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Fool Video: David Gardner on Mackey's Hidden Messages

By Motley Fool Staff – Updated Nov 14, 2016 at 11:45PM

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NASDAQ: WFM

Whole Foods Market, Inc.

What do John Mackey's hidden messages mean for investors in Whole Foods?

Whole Foods (NASDAQ:WFMI) CEO John Mackey, using the name "Rahodeb," posted more than 1,300 times on Yahoo!'s (NASDAQ:YHOO) Whole Foods message board from 1999 to 2006. What should investors make of the news? Should Mackey resign? Should shareholders be resigned to lower returns? In this installment of Fool Video, I ask Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner.

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