Publix, Kroger, Stop & Shop reminded that the Campaign for Fair Food waits for no one!

We don’t know about you, but after a week of intense focus on Trader Joe’s — thanks to some surprisingly scurrilous stuff put out there by the supposedly progressive grocery chain — this website is ready to get back to the rest of the Campaign for Fair Food, and, lucky for us, the Campaign has been quite active across the supermarket industry!

From St. Augustine, Florida, Jo Anne Engelbert (Coordinator of the local Amnesty International group there) writes of a manager letter action that took place at six area Publix stores:

“This is a photo (above) taken on May 26, 2011 of four members of the St. Augustine local group of Amnesty International delivering letters urging the manager of a Publix Supermarket to work with Coalition of Immokalee Workers to provide fair wages to tomato pickers. The campaign was waged by AI members at all six Publix supermarkets in St. Augustine. Our goal is to deliver 100 letters to managers by June 1. The members, from left to right, are Uldis Golts, Rita Golts, Jo Anne Engelert, and Gene Schepers. Good luck with your campaign. One of our members told the manager that she would never shop at Publix again until the penny-a-pound increase has been implemented.”

Meanwhile, in the middle of this great country, representatives from “the Fair Food Kingdom in the City of Lawrence from the Land of Kansas” (aka, Lawrence Fair Food) playfully reminded a local Dillon store (one of the many chains owned by grocery giant Kroger) of its responsibility to do its part in improving wages and working conditions in Florida’s tomato fields.

While back east (and north), Boston’s own “Sass Attack” visited a couple of Stop & Shop stores, calling on the Ahold-owned chain to end the exploitation of farmworkers in Florida and enter into a Fair Food agreement with the CIW. You can find more pictures like the one below by clicking here:

The action never stops in the Campaign for Fair Food!