Clarice wrote to Giant and got this reply:
Hello Clarice,
Thank you for taking the time to contact us.
At Giant Food, we value our stakeholders’ diversity - associates, customers, and vendors - as one of our greatest strengths. We are committed to fostering and maintaining an open and inclusive environment where all are welcome in our stores and organization.
At Giant Food, we are committed to making it easier for customers to identify product attributes that are important to them by fostering a diverse and inclusive network of suppliers that reflects the unique backgrounds and experiences of our Giant family, our customers, and our communities. The new shelf labels are just one example of Giant’s commitment to giving customers the tools they need to quickly identify products with characteristics that are important to them. In 2017, Giant rolled out the HowGood rating system which identifies products based on factors ranging from ingredient sourcing to labor practices. In 2018, Giant also launched Guiding Stars, the nutrition navigation program that takes the guesswork out of nutrition by decoding product labels into one clear rating.
The new shelf labels initiative comes as part of Giant’s supplier diversity efforts in developing strong relationships with businesses that offer quality products, excellent customer service and competitive prices to shoppers. We continually work towards providing a better, safer, more inclusive, and convenient work and shopping experience for all our stakeholders.
Again, thank you for taking the time to contact Giant Food.
Sincerely,
Adam S
Specialist, Customer Care
So, if you are a heterosexual white male, and own a company that makes products sold in supermarkets, this practice identified you the same way that the Jude sign in Nazi Germany identified stores to boycott. And Giant, Ahold Delhaize, and Supermarket News are all fine with it.
As one Facebook commenter put it,
“Could anything be better designed to get us at each other’s throats? To return us to the xenophobia and tribalism woven into our animal natures that civilization takes generations upon generations to mitigate?”
The answer is no.
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