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Starting in January, Giant Food will have updated labels on its shelves, website and mobile app to better promote products from women- and minority-owned businesses, the grocery chain announced in a press release on Monday.
The labels, which will roll out at all 164 Giant Food stores across the greater Washington, D.C., region, will identify products from "Women, Black, Asian-Indian, Hispanic, LGBT, Asian-Pacific, or Veteran owned" businesses, according to the announcement. The grocer said 218 businesses in its vendor network qualify as minority-owned.
Giant Food also plans to highlight its supplier diversity with storytelling initiatives and product spotlights on a new supplier page of its e-commerce site.
so its no longer "you are what you eat", its "you are whose food you eat"
Got it? Got it.
How about instead of this, they just start labeling the shelves with what country the product comes from so those of us who want to support America can find it easier to do so.
How about instead of this, they just start labeling the shelves with what country the product comes from so those of us who want to support America can find it easier to do so.
This. ^^^ And I make a concerted effort NOT to buy anything from China. That's a challenge.
After all the grief Goya took, that's the first aisle I stop in at the store....I buy what I can from their products and they are good products.
I was in Giant when an announcement came over the PA suggesting that we could go on the Internet to see which brands were owned by blacks - obviously encouraging us to make purchasing decisions based on the skin color of the owner.
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I was in Giant when an announcement came over the PA suggesting that we could go on the Internet to see which brands were owned by blacks - obviously encouraging us to make purchasing decisions based on the skin color of the owner.
This racism has got to stop.
Yes. The sexism too. Buying from a business simply because it is woman-owned is stupid. Just more affirmative action BS.
I will, however, feel good about spending my dollars with a business owned by and employing Veterans.
"The labels, which will roll out at all 164 Giant Food stores across the greater Washington, D.C., region, will identify products from "Women, Black, Asian-Indian, Hispanic, LGBT, Asian-Pacific, or Veteran owned" businesses, according to the announcement. The grocer said 218 businesses in its vendor network qualify as minority-owned."
So if this is what they are doing, that is great!
I love transparency.
It allows me to support products/vendors I support ( ex..veterans) and avoid the woke/lefty idiot companies I do not want to support.
Perfect!
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