Survey: How Green is your Supermarket?
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 07.23.07
We have watched from afar the huge changes in the UK's Waitrose and Sainsbury; here in Canada Loblaws talks a good line but other than a few greenish products does not seem to be doing much. In our weekly Loblaws Greenwashing Watch, in the middle of July, we looked for local and found blueberries from New Zealand, green onions from Mexico and from Canada: lettuce. That's it. Where you live, are they doing any better?
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In the Mid-Atlantic region, especially at the local Jenkintown store, even Whole Foods doesn't "walk the walk."
I checked off farmer's markets, since of the 2 primary places I shop, the second is a farmer's market and the first has far more in common with a farmer's market than with whole foods, even though it's a store.