Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films, the team who made Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, are currently working on a shocking new exposé titled "Supermarket Swindle" which focuses on how America’s supermarket titans, with corporate market caps in the billions and yearly salaries in the megamillions, have swindled their employees out of fair wages and benefits, resulting in thousands of children going without healthcare and their parents unable to afford even basic, human needs. Learn more at SupermarketSwindle.com.
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I already shop at Costco and Trader Joes after the last strike now permanently... Here's an idea to help build up the power of workers more here! Join forces with the movement created by the Live Earth concert and hand out cloth grocery bags with big labels on them "Save the planet AND working america. Take this bag to replace plastic bags and shop someplace else!" Only offer it to those who don't cross the picket line. Perhaps at some point if enough people turn away from the stores, minimally we'll get Ralphs, Vons, Albertsons to more actively carry these bags for their customers to avoid losing them, and grocery workers could be credited towards helping with that effort, which will help them curry more favor with a large segment of shoppers and their shopping habits!