Re: THIS MAY BE OF INTEREST!

[Sherry Jones <swjones@lanl.gov>]

Ruth,

Here in Los Alamos we have a store called Cotton Tails that also has a
branch in Santa Fe.  Here in Los Alamos they do not have posted anti-nuke
signs etc., but in Santa Fe they do.  I questioned why they did not have
them posted in Los Alamos and the owner said that she would loose business.
I told her that either she believed in something or she didn't and that she
lost my business just because I felt her to be two faced.

It would not surprise me in the least if the Albuquerque Wild Oats did not
have a clue that they were on the list, and that it was completely done by
the Santa Fe Wild Oats market because of the strong anti-WIPP etc.,
feelings coming from many Santa Fe people.

Sherry


>Dear RADSAFERs,
>
>We have received a list from Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive
>Dumping (CARD) with the heading
>
>		ANOTHER BUSINESS AGAINST W.I.P.P.
>
>and Wild Oats Market, 6300 San Mateo NE in Albuquerque (where I had been
>shopping) is on this list. The list does say that stores listed display a
>pink sign with the above legend, and I have never seen such a sign at that
>particular Wild Oats. However, the listing indicates clearly to me that Wild
>Oats Market doesn't want my business or, at least, if they knew that I both
>supported opening the WIPP and had worked on it, they wouldn't want my
>business.  There is a sort of "hate" aura about this.
>
>I called Wild Oats  and yesterday got a return call from Wild Oats in Santa
>Fe.  The gist of the call was that several years ago they had indeed
>supported another anti-WIPP group, CCNS, and that such support was given
>after polling their employees and getting a lot of phone calls and mail from
>customers. I was promised a copy of a letter from Wild Oats legal department
>stating their position, but the individual I spoke with did not paraphrase
>or state that position for me.  I was asked what I wanted Wild Oats to do
>and I responded that they should get their name off the list.  I also said I
>would not shop there any longer as long as they had not repudiated the
>position represented by the listing, and I would inform as many colleagues
>as I could of their position.  So that's why this RADSAFE posting.  I also
>suggested that for a food market to take a clearly political stance would
>alienate some people and could possibly result in loss of customers.  There
>was a lot more to the conversation, but this is the important part.
>
>I have not heard from Wild Oats since the call yesterday or received a copy
>of the legal letter.  By contrast Keller Farm Stores (a local market)
>responded immediately and faxed us a copy of their letter asking to be
>removed from the list.  Note that I am not asking for support for the WIPP,
>but asking only that Wild Oats not advertise its opposition.
>
>Wild Oats (Alfalfa Markets in some places) has stores in many states. They
>have a web page listing their stores; the URL is http://www.wildoats.com.
>
>cc: Sandy Valencourt, Wild Oats Market
>
>Clearly only my own personal opinion.
>
>Ruth F. Weiner
>Sandia National Laboratories
>MS 0718, POB 5800
>Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
>505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
>rfweine@sandia.gov
>
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Sherry W. Jones, NMSM
Los Alamos National Laboratory
P. O. Box 1663, MS E524
Los Alamos, NM 87545
Phone (505) 665-2712
Fax: (505) 665-8997
E-Mail: swjones@lanl.gov
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