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?
If you are exercising your rights (gun, speech, association, whatever) because it is reasonable and convenient for your well-being, fine.
If you are exercising your rights AT ME (carrying big awkward long guns in a coffee shop, screaming religious/political rhetoric on a sidewalk at passers-by, encouraging an angry mob to block traffic, whatever) because you are trying to make me think about something to my inconvenience/annoyance/concern instead of merely going about my business while you go about yours, not fine - and the problem isn’t me.
It’s not that I’m “scared”, it’s that you’re injecting yourself & your issue into my headspace and you’re wantonly pissing me off. You know the difference between exercising your rights because it’s appropriate vs exercising your rights because you want to make people deal with something they don’t want to deal with when they’re doing something else. You know there’s a difference between carrying a rifle into a coffeeshop because you’re walking to the woods to hunt, vs carrying a rifle into a coffeeshop because you want all the otherwise apathetic people to LOOK AT YOUR BIG F”IN RIFLE AND RESPECT YOUR RIGHTS which means you’re just being an @$$.
“Is ‘Moms Demand Action’ a George Soros funded group?”
Dig deep enough, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
Who decides? You? Hardly.
The legislature has decided and legislated what 'responsible carry' means.
/johnny
Bloomy
When all of this crap started, I went to the local Kroger (King Soopers) and thanked their manager for their stand against Moms Demanding Attention. She was incredible supportive of us, and a lot of her employees carry as well.
incredible = incredibly
I remember Fred Meyers in Portland. They are throughout the state. At least they stood up for “the law” ... which is a good start ... :-) ...
And gas points, too.
What’s not to like?
ummmm...
dude...
if i am legally allowed to carry a firearm..
and i choose to do so..
who the friggin hell are you to decide if i am doing it “RESPONSIBLY” or not...
troll...
Thankfully it’s not up to you.
The term liberals use is “flouting” your rights....
We already shop at Smith’s
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As Fry’s and Kroger in Arizona.....
Close. They're a Michael Bloomberg astroturf front.
FINALLY. A company I don’t have to boycott. I love Fred Meyers (Krogers). Where else can I go to buy a gun, some ammo, a 30 pack of Natural Light, fence posts, an apple tree, baby food, house paint, a Bulova watch, and whitey tighties all in one trip???
WELL SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!
Two thumbs up
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