Safeway STRIKE solidarity action: shop and Awe

Solidarity action for grocery workers!

This is an action you can do on your own or in groups (more fun). It is easy, legal (basically) and will have a significant effect if enough people do it.

Go into your local Safeway/Albertsons/Ralphs. If you have to cross a picket, explain (quietly) that you are not shopping, but are going to make a statement in support of the strikers inside the store.

Get a shopping cart, and wander through the aisles, and fill it up with random groceries grab one of everything and toss it in a big pile in the cart. Stuff that spoils soon is better.

Walk out of the store. While it is easy to take stuff off of shelves, reshelving is a real pain in the ass. The SCABS working Safeway are being paid to do someone elses job from them. Messing with them like this makes them less able to do the job of the workers they are filling in for and will co$t the store manager greatly as a well packed basket could take on the order of 30 minutes to reshelve.

Go with friends if you want, and you might enhance the action in the following way:

Go up to the checkout, and have them scan a couple of hundred bucks of groceries in (and do this in multiple checkout lines) and then ask, "Waaaaiiit just a secoond... Arent Safeway workers on strike. You are all a bunch of SCABS arent you? And then walk out. Warning: DO NOT CALL THE PEOPLE IN THE STORE SCABS UNLESS YOU ARE SURE THEY ARE. If the workers in the store arent on strike, then make a comment about remembering that there is a boycott of safeway, and walk out.

This action can be done where there are NO SCABS as well, such as in N. Cal, in a solidarity with the S. Cal strikers.