Cause Marketing/ Community Programs

SEATTLE - Community-based independent Metropolitan Market yesterday began offering reusable shopping bags made of 100 percent recycled polypropylene.

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Safeway Inc. here yesterday won the Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) for promoting green business practices and implementing significant environmental initiatives throughout its operations.

COPPELL, Texas -- Minyard Food Stores, Inc. here has joined forces with Boston-based Oldways, a non-profit food issues think tank, and its Latino Nutrition Coalition (LNC) to distribute "Camino Magico," a bilingual guide to healthy shopping, in more than 25 of Minyard's Carnival Supermarkets in north Texas.

CINCINNATI -- The Kroger Co. here and its family of stores are once again supporting The Salvation Army's annual Red Kettle campaign this holiday season. Funds raised through the campaign provide services in more than 5,000 communities across the country.

SEATTLE - Community-based independent Metropolitan Market yesterday began offering reusable shopping bags made of 100 percent recycled polypropylene.

COPPELL, Texas -- Minyard Food Stores, Inc. here has joined forces with Boston-based Oldways, a non-profit food issues think tank, and its Latino Nutrition Coalition (LNC) to distribute "Camino Magico," a bilingual guide to healthy shopping, in more than 25 of Minyard's Carnival Supermarkets in north Texas.

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Safeway Inc. here yesterday won the Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) for promoting green business practices and implementing significant environmental initiatives throughout its operations.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. and OAKLAND, Calif. -- TransFair USA, a third-party, independent certifier of Fair Trade Certified products, said yesterday it has united Wal-Mart, the U.S. government, and a leading coffee company in a three-year, $1.9 million public-private agreement to support Brazilian farmers producing Fair Trade Certified coffee and cooperatives with technical training and infrastructure investment.