If you just can't get enough of the whole Whole Foods issue
By adamg - 7/11/11 - 9:03 pm
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council holds a special meeting (no doubt, a very special meeting) to talk about that ad-hoc committee report, the one that demands Whole Foods provide everything from "culturally appropriate food to contributions to a fund that would subsidize purchases at competing markets.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 12 at the First Baptist Church, 633 Centre St.
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It's gettin real...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UFc1pr2yUU
Did Whitey and Catherine shop
At that Whole Foods?
whitey and catherine shopped at dig a hole foods
stop and pop? dead basket? flanaguns? big die? johnny hoodmasters? roache smothers? unsafeway? traitor jims? saws? tedeadskis? scar market?
DeadMoolah's
Market CASKET
:)
he shoots...
HE SCORES!!!
God Bless America
I truly hope that Whole Foods decides to find another location and the BU bio-terror lab moves in.
The problem with putting that in JP
Then imperfect protocol at the BSL 4 lab would probably result in lab workers contaminating the Orange Line. Which would be no great loss, except the contamination would spread to other lines. Plus there would be public health costs for decades from mysterious Orange Line Syndrome, since you know the MBTA isn't big on cleaning, and they'll be running those same ugly cars with duct tape forever.
Not all of JP
is crazy -- please don't put the biolab here! There are plenty of sane folks of every description in JP who are happy that a grocery store is replacing a grocery store and that some of our neighbors will be hired to work there. There are more Whole Foods supporters on just my small street in Hyde Square than there are active members of Whose Foods/Whose Community in all of Hyde Square.
When the story of this bizarre controversy is written, it will be about how most community leaders and elected officials completely miscalculated and backed an entirely fraudulent so-called community organization that represents no one and whose great work has done nothing to help anyone truly affected by Hi Lo's closing but instead divided neighbor against neighbor. The vacuum where leadership should have been allowed senseless things like this Ad Hoc Committee report to happen. If the JPNC has any guts, it will reject the report tonight.
Agreed
I'd say most of JP is relatively sane. I support the Whole FOods. All of the neighbors I've spoken to are on board. And we all are embarrassed by the idiots who are giving us run-of-the-mill JPers such a bad reputation.
Can't we get the mayor to disavow them?
The neighborhood councils are organizations set up by City Hall. Does the mayor really want his name and administration associated with these people? We should ask him what he's going to do to end this embarrassment.
Whole foods and JP Neighborhood Council
The JPNC gave up any pretense of being representative of JP when (in violation of their own rules) they gave up having elections across JP, and decided to have elections only on a Saturday at the JP Worlds Fair (which ended up getting rained out). This happened because they had become so irrelevant to the neighborhood that they couldn't even recruit volunteers to man polling stations around JP.
The JP Neighborhood Council has no budget and no actual power. All they have is their claim to represent JP. Which they don't.
"fund that would subsidize purchases at competing markets"
Cracksmoking. By people who have evolved a cross-generational culture of living off public assistance. By people who profiteer on enabling that culture. By well-meaning hippies whose brains we dulled years ago by way too much drugs and free-love STDs.
Why?
Why are the Whose Foods folks so very in favor of subsidizing huge corporate conglomerates? Like they wouldn't immediately raise the prices of the items they carry in response?
They also want to put the bodegas out of business because they think they charge too much for importing stuff that doesn't grow here and doesn't have much market share, destroying employment options for local families who cater to the ethnic foods market. Like a huge conglomerate like Stop and Shop or Shaws is going to charge any less for plantains? Right.
Of course, they can't even talk about teaching people to use more common alternative foods like immigrant communities have often learned to do when they got to MA. I spent a day with some graduate students at a standard grocery store with a locally-produced Albanian cookbook, orienting them to what they could buy here that would approximate what they were accustomed to.
Is This An Issue In The City Council Election Yet?
The arguments pro & con sound appropriately wacky. I heard that Felix Arroyo is anti-WFs. What about Ayanna Pressley? And the two White Guys hiding behind her skirts?
Hilarious
I don't know how many UH readers are South Park fans, but if you recall the season 2 episode "Gnomes", you can find some solace in laughing at a town's reaction that is not all too different from ours.
It is a little saddening, however, as it means that Matt and Trey are unlikely to ever recycle their plots and adapt this JP comedy for the show. If there's ever been a local news item worth of the ridicule of SP, I think this may be it.
I do, however, like that there could be a fund to subsidize my purchases of $8 sandwiches and $13 burgers a little way up Centre Street. No longer will I be bound by the constraints of careful shopping or personal financial responsibility. Bless you, yuppie neighbors, whoever you may be.
Ah,
the gift that keeps on giving!
I did consider attending but I have something much more important to do like wash my socks.
this is still happening?
#IRRELEVANT
Elections coming up for these jokers soon.
Hi, my name is PeterGriffith5
Hi, my name is PeterGriffith5 and I'm a Jamaica Plain Whole Foods Carnival addict.
"I've done well the past few weeks. as the carnival has gone through all it's acts and has begun packing up. I heard one of the
hijackersprotesters on WBUR discussing how post arrest the whose fooders have pulled back and are reassessing their strategy and tactics..."****INCOMING UHUB JPWF UPDATE *****
Doh! [slapping forehead ]
While we're at it, why don't we swap the Walmart in Roxbury with the Whole Foods in JP? - this will provide years worth of entertainment each month.
Having said that, I too will be washing my socks tonight (and then watching them dry) and then I'm going to a meeting.
You know.. if I didnt think
You know.. if I didnt think I'd get pushed out of this meeting, I'd go. As you uhubbers know i'm pretty vocal about how asinine this is. (And I don't even LIVE nearby)
I'd go and just force this poor excuse for a community group to put these same requirements on Stop & Shop, which is right down the street.
I mean really.. what's good for the goose has to be good for the gander. You can't force one store to do this without forcing the other. Then what about other stores like City Feed and smaller, yet chain stores. Are they going to do the same thing to Tedeschi's too? Why should only Whole Foods pay the difference?
I just love how they cry all this PC garbage, yet when you really look it, its just moving their (wrong) agenda forward. I love these folks.. really. (sarcasm) Its never discrimination or something like that when its for their own agenda, and not anyone else. But from an outsiders point of view, it is just simply discrimination and not exactly PC..
I just cannot believe this has gone on as long as it has. I really wish Whole Foods would just pull out and sit on the lease leaving the building empty for the next 20 years just to prove a point to this group that you can't do these things.
Either that, or sell the lease to Wal*Mart and see how far JPNC gets with them. Wally could careless about what the community thinks.
I will be making special trips from my home in REVERE to this new Whole Foods just to buy stuff there to show my support. I actually feel BAD for Whole Foods. And I usually have no love lost for chain stores, particularly Whole Foods.
Indeed
Don't remember anyone ever asking Hi-Lo to be culturally sensitive to the non-Latinos living the area.
Even though I suspect that
Even though I suspect that you and I are much in agreement about the JP Circus, don't worry about Whole Foods.
They've done there homework and know the demographics of the area. I'm sure that this is not the first time that they've run into organized self-appointed defenders of all that is good and virtuous.
I'm willing to bet that these sorts of things are anticipated as part of new store development.
I'll see you at the opening :)
Whole Foods Meeting
What a GD farce.
Idiots.
The people who are opposing Whole Foods in any way, shape or manner are just complete and utter idiots. Even worse are the idiots who are trying to hold up Whole Foods for concessions. I hope I'm not being too vague.