Whole Foods is advising managers to “talk about donations” the supermarket chain and its parent Amazon have given to various social justice groups while enforcing dress code policies that ban Black Lives Matter slogans on uniforms or face masks, according to internal documents obtained by the Guardian. The documents circulated in July 2020 to Whole Foods regional managers and store leadership are titled “Resetting Expectations: Dress Code Script”. The script goes on to advise managers to share a statement on Whole Foods’ inclusive culture, to discuss Whole Foods’ inclusion taskforce and then to talk about the donations Whole Foods and Amazon have made to Black Lives Matter, ACLU, NAACP, and several other organizations. “It is very clear that Whole Foods is doing this to stamp out support for Black Lives Matter. Whole Foods workers held Black Lives Matter protests in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, California, Oregon and Washington.

Source: The Guardian August 31, 2020 10:18 UTC