Whole Foods CEO calls activist investors ‘greedy bastards’ as shareholders accuse chain of ‘hemorrhaging’ customers (WFM)

Reuters/Lucy Nicholson Whole Foods’ founder and CEO had harsh words for an activist investor hedge fund that criticized the grocery chain as it struggles to improve its business.  CEO John Mackey called activist investor Jana Partners “greedy bastards” in an series of interviews with Texas Monthly. He also referred to them as “Ringwraiths,” which are villainous characters from […]