2025-04-23
50 分钟第 109 季 第 2 集
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It's 1990 and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is in Berkeley, California.
He's on a visit to the company's newest store.
As Mackie passes the picket line and reaches the store entrance, the protesters jeer at him.
Once inside, Mackie makes a beeline for the store's manager.
Who the hell are all those people out there?
Do they even work for us?
No, they don't.
They used to work at the old co-op.
The building that is now a Whole Foods used to be a grocery store run by the Berkeley Co-op.
The co-op was a darling of the city's progressive movement.
But two years ago, it went bankrupt.
Mackey gives the store manager a puzzled look.
So why are they protesting against us?
Because our workers voted against unionization.
They see us as the evil corporation taking things over.
Mackey rolls his eyes.
Back when he lived in a hippie co-op, he thought like that too.
Whole Foods may have grown out of the hippie movement,