Corporate Indifference

The indifference of the executives of Loblaws, President’s Choice Foods, and Westfair Grocers has been no less than truly appalling. These institutions have Mission Statements and a Code of Ethics of grand scope blathering on about their generous contributions and the value of being good corporate citizens. Now you know, dear consumer, just precisely how much they could give a rat’s fesaris about this West End, Vancouver community. They continue to trade with Maclellan to this day.

I, for one, will never see another President’s Choice or Weston Foods product in my home ever again. The guilt of apathy has stained these executives as surely as did the blood on the boots of Ross Maclellan that grisly Monday in May.

This information about the vicious assault has been available to me for several weeks now but I felt it was necessary to be safely ensconced in a new pad, and appropriately equipped before I released it. The Vancouver police, though woefully understaffed with a contingent of one to look into gang and gang-member crimes, and the RCMP are both on alert now and we are all hopeful that you, dear reader, will make the right choice in where you shop appreciating the considerable risk taken by quite a number of people to get these details to you.

THE STAFF DILEMMA
Not all members of the current staff roster at Super Valu on Davie Street were in the know about these beatings. In my efforts to contact the Westfair Group I intended to raise this matter and in a previous issue I have appealed to Galen Weston to guarantee your jobs within his industry until a new franchisee can be found for your outlet. Meanwhile, however, in light of this report might I suggest it may behoove you to abandon the store. New management can be arranged sooner if everyone bails now.

RESPONSE OF COMMUNITY PILLARS
The West Ender newspaper has apparently joined the Davie Street Business Improvement Association in the business of sticking their heads deep in the sand on this boycott.

Xtra Magazine, that acutely politically aware newspaper for the happy.people has also managed to bury its editorial head on this issue. Is it possible the fabulous ones are distracted with upcoming Mr Leatherman contests? Heaven forbid the prospect of ruffling their feathered boas by challenging their community-minded priorities. But would it not be permissable perhaps to remind them that the west end is a community of more than just sexual issues?