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.