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Point-by-Point Response to Trader Joe’s second “Note to Our Customers on Florida Tomatoes and the CIW”

Posted on May 23, 2011October 15, 2020 by CIW

What follows is a point-by-point breakdown of Trader Joe's recent "Note to our Customers on Florida Tomatoes and the CIW," with a response to each point by the CIW. It is structured in two columns, with excerpts from Trader Joe's "Note" on the left and the corresponding CIW response on the right. We have posted two more in-depth analyses of >> Read More

Fair Food activists 23, Trader Joe’s 0…

Posted on May 6, 2011October 15, 2020 by CIW

Trader Joe's gets an earful from California to NYC in national weekend of action! This past weekend, frustrated consumers took their feelings to the doorstep of Trader Joe's stores in 23 cities across the country with creative, spirited protests, bringing everything from dozens of balloons in New York City to a parade of puppets in Santa Ana, California. The national >> Read More

CIW Response to Trader Joe’s “A Note to our Customers about Florida Tomatoes”

Posted on April 13, 2011October 15, 2020 by CIW

Confronted with mounting pressure from the Campaign for Fair Food, Trader Joe's recently posted an update to its website entitled, “A Note to our Customers about Florida Tomatoes.” Its key passage states that: “Trader Joe's is working directly with wholesalers and growers to pay an extra penny per pound to all growers from whom we buy tomatoes grown in Florida. >> Read More

Farmworkers to Bike from Immokalee, Carry Iconic Blood-Stained Shirt of Beaten Farmworker to Trader Joe’s

Posted on February 10, 2011August 27, 2020 by CIW

First Florida Opening in Naples Workers, Clergy to Call on Grocery Giant to Sign Fair Food Agreement Immokalee, FL -- A group of tomato pickers will pedal from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Community Center in Immokalee to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Trader Joe's Sunshine State debut on Friday, Feb. 10th at 8 AM. There, joined by local clergy, the >> Read More

SUPERMARKET WEEK OF ACTION November, 2010

Posted on November 25, 2010October 15, 2020 by CIW

The "Renegade Tomatoes" testify outside a Trader Joe's in New York City. Fair Food activists brave the cold at a Stop & Shop in Providence. Lady Gaga and her crew gather at a Berkeley Trader Joe's. While activists hit the street outside a DC-area Giant supermarket... ... with a few of their friends. In Pensacola, Publix is the focus of >> Read More

Supermarket Week of Action Nov. 18-26, 2009

Posted on November 27, 2009October 15, 2020 by CIW

In Baltimore, Fair Food activists took their rights as consumers seriously and visited several stores, including this Giant grocery, to be heard... ... by managers, who received the CIW manager letter in stores across the country, like this one in DC. Here's an excerpt of what the managers read: "As a customer of your supermarket, I am contacting you to >> Read More