Posted on 03/25/2015 1:53:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
You’ve got to love it when a corporation who’s intimately involved with everyday Americans decides to stand up for their rights.
Not all corporations will, in fact, many large corporations have caved in and told Moms Demand Action they’ll do anything they want so they can keep their gun hating credit cards in their stores.
Well the interesting thing is that’s actually not a good way gain business.
Check out the story below about what Kroger told Moms Demand Action and then notice the interesting results from their refusal to cave.
During a March 25 appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Kroger CFO Michael Schlotman said the retail food chain will not comply with the demands of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, especially as those demands touch on changing store policy to disarm open-carry customers in states where openly carrying a gun in Kroger is legal.
Schlotman made these comments after Squawk Box host Andrew Ross Sorkin said, “In the fall there [were] these liberal groups who had organized to suggest that Kroger was allowing people to ‘open carry’ firearms in their supermarkets. What was that about and where do you guys stand on that?”
Scholtman responded:
That was a group called Moms Demand Action. They were opposed to the fact that our policy is to adhere to the local gun laws. If the local gun laws are to allow open carry, we’ll certainly allow customers to do that based on what the local laws are. We don’t believe it’s up to us to legislate what the local gun control laws should be. It’s up to the local legislators to decide to do that.
So we follow local laws [and] we ask our customers to be respectful to the other people they are shopping with. And we really haven’t had any issues inside of our stores as a result of that.
Moms Demand Action launched their campaign against Kroger on August 18. On that very day, Kroger subsidiary Fred Meyer announced they would not be changing their gun policy and the Cincinnati Enquirer reported that Kroger released a statement days later, stating that they had no intention of changing their policy either; that they “trust [customers] to be responsible in [Kroger] stores.”
After failing to achieve a policy change at Kroger or Fred Meyer, Moms Demand Action targeted North Carolina-based Harris Teeter on November 20. But Breitbart News reported that Harris Teeter quickly made it known that they would not be changing their gun policy either.
They released a statement in response to Moms Demand Action saying: “We have and will continue to adhere to the firearms and concealed handgun laws as outlined by the states in which we do business. We believe this issue is best handled by lawmakers, not retailers.”
Care to guess what happened to Kroger’s sales after all of this happened?
According to Breitbart news they actually shot up 21%.
That’s right, sales almost climbed by a quarter.
And why wouldn’t they. Most Americans are sensible enough to understand that for a corporation to go agains the laws of the land is essentially going against America.
And who wants to shop at places that aren’t for America, right?
Nice! Good for them for standing up for what they believe in! We already shop at Smith’s, which is part of their chain in NM, but if we didn’t, I would now.
Wonder why they went after Harris Teeter right after failing at Kroger. Kroger bought Harris Teeter about a year ago.
Great story!
Yeah, that is good, although I still doubt I’d walk into a grocery store with an AR on my back as a matter of routine. But hey, that’s just me. Concealed carry, sure.
Starbucks did the same.
Until some idiots decided to use it as a forum for gratuitously open-carrying _at_ people, violating the imperative to “trust [customers] to be responsible in stores.”
Thank cooperative stores by shopping there, not by deliberately scaring customers.
Individuals know the difference between discretely carrying (openly or concealed) vs doing so for the primary, if not sole, purpose of drawing attention to the weapon. Responsible carry isn’t a problem; doing it _at_ people is.
I’ve been shopping more at Kroger just because they have the best grocery sales in town.
I’ve been shopping more at Kroger just because they have the best grocery sales in town.
If you are “scared” of the lawful exercise of my rights then perhaps the problem isnt me.
One Kroger store in the whole of Minnesota and it’s 2 hours away.
ROAD TRIP!!!
+1
Lest retailers forget, KMART sales began their slide to store closures and a downward spiral after they caved to Michael Moore’s fringe lunatic liberal gun and ammo sales ban.
Let's see how much they've contributed to Hillary.
I always carry concealed when out in public, and if open carry was legal in Florida, I’d switch to an outside the waistband holster, but slinging a rifle over your shoulder for a trip to the grocery store is just ridiculous. Couldn’t these people make their political statement with a handgun in a holster?
Oh no!! blood in the produce aisle. Every cart crash will end up in a blood bath. What about the Children?
Too bad there aren’t any Krogers around here. They’d get all my business.
Is ‘Moms Demand Action’ a George Soros funded group?
And who wants to shop at places that aren’t for America, right?
Liberals, socialists, leftists, communists, Marxists, progressives...but I repeat myself.
I’d feel safer shopping there than say being a Target............
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