Safeway is American...
Here's the Wikipedia for the Safeway founders history and it's headquarters was in Salt Lake City which seems pretty Mormon to me :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skaggs_family
But I don't shop there because in 2004, 84% of their political donations went to Republicans and the CEO Steven A. Burd was a "Ranger", giving $200,000 to Bush... I would rather not support the companies that elect and re-elect the people that support illegal wars that have killed thousands
http://vfp92.org/CorporateDonors.html
posted by Bird @ 9:45 PM
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Hahahahahaha. Funny stuff.
Well, the original origins of Safeway were by some guy named Skaggs. Yes, American, although maybe he did come over on a boat from England. I concede. What do I know about grocery stores? But it is okay that your brother works for Kroger. Hmmmm. Wonder who they give too.
I believe if you dig it all up the family was from Misery (this is where the Skaggs family who are behind Safeway I just learned). Had a ton of stores there. I think his name was Marion. Then he moved west, but not to Utah. He was not a Mormon. One of the Skaggs broke off from the family and went to Utah and married a Mormon. If you marry a Mormon you somehow lose all of your previous self worth and identity and become part of the lemming collective.
They started some stores, but not Safeway at that point. Somewhere along the line the names changed. You probably saw all this on the site. Safeway started buying up everything, including the other Skaggs places in Utah. There is the Mormon tag.
If you found where it was all Mormon all the time that is odd. Because it is not. Safeway went belly up (almost) in the 90s and sold off everything (including the British stores) and reformed. When it came back around it was with British money (look at the primary investors) and headquartered somewhere out in California, not Utah. The days of the Skaggs and Lynches having their hands in it are long gone. It is a multinational now. At some point it has been tied to Longs and Albertsons. etc.
I am sure you could pull up some nastiness on just about any place. Even the companies that line the Demos’ coffers. Give the money to the democrats and see there bright ideas on Iraq, which frankly should have been dealt with an Anfal rather than now; and used the UN charter on genocide to do so. The congressional Dems do not seem to have many ideas there either, unfortunately, and very little backbones to stand up to what is clearly incompetence back by a skilled propaganda machine.
Hey, though, Emily misses you terribly. Ha. Read that book by Bienart. The guy is right on.
Other places to follow to the church: Rite-Aid (you do not have that?), Dominos.
As far as giving money to “elect” an administration that “supports” illegal wars I guess you will have to look pretty far and wide to see companies that do not give to both parties. Unfortunately the GOP is linked with big business. I do think it odd though that the far left would have us just bring our entire presence home and leave the country to fall into a morass that might make the current state look like a Disney movie. This is where I break with the out-of-touch left. They complain, but really do not offer any sort of real world answers beyond digging up more complaints against the opposing party. It is rather unproductive and the complaints generally only fall on the ears of the choir.
It took forever to find this thing. But now Emily can see herself on the web and note your odd ramblings of the reality-hampered liberal blogosphere. Thanks again for everything on the trip. Damn, you watch a lot of Internet TV.
Peace out.
Tim
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