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Loblaws: Portrait of a Corporate Hypocrite "If the demonstrators/protesters perform such activities as providing pamphlets to our customers while on Company property or picking up grocery products in our store and depositing them directly into a Food Bank drop-off location without purchasing the product, will be classified as trespassing and the appropriate authorities will be advised and requested to act." Letter to TASC From Debbie Regina, Sr. Manager, Loss Prevention, Loblaws. 6220A Yonge St., 218-7700.
Text of letter issued to TASC from National Grocers Co. Ltd. of 6 Monogram Place, Weston, ON, 246-7899, dated June 16, 1998 "It is our opinion that the laws of this Province consider Stores to be private property, where the public is admitted, upon invitation, for the purpose of transacting business. It is our further opinion that this invitation may be withdrawn at any time. The invitation for you to visit any of our Loblaws, No Frills, Supercentre, freshmart, valu-mart and Y.I.G. locations, is therefore withdrawn effective upon receipt of this letter. Should you henceforth enter any of our identified Stores without first obtaining our permission in writing, we will consider having you arrested and charged and in addition we may seek civil damages."	Loblaws, Canada's massive grocery chain, was declared a corporate hypocrite by members of TASC in the late 1990s when it appeared that the corporation was profiting off of poverty. The corporate food chain refused numerous offers of dialogue on how it could actually end the root causes of hunger (such as Loblaws' own corporate greed, paying its executives multi-million dollar salaries, and supporting right-wing regimes whose social spending cutbacks created further poverty and hunger). Instead, it hired private goons to stalk us and brought out the constabulary on many an occasion to arrest the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Great Punmpkin and numerous others. To this day, all members of TASC are barred from entering the stores of any Loblaws or Loblaws subsidiaries across Canada. Listed below are links to press releases and flyers which were part of this campaign.   Easter Bunny gets hauled away after handing out anti-hunger messages at Loblaws  Top of Page FLYERS, POSTERS, PRESS RELEASES, AND TRIAL REPORTS FROM OUR CAMPAIGN TO TRANSFORM ONE OF CANADA'S LARGEST CORPORATE GIANTS   The First Flyer We Did Documenting Loblaws' hypocrisy, Spring 1997   First Letter to Loblaws CEO Richard Currie, Inviting a Dialogue, October 15, 1997   Second Letter to Loblaws CEO Richard Currie, Inviting a Dialogue, November 19, 1997   Third Letter to Richard Currie, Inviting a Dialogue, May 15, 1998   Loblaws Busts Santa Claus, Two Elves, Xmas, 1997   Santa Says it's Time to Share, Loblaws!    How Many Hungry People Could You Feed with $200 Million? Dec. 1997   Loblaws Busts the Easter Bunny, Spring, 1998   Daily Bread Food Bank Writes to Defend Corporate Hypocrite Loblaws   Second Harvest Writes to Defend Corporate Hypocrite Loblaws   Loblaws Gets Charities To Defend Their Corporate Record: Our Responses to Daily Bread and Second Harvest   Food Drive Sponsor Toronto Star Criticizes TASC for Fighting Root Causes of Hunger   Loblaws Hire Goons To Defend Store From Future Easter Bunny Visits   Loblaws Busts Robin Hood, Honest Shawn, Summer 1998   Hungering for Justice: The Fast to End Hunger and Homelessness, Sept. 1998   Loblaws Helps TASC With Display of Force, September 1998   Loblaws Busts Great Pumkin, Fall 1998   Loblaws Calls out Constabulary: Old Memories Die Hard, Especially Memories of Mutations, July 6, 2001 Top of Page