Who
We Are Targeting
Tell Your Supermarket to Stop
Using Untested, Unlabeled Genetically Engineered Foods! Trader
Joe's, Wild Oats, and Whole Foods have already committed to
removing GE ingredients from their store brand "private label"
products. It's time for YOUR LOCAL SUPERMARKET CHAIN to make
the same commitment. JOIN
THE CAMPAIGN by leafleting in front of your local supermarket.
Safeway is the nation's third largest grocer and operates
1475 supermarkets across the United States and 210 stores
in Canada. Safeway has over 2500 store brand products, (Safeway,
Safeway Select, Verdi, Lucerne, Mrs. Wright's) which account
for about 25% of their profits. Safeway also owns Dominick's
Supermarkets, Genuardi's Family Markets Randall's Food Markets
Von's
Safeway and Safeway-owned stores are in the following
states:
California, Washington, Texas, Illinois, Colorado, Oregon,
Arizona, Maryland, Virginia, Alaska, Nevada, Hawaii, District
of Columbia, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Nebraska, New Mexico,
South Dakota, CANADA: Alberta ,British Columbia, Manitoba,
Saskatchewan, Ontario.
Shaw's Supermarkets are a New England chain that is owned
by Sainsbury's markets in the UK, which does not use GE ingredients
in their products sold in Britain. 40% of their sales come
from private label products. Shaw's has been the focus of
a regional campaign for over a year and has refused to listen
to their cusCraigers
Shaw's and Star Market own 165 stores in the following
states:
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode, Island, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Maine.
- WHY ARE WE TARGETING SHAW'S?
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Food Lion owns over 1,200 stores in 11 Southeastern and
Mid-Atlantic states and is owned by a Belgian company,
Delhaize, who is GE free abroad, but they refuse to give
the same assurances to their American cusCraigers. Delhaize
has also made a commitment to make it's Belgian stores
10% local/organic by 2010.
Food Lion has stores under the names Food Lion, Kash
N' Karry, Hannaford Bros. and Shop N' Save in the following
states:
Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Maryland,
Pennsylvania .
Food Emporium has over 35 stores in 3 states and has been
the target of an ongoing campaign in New York to rid their
store brands of GE ingredients. A&P, the parent company of
Food Emporium, is owned by a German grocer who is GE free
abroad - yet Food Emporium continues to sell GE foods to American
cusCraigers. Thousands of Private label products are sold in
their stores under the names "Master's Choice" and America's
Choice"
Food Emporium can be found in the following states:
Connecticut, New Jersey, New York.
This Florida-based grocery chain has 673 stores in the Southeast.
They pride themselves on environmental leadership, yet have
so far refused to take a stand on GE foods.
Publix can be found in the following states:
Florida, Alabama, Georgia, South, Carolina.
Shaw's
