to design sites for gay weddings, saying the case āprovides a clear roadmapā to throw out the NLRBās complaint.
The dispute is one of several in which labor board officials are considering what counts as legally-protected, work-related communication and activism on the job.
Fuck Wholefoods
None of my homies shop at Wholefoods
You donāt shop at Whole Foods because of itās policies.
I donāt shop at Whole Foods because I donāt believe in paying $4 for a apple.
We are not the same.
Itās $6, grandpa.
Itās Amazon/Whole Foodsā policies that lead to charging such ridiculous prices for their items. You are the same, even if you donāt realize it.
Whole Foods was charging ridiculous prices long before Amazon got involved.
True. And that hasnāt changed either.
I absolutely would be willing to pay 4 or more for an apple, if it were local, and profits go to a local farm. Iām aware that means I eat in-season then too
So just drive to your local farmers market. Get a pound or two for $5 and cut out the middle man. I go occasionally, I get good deals like $1 massive sweet onions, 3 for $1 bell peppers (like softball sized ones), etc. Go early though, they usually sell before official times and are sold out within 3 hours (restaurants hit them hard)
I do
I live very close to the largest continuous fruit growing area in Europe. In-season 5kg crates go for five Euros, at the end of the season as low as one euro for 5kg on clearance. Donāt expect fancy-pants new strains to go at that price, though, itās going to be Elstar or Holstein Cox.
And, fun sidenote: Out of season itās indeed more CO2-advantageous for us to import apples from New Zealand than to store them. Buy apple sauce.
Not necessarily true, it would depend on the how clean the energy source of the refrigeration is. The only other major CO2Eq emission from storage of perishables is refrigerant leakage, but in most commercial scale usages thatās really low.
There isnāt one in my town so boycott goin strong for N years?
Idk that 5% cash back is hard to beat. I mean sure, fuck amazon for being anti-union, definitely need to trust bust them to but until then I canāt get 5% cash back when buying household goods anywhere else.
That 5% would be great, if WF wasnāt like 50% more expensive LOL
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