1/ @Publix: Radicals in the heartland?…

Recent revelations in @WSJ cast new light on dangerous, anti-democratic ideology behind friendly facade of “Florida’s hometown grocer” https://ciw-online.org/blog/2021/02/publix-radicals-in-the-heartland/

2/ The rally leading to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 was paid for, in large part, by a member of the family that founded, and largely still controls, @Publix. Yes, Publix.

3/ Learning that @Publix supported the politicians whose angry rants about socialism helped fuel the insurrectionists that day only underscored the irony: Publix, the hometown company with the sterling corporate reputation…

4/ ...now has its name connected to the most violent, most dangerous attack on our democracy in living memory, while the CIW and the @FairFoodProgram have forged what has universally come to be known as the single most effective model in the world of social responsibility...

5/ And that might just be the real reason — not the multitude of arguments Publix put forward to the press over the years — why @Publix has resisted for so long, and with such ardor, doing what fourteen other retail food giants did so long ago: join @FairFoodProgram.