Whole Foods is biting back at a Texas pastor with a countersuit which claims that he fraudulently accused the store of selling him an anti-gay cake.
The grocery chain announced its plans just one day after Austin Pastor Jordan Brown filed a lawsuit over incendiary icing on a cake he bought from the store which read: “Love Wins ***.”
Brown, who is openly gay, says he ordered the custom cake from the Lamar store in Austin, Texas, store to read “Love Wins” and was horrified to tears to see the added word.
But Whole Foods isn’t swallowing it.
The company released surveillance video Tuesday which the store says proves that the cake was tampered with after its purchase on April 14.
The video appears to show Brown in the store’s checkout lane with the item. Whole Foods pointed out in a statement to The Huffington Post that the cake box’s white UPC label appears on the top in the video. “This is evident as the cashier scans the UPC code on top of the box.”
The label’s placement is significant, the company says, because in a video of the cake made by Brown on April 14, the white UPC sticker label appears to seal the box on its side and bottom — not the top.
The company released surveillance video Tuesday which the store says proves that the cake was tampered with after its purchase on April 14.
The video appears to show Brown in the store’s checkout lane with the item. Whole Foods pointed out in a statement to The Huffington Post that the cake box’s white UPC label appears on the top in the video. “This is evident as the cashier scans the UPC code on top of the box.”
