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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...
Government Accountability Office analysis and subsequent reporting identify major U.S. employers — notably Walmart and McDonald’s — as having the largest *counts* of workers who receive SNAP (food‑sta...
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...
Isolated incidents occurred where people were injected with saline or diluent instead of a COVID-19 vaccine, typically because of preparation or handling errors at specific clinics or pharmacies. Ther...
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...
Albertsons Companies’ corporate political giving in the 2023–2024 cycle was routed through its PAC, which raised roughly $182,568 and gave about $248,000 to federal candidates in that cycle, with publ...
Kroger has at the federal level, including reported donations tied to Donald Trump's campaign totaling , but the company itself publicly framed its giving as coming primarily from individual employees...
Kroger does not have a single “political party” label — its political spending is channeled through a corporate PAC and trade associations and is reported publicly: Kroger’s 2024 political-spending re...
Target’s corporate check to President Trump’s 2025 inaugural committee was unusually large and visible — $1 million — matching a $1 million contribution from Amazon and dwarfing Walmart’s $150,000 con...
Kroger’s corporate political activity shows a pattern of ; corporate PAC and company-level contributions have flowed to both major parties across recent cycles, with small swings toward one side in pa...
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 reporting does not show a clear, direct endorsement or organizational support from the retail chain Fred Meyer for Donald Trump; most items in the provided results concern Fred Meyer as a su...
Walmart’s benefits package includes a broad suite of programs—medical and pharmacy coverage, retirement options, paid leave categories, mental-health and gender-affirming care coverage, career-develop...
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...
Kroger’s net profit margin in recent reporting sits in the low single digits—data aggregators report net margins around 1.7–1.9% and operating margins around ~2.2% as of mid‑2025, while Kroger’s own f...
Walmart’s 2025–2026 benefits changes position the company closer to peers on some fronts while diverging on others: recent moves include expanded associate discounts and a revamped medical plan with $...
Kroger Co is consistently reported in the supplied analyses as having directed to Donald Trump (identified as a recipient in the data), but the underlying records supplied here are inconsistent about ...
There is clear evidence TPUSA solicits sponsors for its events and lists sponsorship opportunities on its site, and recent press releases show corporate sponsors for TPUSA galas (TPUSA’s sponsorship p...
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...
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...