Moms demand action are getting desperate.

[loudshirt]

Found this little opinion piece. Looks like Kroger is not going to fold. Too bad there is not one to support in Oklahoma.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannon-watts/the-message-kroger-doesnt_b_6070542.html

For months, Moms have called on Kroger to make a safer and more family-friendly shopping environment by prohibiting the open carry of firearms in its stores, just as brands including Target, Starbucks, and Panera have done.

Instead of meeting with us and reconsidering an irresponsible policy, Kroger's leadership has refused to listen. They have pressured radio stations to reject our ads and relocated their annual investor meeting to avoid interacting with customers. Just imagine how much easier it would have been if they would talk with us.

This week, Kroger executives and investors met in Cincinnati and I was there, along with dozens of Moms Demand Action volunteers from neighboring states, to make it as easy as possible for Kroger leadership to meet with us on an issue that women and mothers care about more than anything: the safety of our families. Rather than agree to a meeting, Kroger bullied radio stations into pulling our ads highlighting the absurdity of their gun policy (you can listen to the ads here and here). And this week, Kroger bussed its investors out of the hotel where they were planning to meet and to an alternate location -- probably to avoid the rally of mothers and customers we had organized to spark a conversation with them.

Evidently Kroger is growing uncomfortable with their gun policy, and frankly, they should be. Kroger is siding with gun extremists, rather than mothers, gun violence survivors, and the majority of Kroger shoppers, who support ending open carry in Kroger stores.

Moms refuse to be silenced. The ads that made Kroger so nervous are nothing more than recordings of Kroger employees reiterating Kroger's policy, which is to prohibit children's toys and household pets in the name of customer safety, but to allow anyone to openly carry loaded firearms, even though no permit, training, or background check is required to do so in most states.

Instead of working with us to make stores safer, Kroger has cited politicians' inaction to regulate open carry to justify their own stubborn refusal to institute a policy that does more than force employees and customers into a position where they must guess whether the armed individual in the frozen food aisle poses a threat to customers.

How are moms shopping with children expected to know the difference between an activist and a threat to our families? In a majority of states, it is completely legal to open carry a loaded gun in public without any training, permitting, or a background check. In some states, there isn't even an age requirement to open carry a loaded firearm.

That's why open carry poses a unique risk to the public. That's why we want Kroger to act, just as so many other major companies have done. And 83% of Kroger shoppers agree - Kroger is well within their rights to stop open carry.

When I founded Moms Demand Action the day after the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, I knew that it would be a long road towards gun safety. Since then, millions of Americans have joined this fight and we will continue to be relentless whenever we feel the safety of our children is threatened.

Kroger's customers deserve to be heard and Moms won't stop until we get the change we need.

 

[turkeyrun]

And how long has Kroger allowed this heinously dangerous activity? How many children and women injured in a Kroger store because of this dangerous policy? Dumb ass byotch.

 

[rawhide]

And 83% of Kroger shoppers agree - Kroger is well within their rights to stop open carry.

...83% of Kroger shoppers agree that a private business should be able set its own policies regarding the carrying of firearms in that business. Wonder how many of those 83% actually support eliminating open carry?

 

[MisterGrubbs]

These women are simply trying to cause problems. I get their cause, but it's wrong, plain and simple. The way they're going about it is absolutely horrible! I'll add, I won't shop at stores that do not allow guns to be carried. I feel safer knowing there are CCW's surrounding me.

My father is a manager at a Kroger store in Georgia, by the way.

Anyone ever see the big news article about the female manager of Kroger basically telling Moms Demand Action that they need to get the hell on? Pretty awesome.

 

[p238shooter]

Please pass on to your Father that there are a few of us in Okla that support legal carry anywhere it is Constitutionally allowed, and we appreciate what Kroger is doing.

I shop at a Kroger in Bloomington, Indiana every couple months or so, nicer grocery store than anything we have in the Tulsa area and usually a little better prices. Great meat selection with a real butcher that will cut anything odd you want for the grill until 5PM. Nice you can pick up liquor or wine there also, but that is a whole other subject. It would be nice to have their chain move into Oklahoma.

Always carry there, semi open .45, no one notices or cares.

 

[Shadowrider]

Even though there aren't any here you can still do this:

https://www.kroger.com/customercomments

Let them know that if a few cranky hipster "moms" take their business elsewhere, that when word gets out that they did the right thing, that business will probably come back threefold by those that appreciate them doing the right thing.

 

[MisterGrubbs]

Please pass on to your Father that there are a few of us in Okla that support legal carry anywhere it is Constitutionally allowed, and we appreciate what Kroger is doing.

I shop at a Kroger in Bloomington, Indiana every couple months or so, nicer grocery store than anything we have in the Tulsa area and usually a little better prices. Great meat selection with a real butcher that will cut anything odd you want for the grill until 5PM. Nice you can pick up liquor or wine there also, but that is a whole other subject. It would be nice to have their chain move into Oklahoma.

Always carry there, semi open .45, no one notices or cares.

Will do. He's actually a meat department manager for a store back home.

 

[Fredkrueger100]

I really wish these idiot women would get a life. It gets real old hearing about these blowhards. I would love to ask one of the women just ho many criminals open carry. My guess would be none.

 

[airpowmech]

My question is when is people going to realize these busy bodies haven't really accomplished anything. All the companies they have targeted, except Krogers has only given them lip service. No one has really changed their policies.

 

[twoguns?]

I really wish these idiot women would get a life. It gets real old hearing about these blowhards. I would love to ask one of the women just ho many criminals open carry. My guess would be none.

Fruedian???