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VermontArmyBrat t1_izpy7sc wrote

Reply to comment by tacochef44 in Shaws or Price Chopper or Hannaford by HappyAstronomer

I stopped shopping at Hannaford when they elected to be the only grocer in VT that is fine screwing dairy farmers and refuses to sign on to the milk with dignity program.

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mycophdstudent t1_izpyoc3 wrote

They sell the same milk as any other store though.

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VermontArmyBrat t1_izq01h5 wrote

Store brand. Not Hood, Monument Farms, etc. https://www.wmtw.com/article/milk-with-dignity-campaign-for-migrant-farm-workers-targets-hannaford/40758660

Edit - So some are confused by this. I’m referring specifically to the in house private label brand. Not the brands you can buy anywhere, to include hannaford.

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ReasonableLiving5958 t1_izq6kga wrote

This is a lie. I literally deliver produce to around 30 different Hannaford stores between New York and Vermont and there are always different types of milk trucks there, including Hood and Monument Farms (the ones you mentioned specifically) unloading their product.

And I've personally bought Monument Farms from there as long as I can remember and well before I delivered there.

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VermontArmyBrat t1_izq8ry9 wrote

Ok I didn’t think this would be complicated. Hood owns Booth Brothers. Hood produces Hannaford private label milk. Yes hannaford sells the same brands as nearly every other store in vermont. Those referenced above plus a number of smaller, mostly organic brands.

I don’t know who bottles the private label brand for shaws and price chopper. It could be Hood, I’m sure a quick Google search could confirm.

So not sure what lie you think is being perpetrated here but those are facts.

Now on to the milk with dignity program. It was first agreed to by Ben And Jerry’s and subsequently all the Vermont grocery stores, except for hannaford.

So now, what is that program you wonder? In short it says “The Program enlists the resources of participating food industry leaders, who commit to source their milk in compliance with the fundamental human rights of dairy workers, to improve farm labor conditions and help offset farmer’s costs of compliance by providing farmers premium prices for milk.”

Meaning that price chopper and shaws require the milk being sold under their brand is sourced from farms meeting those basic standards. Hannaford does not.

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ReasonableLiving5958 t1_izq9a8v wrote

You literally said they sold nothing but store brand milk in your post. Which you were wrong about and now you're moving goalposts from "they only sell store brands" to "they sell all brands but they do it differently than the others!"

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VermontZerg t1_izrxpwd wrote

They sell a wide variety of milk, don't be spreading misinformation VermontArmyBrat

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mycophdstudent t1_izus43e wrote

Good to know. I'd happily pay more for milk knowing that my money goes to paying dignified farmer wages and local family farmers not Big Dairy Inc. I'll avoid the Hannaford brand. Perhaps they wont sign on because they source their milk from far away across multiple suppliers not New England?

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