Thinking through this more (there's now a raging debate going on about this is now going on in my home office) my best guess is that Whole Foods has this "evil"

Thinking through this more (there's now a raging debate going on about this is now going on in my home office) my best guess is that Whole Foods has this "evil" image because of their union-busting history. I think the first time I heard someone say that Whole Foods is evil was during a union-busting scandal at a midwestern WF store when I first moved to SF in 2000. It was humorous as I had 2 musician roommates who worked at Whole Foods and it was the best paying, most reliable job they were able to get in San Francisco for their skill-levels/desires.. Us left-coast liberals tend to get up in arms about unions, even though none of us are in them, affected by them, or really touched by them anymore. I would rather buy my groceries from a health-oriented libertarian than from Safeway or Albertsons, which both carry far inferior produce and have religious roots that offend the athiest in me.