Comments on: Feckless Friday: Panic! At the Whole Foods Edition

By: Molly

Molly — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:44:24 +0000

HAHA! Internet Asperger’s…. and that post was hilarious!

By: Molly

Molly — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:41:36 +0000

That’s odd, I thought right wingers hated the earth???

By: zunzun

zunzun — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:20:42 +0000

I would have done the same thing …that was intimidating. I knew someone that moved into a small town and thought he and his partner were going to have a hard time adjusting (being accepted because they were gay). It wasn’t his “gayness” that disturbed the locals (there was actually a big community and lots of resources in that little place…go figure) but his choice of food and his bad manners in trash disposal….got a “Talking to” from his elderly neighbor about his heavy carbon footprint.

By: Abby

Abby — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:43:13 +0000

Dude, Tony, you have to let people make off-handed comments without getting all technical. Please, for the love of the internets. You’re dangerously close to being diagnosed with IA (Internet Assperger’s), which is close to regular Asperger’s, only it’s spelled different. And it manifests on the internet. And I just invented it. So it’s pretty much different from real Asperger’s, but still similar.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:05:26 +0000

I have been in Whole Foods just a couple of times. Never ate there.

@renee… you haven’t been giving him money anyway.
The average corporation in the United States distributes 75% of their total stock options to only 5 top executives…. At Whole Foods, the exact opposite is true: The top 16 executives have received 7% of all the options granted while the other 93% of the options have been distributed throughout the entire company.

In 2007 CEO reduced his pay to $1. For 2008, his salary was $1 and bonus was $33,380.

The average CEO received 431 times as much as their average employee received in 2004, while Whole Foods’ CEO (me) received only 14 times the average employee pay in cash compensation. (He raised the salary cap for Executives to 19X average employee salary). Considering that Whole Food Execs would be headhunted for salaries MUCH HIGHER that they get, the small bump in cap makes sense.

CY 2007 he earned about $160,000 (3 months of FY 2006 were at regular salary)

Prior to that, Exec salaries + bonus (from 1996 to now) ranged from 100,000 to 500,000 annually.

By: alison @ cluck and tweet

alison @ cluck and tweet — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:27:28 +0000

Here’s the sad thing. I don’t even know where the nearest Whole Foods is. We go to The Grain Train. And it’s 20 minutes away on a good day. I do, however, have a local farm down the road where I can buy dilly asparagus for 12 dollars a jar. So there!

By: Abby

Abby — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:13:39 +0000

@Pennie! Go ahead, Chef, laugh it up. I’m glad my inadequacies can be a source of joy for you. *sigh*

By: Pennie!

Pennie! — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:44:33 +0000

you’re freakin hilarious!

By: Abby

Abby — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:19:32 +0000

@Karen HAHAHAHA So funny. Now I want some chicken McNuggets.

@renee I’ve been reading weird things, too, so I’m going to use that as my excuse now instead of just being too scared. Good plan. And, this part got cut from my post, but when I got my pizza, I was very nervous and I really had to talk myself up just to get the dude’s attention and then again to ask where to pay. I didn’t know we paid at the register. I thought there was some kind of register in the food area. I didn’t know!

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:34:27 +0000

switch “because” and “I.” (weird typo…)