WisPolitics.com: Pro-Life Wisconsin: Roundy's/Copps: NARAL donation will not happen again: "February 1, 2011
Merely six days has passed since we posted the list of businesses sponsoring NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsins Roe v. Wade celebration, and five days has passed since we asked pro-lifers to contact Roundys/Copps regarding their sponsorship. Roundys is the corporate parent of Copps and is based in Milwaukee. We specifically targeted Roundys from NARALs list because it is a Wisconsin company, and a boycott of Roundys 155 stores would have the greatest impact.
We received official confirmation of Roundys official position regarding pro-life/pro-abortion donations:
Copps and Roundys Supermarkets have never made the decision to support either pro-choice or pro-life organizations, events or campaigns. We have left those decisions of support up to our individual customers and employees. "
But we had to press further what exactly transpired for Copps to be listed as a NARAL sponsor? What steps are being taken to ensure it didnt happen again?
What we found out: Without authorization (since it is against corporate policy), a Copps store manager donated a $25 gift card to NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin for their event. Roundys acknowledged the donation should not have occurred. The employee has been reprimanded and all store managers been informed of Roundys official position to ensure that such a donation will not happen again.
This admission from Roundys is a result of a deluge of pro-lifers calling and emailing their offices. The Roundys spokesperson told us they have been responding to pro-lifers for hours. THANK YOU! This incident is further proof that pro-life boycotts work. Not every company responds in five or six days, or even a couple months like Kohls did, but the combined efforts of pro-lifers certainly are at work here.
When Copps/Roundys admitted the donation was a single $25 gift card, we realized (yet again) how pathetic NARAL is. Their listing of corporate sponsors may look impressive, but $25 here and there certainly wont prop up the abortion industry for long. Especially when pro-lifers make it known they will not shop somewhere that bankrolls abortion.
I bet a new policy where Store mgrs. will have to get written authorization from headquarters for anything over .05 in the future. I wonder if the mgr even knew who NARAL even was?
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