Here’s the stock chart for Whole Foods over the past five days:

Wall Street, it seems, doesn’t think the Left’s temper tantrum will have much of an effect.

One other thing to keep in mind, Whole Foods is as much of a real-estate company as it is a grocery store. This article is from 2005, but I don’t think the basics have changed much. If anything, I think marquee names like Whole Foods will be more attractive to developers in a down real-estate market:

Now Whole Foods is becoming a trailblazer in the real estate industry. Developers want the stores to anchor swank new residential projects in up and coming or pioneering urban neighborhoods from San Francisco to Miami.
Everybody Wins. “They are a wonderful amenity for residents. That’s the key,” said Fred Harris, senior vice president of Avalon Bay Communities.
Whole Foods will take up a full city block of retail space at Avalon’s new Chrystie Place, a 350-unit luxury rental apartment building under construction on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. At 65,000 square feet, it’ll be the largest supermarket in Manhattan, second only to another Whole Foods at the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle.
Time Warner’s Center’s Whole Foods is one of the top-performing stores in the chain, Whole Foods executives say. The 58,000-square foot store takes up the basement level of the 55-story twin complex, which includes 200 ultra luxury condos, offices, high-end restaurants and a vertical retail mall.
“There’s certainly a momentum to do more,” said Chris Pine, Whole Foods real estate executive, adding that the food chain is swamped with calls from residential and mixed-use developers. “We’ll do these in most major markets in the U.S.”

Actually, there’s a brand new Whole Foods about to open on the Upper West Side in New York City that conforms to the vision above. When it does, I’ll take pictures of all the Obama voters in the store ignoring calls for a boycott.