Here’s the official response. Thank you, Greenlife, for sending this. Here’s my original post.
Response:
I would like to make it clear that we are not against voter registration. I personally feel that voting is of the utmost importance. With this being said I also run a very large business and bear the responsibility of making this a place where no-one is made to feel uncomfortable. We have come up with the following compromise to provide this service to the community while addressing our customers’ wishes:
Voter registration will be allowed on the green space (where the farmers market is held). There may be a large sign displayed (“Voter Registration Here”) so that anyone who desires to register to vote may do so. No one should be confronted or asked if they are registered to vote. Instead people should be left to make the decision on their own. Please have the director of volunteers contact myself or Destin Morris to coordinate this.
We will be happy to offer this service to the community as long as it remains non-partisan and un-invasive to all of our customers.
Respectfully,
Sam Wharton
Store Manager
Greenlife Grocery of Asheville
samw@greenlifegrocery.com
828-254-5440 x1420
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So all the other things they allow right outside the doors don’t leave people feeling uncomfortable? I call bullsh*t on that. Everything they have out front tends to lean left and if anything, this is about as non-partisan as it gets, since it doesn’t ask people to vote for one party or another, simply asks them to register.
Another reason for me to go back to Earth Fare. I used to like Green Life so much but there have been a number of things recently that has increased my displeasure with them.