Yesterday I noticed the Whole Foods at Four Corners selling Pro Bass Shop gift cards.
Pro Bass Shop is the only major retailer still selling assault rifles after the latest horrific school shooting.
I’ve yet to hear back from Whole Foods on why they are still selling the gift cards, but it doesn’t seem in keeping with WF’s Whole People motto.
Pretty sure BPS sells a lot of other items as well. Maybe some of those other items are of use to Whole Foods customers. Maybe most Whole Foods customers have a more refined sense of proportion than do you.
I’m glad Lucia spotted this. I shop at that Whole Foods store in 4-corners all the time. I’m certainly going to make management there aware of my opinion that it’s inappropriate to sell Pro Bass Shop gift cards. If they don’t stop selling them, I will stop shopping there.
Selling those Bass Pro Shop gift cards doesn’t surprise me. I’ve long felt that Whole Foods “Whole People” motto was full of crap. Their CEO is a strong libertarian, is anti-ACA, believes that climate change is not necessarily bad, and has compared unions to herpes. Google Whole Foods and politics. Why Whole Foods has such a liberal following his beyond me.
This is silly, if you want stretch gift cards into supporting assault rifles, do you:
– ask if your manager or head of company supports NRA. Quit on the spot if they do
– sell your car if the car manufacturer ceo supports NRA
– ask the owner of every single store you spend money if they support NRA. Boycott and protest in front of their store. This includes coffee shops, mom and pop shops
– before calling the police incase of trouble, ask them to only send non NRA supporting officiers
Until the ceo of whole foods publically states he supports semi automatic assault rifles for general public, this holier than thou stance against selling giftcards at an outdoor sports store is silly….
The CEO of Whole Foods is Jeff Bezos. In case anyone missed that little change of ownership.
John Mackey is still the CEO of Whole Foods.
Why does Whole Foods sell gift cards at all?
@Newtoner – good point…they are made of plastic and we know how Newton feels about plastic so maybe they should be banned.
I simply don’t want to give companies my money if they have any corporate relationships with companies that manufacture or sell assault weapons — to anybody at any time. So, Whole Foods, sever ties with Bass Pro Shops.
I would like to figure out how to divest myself from the entire guns and ammo ecosystem. While assault weapons are the most obvious target for now, hand guns and other guns that are not assault weapons kill thousands a year. It would not be bad to live in a world where guns and ammo were only available from smaller, independent companies and not easily accessible from the Wal-Marts of the world.
The Second Amendment doesn’t require companies to traffic in guns and ammo. Companies do not have to make money from things that kill. CVS stopped selling cigarettes.