Question: Why does a major grocery store chain need a “comprehensive policy addressing climate change”?
Answer: They don’t.
The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that one of the nations oldest and largest grocery firms, Kroger Inc., based in Cincinnati, OH rejected a shareholder proposal which called for the company to develop a comprehensive policy addressing climate change.
Having shopped at many a Kroger store myself, I’m glad I won’t be bombared with climate change messages while I shop. I really don’t need to know what the carbon footprint is on a can of soup or a head of lettuce.
Cincinnati-based Kroger (NYSE: KR) operates more than 2,400 supermarkets and multidepartment stores in 31 states.
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Actually, the price increases that would attend such a policy are, by far, more irksome.
To give an example of how we are being bombarded by this stuff, I was listening to KCBS radio in San Francisco when I was on the freeway on an errand. They had a fellow on the air being interviewed about the smoky air and the question of health impact came up. He was the perfect propagandist saying all the right things like:
“While wood smoke isn’t as bad as vehicle emissions, the health impacts are similar”
Translation: While both kinds of particulates are just as bad for you, wood particulates aren’t nearly as “evil”.
Then he started into:
“Oh, and I want to remind people that wood smoke from wild fires is going to become more common with climate change …” that’s when my finger hit the button to another station.
Warmer = wetter
Cooler = dryer
There would be a lot more fires with a cooling climate than with a warming one.
Good for Kroger.
Did the loon mean that forest fires stay about the same, but that their smoke gets more common, or that fires get more common?
I’m glad he said “wood smoke from wild fires”, otherwise we wouldn’t know what kind of smoke wildfires generate.
Grass smoke wouldn’t be something they’d want to limit in California, thus the qualifier.
I too am sick and tired of being bombarded with the “green” message. Hopefully this is a sign that some of these companies are realizing that most of their customers will realize that they are being patronized, and just roll their eyes and move on. Like me.
Good for them!
A company’s objectives should be about providing value {preferably increasing value} to their customers and increasing value to the shareholders {their owners}. This is just another example of the environmental movement run amuck, trying to force their belief system on everyone without offering any value in return.
Just for that I’m gonna run to Kroger and pick up a few big fat steaks, some charcoal, mesquite chips and a 12er.
Noticed Wal Mart is starting to sell a lot of “Green”foods..Problem is the costs are on the average higher than traditional foods. Campbell Soups is a big one…Haven’t bought any yet and probably won’t until costs come down or We have no choice but to buy!
Wattsup: Is that prairie grass smoke or weed grass smoke?
“Problem is the costs are on the average higher than traditional foods.”
That is pretty much typical across the entire economy. It is called “greenwashing” or “environmental entrepreneurs”. They slap a “green” label on it and jack up the price because in many cases the ones who feel the most enviro-guilt and think they can make a difference simply by spending money on the right things are pretty well off. Rich white urbanites, mostly.
Thank you, Kroger!
Glad they still know what business they are in, and still know how to do that well.
SHOCK CLAIM: NO ICE AT NORTH POLE THIS SUMMER
http://drudgereport.com/
Good for Kroger. If they develop a “green” policy, might as well start flushing hundred dollar bills down the toilet for all the good it would do.
One of the old jokes (that may be true more often that it should) is that the best way to sell days old, beat up produce is to jack up the price and slap the “organic” label on it.
Here’s a GW policy for ya: links on the Kroger website to Watts Up With That and Climate Audit.
DR – Did something strike you as odd that the ice at the North Pole would disappear this summer because it is all first-year ice and more prone to melting? If it is really first-year ice, then there was no ice at the North Pole in 2007 and we know there was. Yet another AGW logical fallacy I would suspect.
Back on topic – good, I’ll shop at Kroger when in the U.S.
ZZMike, wasn’t it this past winter that some San Fran councilmember proposed banning all residential chimney fires? Pretty soon the wingnuts are going to pursue the bbq industry like Weber and Kingsford.
Various media do not seem to understand that we can and will change channels and/or use the off button.
I’m still ticked off that Discovery Home ditched some great building shows in favor of “green” programming which is amazingly lame. That channel no longer exists for me.
Wow, I can see it now, no freezers and no lights in the store. Of course the gas station would need to be shut down. Horses and carriages would deliver the products that are all packaged in new green materials. Anything that uses energy to produce anything would be banned. Hum, I wonder if China is doing this?
There is a million km more ice today than there was on this date last year in the Arctic.
All we are missing in this country is the “goose step”.
Where will all this silliness lead?
Way to go Kroger. I shop there every week, and I don’t need a bunch of climate change crap in my face. Its annoying enough at my own company which changed all the lamps to flourescents over this nonsense. All the people that are worried about climate change shop at Whole Foods anyhow, let them do the climate change nonsense in their store.
I wonder if Ol jimmy hansen is going to call for their arrest too? Probably not, he’s too busy not speaking as George and friends keep shutting him up. Must have been his evil twin brother in front of Congress.
I shop at King Soupers which is a sister company of Krogers. In the winter they keep the large front doors open and the heat on high near the doors. Thus, the climate changes dramatically as soon as you step in the store. Very welcome climate change, thanks!
Nevertheless, keeping the doors open seems incredibly wasteful. They should really stop doing that.
I was just going to google up Vaclav Klaus, because one of his essays from the occupied era of Czechia applied rather well to this. It was about quiet submission to the lie of communism.
But on the way to google somehow my browser got highjacked to this page,
ie 7 downloads.
“Plant a tree in the Carbon Grove”, it says, “Learn how to reduce your carbon footprint. To plant a tree, download internet explorer today!”
Bill Gates isn’t even retired officially yet and already Microsoft is going to hell in a handbasket.