Whole Foods CEO Sonned By FTC In Message Board Trolling Beef

I heard about this on the radio. One of my favorite details was that he defended his haircut. What a maroon.

"I never intended any of those postings to be identified with me."

"I like Mackey's haircut," Rahodeb said. "I think he looks cute!"

The modern Narcissus.

Rahodeb sometimes sparred with other users. "Your quarterly cash flow variance isn't statistically meaningful because the time period is too short," he told a user who criticized Whole Foods in March 2006. Rahodeb then pasted a summary of the previous six years of the company's operating cash flow, saying that over five years it "has increased 330%."

zing

do yahoo boards have an exelsior thread?

haha this is fantastic

He said he had lost a bet with "hubris12000" about Whole Foods' stock performance, and the bet's terms required that he quit posting.

This should replace our Banning Polls.

i had a moment of severe panic because i thought this might be about my posts to ilx

Don't worry John, your secret's safe with us.

my hair looks good today :-)

anyway i have e-mailed this article to my co-workers at w!ld o@ts, hopefully they have some inside gossip

New Yorker on Whole Foods CEO John Mackey Long, somewhat inconclusive, but worth reading.

lol:

for nearly eight years, he had been secretly logging onto an Internet message board devoted to Whole Foods stock under the sock puppet, or pseudonym, “rahodeb” (an anagram of Deborah, his wife’s name), praising his own company, disparaging Wild Oats, and throwing in a flattering remark about his hair (“I think he looks cute!”).

whole socks

should get xposted to sockspotting imo.

can the new yorker out some of our sockpuppets plz

and just like that...

Whole Foods' resident corporate nutbar, CEO John Mackey, just had a lengthy profile in this week's New Yorker, which was just the latest instance of his, ahem, eccentric ways of dealing with the media. But now comes the news that he's relinquishing his title of chairman. Mackey will still be the company's CEO, but the surprising move—he's held the chairman title since 1978—means that he'll be less ubiquitous as the public face of Whole Foods.
As Gawker points out, many groups—headed by ctW Investment Group, shareholder activists that work with union pension funds—have been begging for the controversial agitator Mackey to step down for months, arguing for a separation of the two roles.

I say let your freak flags fly, CEOs.