Customer to Publix: “I don’t like Publix’s hardnosed position on farmworkers”…

Customer to Publix: “I don’t like Publix’s hardnosed position on farmworkers”… Over the course of the past six years, Publix has received countless letters from Fair Food supporters, calling on Florida’s hometown supermarket giant to join the Fair Food Program. Tipping Point Encore: From Florida to New Jersey, consumers continue to applaud recent advances of Fair Food Program, decry failure of remaining corporate holdouts to get on board…  Even though we’ve already wrapped up our Tipping Point series — capping off a week of letters and articles from consumers with a round-up of tweets for Publix — messages from the Fair Food Nation continue to stream in!  So, once again, we’d like to interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to share two excellent examples of such letters from the past week, one a note from a longtime shopper right here in Florida and the other a blogpost from a faith leader in New Jersey. First up, in the wake of the recent groundbreaking agreement with Ahold USA (parent company to Giant and Stop & Shop), Rabbi Jesse Olitzky — one of many #TomatoRabbis across the U.S. and a member of T’ruah — took to the blogosphere and hailed the new wave of Fair Food tomatoes coming to the Northeast this fall: Respecting the Rights of Laborers – Locally & Globally After hearing the news over the summer that A&P Supermarkets had declared bankruptcy, I was excited to hear that Stop & Shop Supermarkets would be buying a number of the A&P locations, including Pathmark store which are owned by A&P.  At the end of July, we learned that the Pathmark on Valley Street in South Orange, the closest and most convenient grocery store for many of us in town, would become a Stop & Shop.  This news was not only exciting because this local market would get a much needed facelift, with a cleaner store and more product options.   This was exciting because this means that the fight to end modern day slavery and exploitation of workers in the fields of Florida and across this nation — the fight for human rights of migrant agricultural workers in this country — continues to gain momentum and impact us locally... Check out Rabbi Olitzky's blogpost as well as a thoughtful manager letter to Publix over at the CIW website!

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