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Whole Foods argues it can ban BLM masks because the Supreme Court let a Christian business owner refuse same-sex couples (fortune.com)
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Amazon.com’s Whole Foods Market doesn’t want to be forced to let workers wear “Black Lives Matter” masks and is pointing to the recent US Supreme Court ruling permitting a business owner to refuse services to same-sex couples to get federal regulators to back off.

National Labor Relations Board prosecutors have accused the grocer of stifling worker rights by banning staff from wearing BLM masks or pins on the job. The company countered in a filing that its own rights are being violated if it’s forced to allow BLM slogans to be worn with Whole Foods uniforms.

Amazon is the most prominent company to use the high court’s June ruling that a Christian web designer was free to refuse to design sites for gay weddings, saying the case “provides a clear roadmap” to throw out the NLRB’s complaint.

The dispute is one of several in which labor board officials are considering what counts as legally-protected, work-related communication and activism on the job.

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

You don't shop at Whole Foods because of it's policies.

I don't shop at Whole Foods because I don't believe in paying $4 for a apple.

We are not the same.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago

It’s $6, grandpa.

[–] Travalanche@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's Amazon/Whole Foods' policies that lead to charging such ridiculous prices for their items. You are the same, even if you don't realize it.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whole Foods was charging ridiculous prices long before Amazon got involved.

[–] Travalanche@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

True. And that hasn't changed either.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I absolutely would be willing to pay 4 or more for an apple, if it were local, and profits go to a local farm. I'm aware that means I eat in-season then too

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So just drive to your local farmers market. Get a pound or two for $5 and cut out the middle man. I go occasionally, I get good deals like $1 massive sweet onions, 3 for $1 bell peppers (like softball sized ones), etc. Go early though, they usually sell before official times and are sold out within 3 hours (restaurants hit them hard)

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I do

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I live very close to the largest continuous fruit growing area in Europe. In-season 5kg crates go for five Euros, at the end of the season as low as one euro for 5kg on clearance. Don't expect fancy-pants new strains to go at that price, though, it's going to be Elstar or Holstein Cox.

And, fun sidenote: Out of season it's indeed more CO2-advantageous for us to import apples from New Zealand than to store them. Buy apple sauce.

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Out of season it’s indeed more CO2-advantageous for us to import apples from New Zealand than to store them

Not necessarily true, it would depend on the how clean the energy source of the refrigeration is. The only other major CO2Eq emission from storage of perishables is refrigerant leakage, but in most commercial scale usages that’s really low.