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singalong37 t1_iz4nra3 wrote

Disappointing that price is the main criterion. Quality too but what's their measure of quality? People who'd rather not buy stuff shipped across the continent but instead get food produced in the northeastern states, or who want food that isn't full of herbicides and pesticides and growth hormones, what is this "consumer nonprofit" doing for them? When we had Bread & Circus in Massachusetts there was some effort sell sustainably produced food from local sources but WF doesn't care about that nor do any other of these commercial chains. It's all about price, convenience, "quality"...

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1diligentmfer t1_iz4s4w3 wrote

Lol, people that shop at Bread & Circus aren't going there to feed their family of 5.

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singalong37 t1_iz56k4e wrote

I just think when some consumer group evaluates supermarkets the criteria should be broader than just price. If the conversation is just price then the chains can avoid the whole question of where the food comes from, how sustainably produced, basically the whole food production system. The consumer group is colluding with the supermarket chains to limit the conversation to price and “quality,” whatever that is supposed to mean, and keep ppl ignorant of the source issues.

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Ill-Telephone-7926 t1_iz92j8t wrote

Go write to Consumer’s Checkbook about their criteria if you’d like to see it changed. The report is at https://www.checkbook.org/boston-area/supermarkets/ (paywall)

In regards to global warming specifically, my understanding is that what one chooses to eat is much more important than where it came from. That is, locally sourced beef emissions >>> imported produce emissions. Here’s an explainer: https://youtu.be/F1Hq8eVOMHs?t=226. I mention this only to highlight that this aspect of sustainability is complicated and occasionally counterintuitive.

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bombalicious t1_iz5b0iu wrote

At least with that you know the terms….shaws and Stop and Shop procure their stuff the same way Market Basket does. When it’s locally produced(produce, bread etc.) market basket marks it that way. Don’t think Bread and Circus has the only line on locally Produced items, they just specialized in it.

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