This is ridiculous
This weekend, let’s show Kroger that we mean business by doing our grocery shopping elsewhere.
Don’t have Kroger in your state? Skip these Kroger-owned brands:
Baker’s, City Market, Dillons, Food4Less, Foods Co, Fred Meyer, Fry’s Food Stores, Gerbes, Harris Teeter, Jay C Food Stores, King Soopers, Owen’s, Pay Less Super Markets, QFC, Ralphs, Smith’s Food & Drug
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Tell Kroger: #GroceriesNotGuns
A grocery store is one of the last places we should expect to see someone openly carrying a loaded weapon. But Kroger, the largest grocery chain in the country, has policies that allow customers to openly carry guns in its stores – where families shop every day.
Most states have weak gun laws that let people openly carry guns even if they haven’t had a background check or training. Private businesses like Kroger have the responsibility to protect their customers when the law won’t.
Majority of Kroger Customers Want an End to Open Carry
After more than 300,000 petition signatures and nearly 13,000 phone calls demanding that the nation’s largest supermarket chain stop allowing the open carry of guns in its stores, a new poll conducted by Benenson Strategy Group released today shows 64 percent of Kroger shoppers polled believe people should not be able to openly carry guns in Kroger stores.
Despite this opposition to Kroger’s policy allowing open carry of firearms — and even though a majority of states allow people to openly carry firearms without a background check, training or permit — Kroger so far has sided with a small group of gun extremists and refused to change its policy.
While Kroger has not yet changed its open carry policy, in recent weeks, New Seasons Market, a chain of more than a dozen grocery stores located in Oregon and Washington, and Panera Bread recently joined other major brands, including Target, Starbucks, Chipotle, Sonic, Jack in the Box, and Chili’s, in asking guests to leave their firearms at home.
Kroger claims to be a ‘Family of Stores,’ so where are their family values?
We love this photo from Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen.
He writes, “I stand with my constituents in calling for common sense laws to reduce gun violence. #NotOneMore.”
Thank you Congressman!
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This is ridiculous
A grocery store is one of the last places we would expect to see someone openly carrying a loaded weapon. But Kroger, the largest grocery chain in the country, has policies that allow customers to openly carry guns in its stores – where families shop every day.
Gun extremists have been demonstrating at Kroger stores, and there have been more than a dozen shootings and threats across the country.
That’s why we’re calling on Kroger to keep families safe by prohibiting the open carry of guns in its stores. >> Take action <<
Moms Across America Call on Kroger to Protect Our Children
“If Kroger doesn’t know it already, they will know it very soon: We are in this for the long run, and in the long run we will win.” - Shannon Watts
So Kroger grocery stores allow people to carry loaded guns–but shirtless shoppers, outside food and skateboards aren’t allowed?
We can create a future free from gun violence, but first we have to elect leaders who will vote on the side of gun safety. Find the Gun Sense Candidates in your area here.
More than 300,000 supporters have asked Kroger leadership to end the open carry of guns in their stores.
Here are three of them.
Saturday is the first day of National Gun Violence Survivors Week – when we ask everyone to shine a spotlight on the stories of Americans who have had loved ones taken by gun violence, who have been wounded or threatened with a gun, or witnessed a shooting.
We’ll be sharing the stories of survivors and statistics that highlight the impact of gun violence.