Letter to Ahold: “… Our repeated requests to meet with Harriet Hentges, vice president of corporate responsibility and sustainability for Ahold USA, have met with frustration.”
With the Campaign for Fair Food’s big Spring Supermarket Action less than four months away, it seems that supermarket giant Ahold (owner of the Stop & Shop and Giant grocery chains) is quickly becoming the CIW’s lead organizer in the Boston area, its disdain for consumers’ concerns driving more and more people into the Fair Food fold by the day.
The Massachusetts Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice has been trying to get a meeting with Ahold representatives to discuss their support for the Campaign for Fair Food for months, but Ahold’s social responsibility office has been giving them the run-around. Frustrated, they went up the chain of command and wrote to Stop & Shop’s Jeff Enright (Senior Vice President, Supply Chain). Here are some excerpts from their strongly-worded letter (you can read the letter in its entirety here):