No, Whole Foods Did Not Name Mitch McConnell Person of the Year

Amazon's chain had to repeat it's not associated with WholeFoods Magazine

In addition to sharing wine pairings and hacks for a stress-free Thanksgiving with its 4.4 million followers, Amazon’s upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market had to repeatedly clarify over the long weekend that it did not name Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell its 2019 Person of the Year.

It was the monthly trade magazine WholeFoods (no space), which gave McConnell the distinction because of his work to legalize hemp. The digital issue notes McConnell made the most substantial impact from cannabis to climate change on the natural products industry as the politician who “planted the seeds of CBD’s

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