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Major supermarket chains and related food companies have been active political donors this cycle, with companies such as Albertsons and Kroger increasing PAC giving — Albertsons’ PAC gave about $291,5...
Corporate “donations” to Donald Trump’s campaigns or inaugural committee are often individual, PAC, or affiliate contributions rather than direct corporate gifts; reporting shows major national brands...
Public records and reporting show grocery and food‑industry political money comes mostly from PACs, executives and employees — not corporate treasuries — and OpenSecrets groups labeled “Food Stores” l...
Major grocery chains do not, as corporate entities, directly give money to federal candidates; donations come from corporate PACs, executives and employees instead . OpenSecrets shows Food Stores PACs...
Available sources show Safeway as a corporate entity does not make direct contributions to candidates; donations tied to “Safeway” appear as PAC or individual employee/affiliate contributions, often r...
’s recent political giving is a mix of direct candidate contributions via its corporate PAC, trade association and lobbying payments, and occasional pauses or shifts in strategy amid political controv...
Available sources show that supermarket companies do not legally donate directly to federal candidates; instead, donations come from corporate PACs, executives, employees or inaugural and super‑PAC fu...
OpenSecrets’ “Food Stores” category shows the industry gave about $5.4 million in the 2016 cycle; later-cycle totals and company-level breakdowns are available in OpenSecrets and Reuters’ reporting sh...
did make political contributions in the 2023–2024 cycle through its corporate PAC and individual donors, and those donations leaned toward Republican recipients in aggregate reporting that grouped Alb...
has both top-down interest from state lawmakers in and a patchwork of and local examples — from ’s policymaker advocacy to reuse projects or plans cited in , cities (, , , ), , and others — but the av...
Safeway’s corporate entity does not itself give to federal candidates; reporting shows political spending linked to Safeway is routed through its employee/industry PACs and affiliated PAC records — fo...
’s most consequential investments are a mix of outsized exits (), hugely profitable small bets (, ), and at least one very large on‑air cheque (); his public disclosures and reporting identify Plated ...
Major s and trade groups skewed toward candidates across the 2020–2024 cycles, though notable exceptions and corporate splits complicate a simple red/blue tally — and ’ combined giving favored Republi...
Patterns in store location, customer demographics and create reasonably consistent “: chains like , and trend toward liberal consumers, while regional chains such as , and register stronger conservati...
corporate political action committee reported roughly $186,000 in contributions to federal candidates during the 2023–2024 election cycle, according to campaign-finance compilations at . Public report...
Reporting from 2016–2024 does not identify a clear, well‑documented wave of supermarket chains publicly pledging institutional political neutrality or formally halting in response to controversies; in...
Corporate PAC disclosures in the public record show a wide gap between retailers: ’s employer-connected PAC activity is by far the largest documented in the sourced material, ’s PAC activity is mid-si...
A sampling of reporting and campaign-finance trackers shows that several prominent retail and food‑service executives and company PACs have given to Democratic candidates in recent cycles: grocery‑cha...
There is no clear, directly reported evidence that Fred Meyer altered store policies or marketing specifically in response to political controversies tied to Donald Trump; contemporary reporting inste...
Kroger’s political giving is routed through a mix of its corporate reports, its employee-funded PAC and trade associations, and shows different patterns at federal versus state and local levels; feder...