Damned if I know, but consider this: on Saturday, an anonymous poster left the following comment on this news post on the Rahodeb scandal:
Anonymous said...
Balderdash. So what. I like Whole Foods--the service, the quality of foods, and, yes, the atmosphere.I can buy fresh Whole Foods or Kroger "Old Foods." Example: gladiolus at $3.99 (fresh) at Whole Foods at $3.33 (on the verge of decay) at Kroger.Let me say: fresh is worth $.66.
Aside from the fact that it's a total non-sequitor to the issue at hand, it also doesn't match any of the style or syntax from the Usual Suspects around here who post comments anonymously.
That same day, Google Analytics tells me that I had a visitor from El Paso, Texas, down the road from Whole Foods' Austin head office, who was referred here by a link from Herb Greenberg's MarketWatch blog on the same subject.
Coincidence? I think not.
So, in good muckraking tabloid fashion, I'll put it this way: I don't know that John "Rahodeb" Mackey trolled Lee Distad's Professional Opinion, but I don't know that he didn't!
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Anonymous said...
Balderdash. So what. I like Whole Foods--the service, the quality of foods, and, yes, the atmosphere.I can buy fresh Whole Foods or Kroger "Old Foods." Example: gladiolus at $3.99 (fresh) at Whole Foods at $3.33 (on the verge of decay) at Kroger.Let me say: fresh is worth $.66.
Aside from the fact that it's a total non-sequitor to the issue at hand, it also doesn't match any of the style or syntax from the Usual Suspects around here who post comments anonymously.
That same day, Google Analytics tells me that I had a visitor from El Paso, Texas, down the road from Whole Foods' Austin head office, who was referred here by a link from Herb Greenberg's MarketWatch blog on the same subject.
Coincidence? I think not.
So, in good muckraking tabloid fashion, I'll put it this way: I don't know that John "Rahodeb" Mackey trolled Lee Distad's Professional Opinion, but I don't know that he didn't!
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Funny, I wonder the same thing about a cooment left on my "Force for Good" blog... Mackey's "rahodeb" behavior was certainly terribly unethical; the FTC and others will decide if it was criminal. (You also have to be amazed at the brazen ego this guy must have to trumpet his best-in-the-universe commitment to transparency on his own blog until it was revealed that for seven years he cowered behind an alias while talking up his company's stock and trashing a competitor's stock, that would soon become his company's target in a hostile takeover.) The media and much of the blogosphere is indeed letting him off remarkably easy. Why? Because the media archetype is for evil big corporate CEOs to do the bad things, not the CEO of a compnay like Whole Foods. Imagine for a minute that the CEO of Exxon or Wal-Mart had done what Mackey did -- get ready for some serious outrage! For more, see:
http://jon8332.typepad.com/force_for_good/2007/07/whole-foods-ceo.html
I was charmed that you would let just any riffraff comment on Whole Foods. Seriously though, surely company lawyers have finally taken away his access to computers and perhaps even taped his fingers together? If not, why not?
Of course he may have just hired a PR person to run his online PR campaign for him. There is precedent for such a thing.
That may well be, Mr Scipio, but it still neither helps nor makes it all okay.
In fact, if that were true, it would be a page taken from the "Dig Yourself In Even Deeper" handbook of CEO Disaster Management. We all know how well that always works out.
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