Alliance for Fair Food calls for National Supermarket Week of Action

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If you live in the southeastern United States, these two figures might be familiar to you from Publix’s whimsical Thanksgiving season commercials…

But there’s nothing whimsical about the fact that the men and women who do the backbreaking, stoop labor necessary to put food on holiday tables across the nation cannot afford to provide their own families with a decent Thanksgiving meal. Perhaps that’s why it seems that, this Thanksgiving, the salt and pepper-shaker pilgrims have crossed the picket line and are standing with farmworkers and consumers calling for Publix to support the Campaign for Fair Food.

Alliance for Fair Food calls for National Supermarket Week of Action, Nov. 18th to Nov. 26th!

AFF: “This Thanksgiving, when you shop for your turkey, cranberry sauce, and stuffing, drop off a Campaign for Fair Food letter to the store manager!”

Thanksgiving is one of the busiest times of the year for this country’s supermarkets. But this Thanksgiving, give your supermarket more than your money, give them the message that you support fair wages and working conditions for farmworkers.

And we’re not just talking Publix. Wherever you are in the continental US, there is sure to be one of the following stores:

  • The Kroger Co., which includes the following brands: Kroger, Ralph’s, City Market, Dillons, Food 4 Less, Foods Co., Fred Meyer, Fry’s, Gerbes, Hilander, Jay C, King Soopers, Owen’s, Pay Less, QFC, Scott’s, and Smith’s
  • Ahold USA, which includes the following brands: Stop & Shop, Giant, Giant Food Stores, Peapod, and Martin’s
  • Publix (throughout Florida and the southeast)
  • WalMart (virtually everywhere)

It’s easy! Simply click here to go to the Alliance for Fair Food site, download the manager letter, and then deliver the letter to your local grocery store next time you go shopping (be sure to ask the supermarket manager to share your concerns with the company’s corporate headquarters). And, of course, if you don’t see your local grocery store listed here above, feel free to take the letter to whatever supermarket you can!

When you’re done, contact us to let us know what supermarket(s) you visited and how it went. If enough people add the letter drop-off to their Thanksgiving shopping this year, then maybe — just maybe — next holiday season we can all give thanks for a more modern, more humane agricultural industry.