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Posted by jessehaff on June 18th, 2007

Watch the Supermarket Swindle teaser trailer, a new film by Robert Greenwald

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.

Leslie

I can't believe the price of living has only gone up 12.something percent. Medical Insurance premiums alone have more than doubled in the last 5 or so years, and have tripled over the last 10. Back at the height of the gas extortion movement perpetuated on Americans by the Oil industry during the Bush Administration's Hey-Day, gas was taking an extra hundred to two hundred dollars a month right out of the grocery budgets of average Americans. The rich may think this is a Recession, but for the lower classes it has been a Depression for many many years now.

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lbertsons 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!

Mike

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!

Aanya

The last grocery strike is still fresh in our minds. This time I plan to "counter strike". I have several Stater Bros markets close by, and a Jon's Market. I have a huge new Sam's Club and my Target and Walmart sell groceries this time around. I even have a beautiful brand new remodeled "Trader Joes"! If this strike does materialize, I will never, and I repeat never go back to the big three. Vons, Albertsons and Ralphs will only see my backside as I shop at any place other than their mercenary, money grubbing, overpriced emporiums of food stuff!