My conversation with Safeway(SW) and Trader Joe’s (TJ) managers.
Me to SW: Does Safeway consider Mexico local because under your local produce sections, I find a lot of products from Mexico, even in the Organic Section:
SW: That’s because we can’t bring in local products, they would cost too much for customers.
Me: So you’re using non-local products as local to deceive us?
Silence
Me to Manager at TJ: Why are all your products from Mexico?
I believe in purchasing organic local products.
TJ: IF we brought in local products, our prices will go up.
Me: Okay, so you’re making it difficult for me to shop here.
TJ: Silence
Even packaged vegetables labeled Organic are from Mexico or elsewhere. Do read labels. I don’t purchase products that give you only infor of where they were packaged…no source.
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Yes, good for you Frances. Corti’s has local veggies as does the Farmer’s markets. Also Safe way and Save Mart are not encouraging customers to use reusable sacks. In fact they are making their customers so angry they will vote to overturn the “no plastic sacks.” They use to fold in the cost of sack in your grocery bill…”overhead”. Now they make a big deal about buying a 10cent sack so that we will vote to veto the plastic sack ban. Our oceans and landscapes will suffer if we go back to plastic. Let’s start carrying reusable Trader Joe’s Bags and make these guys feel bad. Or make your own bag. Or buy a 10 cent bag and reuse it. Hey, be creative….use a back pack.
The Safeway clerk at Arden told her customers they’re in the county so they don’t need to use their own bags and there’s no charge for their plastics. Hey Safeway, you are using a boundary line to destroy our planet? You don’t care??? Mary, we should picket Safeway!!!!