Trader Joe’s Northeast Tour
August 2-12, 2011
Final Report
Portland, ME, Northampton, MA
(click here for full schedule)
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![]() … and when it was time to choose a delegation to talk to the manager, no one wanted to stay behind! |
![]() From Maine, the tour crew began making its way back south with a stop in Northampton, MA, where the supermarket may have changed — it was a Stop & Shop in Northampton, Trader Joe’s in Portland — but the Fair Food allies in Northampton shared the inclination of their Portland brethren to go en masse in the delegation to meet the manager. |
![]() But even before the Stop & Shop protest, the Tour crew joined a lively action outside a Verizon office as part of the 45,000-person strike against outsourcing and cutting of jobs and benefits at Verizon. |
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