Health & Fitness
Open Letter to Wally's Marketplace - It's Time to Change
It's time to change Wally's - sign and share the petition - it's a win-win for everyone.
To My Nearest Wally's,
It's time to change.
For more than 30 years, The American Red Cross Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program has helped pregnant women, new mothers, low income single fathers and young children eat well, stay healthy, and be active.
To qualify, a single mother's or father's annual income must be fall below $21,257 (that's $408 a week before taxes) - and - (s)he must be;
- Pregnant, or
- Breastfeeding up to one year postpartum, or
- Non-breastfeeding up to six months postpartum, or
- Have a child or foster under five years old
It's time to change.
As a vendor, Wally's is entrusted by WIC to be a supplier of nutritional foods - not a distributor of expired, rotten and molded foods to the community's struggling parents.
According to the program's website, WIC is funded in two ways, mostly by an appropriation from Congress to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and in part, by private industry. The program generates revenue through competitive bidding on some of the foods the program provides. This is inclusive of a rebate. In California, 25% of all women on WIC are funded by private industry through this process.
As you can see - it's rotten for everyone when rotten food is purchased with WIC's dollars.
WIC dollars aside... so how's business at Wally's? Is it a little slow at times - or most of the time?
Well it shouldn't be - it's not the economy - according to most online reviews - it's the high cost of consistently rotten and expired foods that you're selling to neighbors, and their children.
In less than 24 hours the Change.org online petition has posted over a dozen more negative online reviews about Wally's Marketplace - with each review being copied and delivering to; Wally's, WIC, San Diego County Food Complaints Dept., IGA, San Diego BBB, as well as Google - of course.
It's time to change, and we need Wally's help.
That's why I started this petition on Change.org - not to put Wally's out of business - but to show Wally's the power of online reviews, both positive - and - negative.
Don't get upset with me Wally's - here's what you can do in response;
- Instruct/Order staff and vendors to remove items that are;
- Expired
- Rotten
- Molded
- Hold a Grand Re-Opening with the local;
- Chamber of Commerce
- Press/Media
- WIC
- Invite/Beg customers to rate their shopping experiences on;
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi - with special thanks to SunSand&Surf and Kay Kardian-Porter for the reference - in her article "Grocery Prices at Wally's in Imperial Beach".
Sign the Petition on Change.org
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PETITION UPDATE: as of 06/05/13
- 31 Signatures
- Reporter goes Undercover as Shopper at Wally's for 10News at 11pm
- 10News Video: Dark Secret Exposed
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