Whole Foods Blasted Online After Making Sandwiches for National Guard troops

[MechAg94]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/04/28/whole-foods-defends-criticism-over-social-media-post-were-all-baltimoreans/

This whole thing is getting entertaining, especially since I am down in Texas instead of Maryland. 

As Baltimore's poorest kids are left hungry due to school closure (no school lunch), @WholeFoods feeds the oppressor https://t.co/5maDJK5crX

If all this is actually true, sounds like they need assemble all the CPS offiicers from around the state and send to Baltimore. 

[vaskidmark]

So Whole Foods, which says it contributes to feeding programs at community centers, is now expected to make home deliveries to the underfed poor kids whose only nourishment is from school breakfast and lunch programs.  Got it!

A while back I found out just how much food local grocery stores were contributing to feeding programs - and how big a tax writeoff they were claiming.  It's not all altruistic giving but the end result is that feeding programs and food banks are providing a wider selection of food to a larger audience.  There used to be a semi-thriving "fresh to frozen" marketing scheme* until grocery corps found out how profitable donating could be.

stay safe.

* - "fresh to frozen" = stuff just before or at sell-by date is sold (better some money than none) to outfit that flash freezes it and then offers it for sale as frozen food (again better some money than none).

[wmenorr67]

I like some of the comments that were posted on FoxNews.com in relation to this story.  A lot of them asking the question, how do the children eat on the weekends, holidays, and/or during the summer?

[DustinD]

What if Whole Foods just doesn't want its stores on fire or even 'just looted'? I don't trust the impromptu community social just warriors to redistribute the food that they liberate to the hungry kids.

[wmenorr67]

Hell I bet several of those NG Soldiers would have been more the happy and willing to share their MRE's with the hungry little tykes.

[dogmush]

<--Gonna be practical.

Money says that the NG guys went and got the food from WF.  And had the teachers/guardians of the vibrant little tykes gone to WF for help they could have had some sammichs too.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there probably isn't a Whole Foods in the parts of Baltimore currentlly on fire, or in the 'hoods where the hungry little tykes live.  'Jus Sayin'.

[lupinus]

Good for whole foods.

If the feral practitioners of Ebonics are so worried about feeding they're kids they can loot a can of spaghetti o's instead of a TV next time.

[SADShooter]

<--Gonna be practical.

Money says that the NG guys went and got the food from WF.  And had the teachers/guardians of the vibrant little tykes gone to WF for help they could have had some sammichs too.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there probably isn't a Whole Foods in the parts of Baltimore currentlly on fire, or in the 'hoods where the hungry little tykes live.  'Jus Sayin'.

I heard/read something to sugest that there were NO grocery stores at all in the area, which made wrecking the CVS, which presumably stocked some food items, all the more incomprehensible.

[T.O.M.]

I like some of the comments that were posted on FoxNews.com in relation to this story.  A lot of them asking the question, how do the children eat on the weekends, holidays, and/or during the summer?

FYI...In the summer, the fed program for free lunches still operates.  Kids can go to some schools and get a meal for free.  My son and his friends scammed this program last year.  After cross country practice, they walked over to the school and ate lunch for free.  Since they are enrolled at the school, that was all that mattered, and the school enjoyed having added numbers showing that they were promoting the program, which in turn got them more grant money.

[wmenorr67]

FYI...In the summer, the fed program for free lunches still operates.  Kids can go to some schools and get a meal for free.  My son and his friends scammed this program last year.  After cross country practice, they walked over to the school and ate lunch for free.  Since they are enrolled at the school, that was all that mattered, and the school enjoyed having added numbers showing that they were promoting the program, which in turn got them more grant money.

I'm aware that some of the programs offer this service during summer breaks and such.  Just one of those issues where too many people now-a-days wants everyone else to take care of them and their "problems" instead of doing for themselves.

[MechAg94]

<--Gonna be practical.

Money says that the NG guys went and got the food from WF.  And had the teachers/guardians of the vibrant little tykes gone to WF for help they could have had some sammichs too.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there probably isn't a Whole Foods in the parts of Baltimore currentlly on fire, or in the 'hoods where the hungry little tykes live.  'Jus Sayin'.

They were thinking of opening an alternative branch called 'Ho Foods.
 

[HankB]

I heard/read something to sugest that there were NO grocery stores at all in the area, which made wrecking the CVS, which presumably stocked some food items, all the more incomprehensible.

Some people haven't learned not to cr@p where they live.

Either that, or it's the fault of Bush and the GOP.

[bedlamite]

I heard/read something to sugest that there were NO grocery stores at all in the area, which made wrecking the CVS, which presumably stocked some food items, all the more incomprehensible.

Several in the area were looted, big chains and small stores.

[SADShooter]

OK. Thanks. I think this was early on and referenced a specific neighborhood. Noteworthy that, while the store in the first pic had a produce section, King's "Grocery" Mart advertises "cigarretes, cigars, sodas, & candy". Not a food desert, per se, but maybe a food dessert...

[bedlamite]

OK. Thanks. I think this was early on and referenced a specific neighborhood. Noteworthy that, while the store in the first pic had a produce section, King's "Grocery" Mart advertises "cigarretes, cigars, sodas, & candy". Not a food desert, per se, but maybe a food dessert...

I wouldn't expect Kings to have a full produce section, but the '& more' probably included some actual food, although I expect the looters went in after Newport's and Skittles rather than broccoli and asparagus.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

I like some of the comments that were posted on FoxNews.com in relation to this story.  A lot of them asking the question, how do the children eat on the weekends, holidays, and/or during the summer?

We have a truck that delivers lunches to certain areas in the summer and they pack back packs of food fir some of the free lunch kids to take home on Friday so they can eat over weekend.
I am less bothered by that than many other giveaways


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[Andiron]

We have a truck that delivers lunches to certain areas in the summer and they pack back packs of food fir some of the free lunch kids to take home on Friday so they can eat over weekend.
I am less bothered by that than many other giveaways


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Grunts getting chow from the Roach Coach isn't a new thing 

[Firethorn]

I'm surprised that they didn't distinguish between National Guard troops, which are merely there to end the destructive rioting, and the police that caused the issue in the first place.

Then again, I'm not surprised.

[Boomhauer]

I'm surprised that they didn't distinguish between National Guard troops, which are merely there to end the destructive rioting, and the police that caused the issue in the first place.

Then again, I'm not surprised.

Everybody who isn't aligned with the rioters is the enemy to them.

[bedlamite]

Everybody who isn't aligned with the rioters is the enemy to them.

Ah, so you're either with us or you're with the enemy, is that it?

[vaskidmark]

Ah, so you're either with us or you're with the enemy, is that it?

Not quite.

If you are with us for the wrong reasons you are also the enemy.

stay safe.