My wife and I do a lot of our shopping at our local Safeway grocery stores.  They’ve been working hard, as do many grocers these days, in trying to provide products that are sustainable and organic.  That said, they recently took a WRONG TURN in the plastic packaging of many of their O Organics product line and it’s up to us to remind them.

Please note the following statement from O Organics, one of Safeway’s premier product lines:

“Why O Organics^® ?

 With O Organics^®, you know that what you feed your family is actually good for them. Because all O Organics^® products are USDA Certified Organic. They are made responsibly, sustainably and safely (my highlighting). They are always non-GMO, and grown without synthetic pesticides.

Dear fellow consumers: feeding your family microplastics is NOT good for them and pumping MORE plastics into our environment is NOT helpful. https://www.safeway.com/shop/lp/o-organics-organic.html is the home of O Organics.  Please write to them and express your disdain for switching from paper containers to PLASTIC containers in many of their dairy products, e.g. Half and Half, Heavy Whipping Cream, etc.  This switch happened just this year (2021)!  They also have countless other products that are being sold in plastic that could be packaged in a more sustainable manner.  We, as consumers, need to fight back or we will truly be even more awash in plastic.

Safeway is trying to do the right thing by going to a product line like O Organics.  We LAUD their efforts to bring us higher quality products.  Unfortunately, they’ve become distracted from their mission and it’s up to us to remind them that we DO care about our environment and the products we consume.  Please go to https://www.safeway.com/shop/lp/o-organics-organic.html and at the bottom of the page, under Quick Links, click on “Contact Us”.  Scroll down to the lower part of the next screen to the header ‘Contact Us’ and the right most of three boxes is a box “Other Ways To Contact Us“.  Click on “Comments and Questions” and explain to them that their sustainable practices are going BACKWARDS instead of forwards in their packaging.  This page also has addresses for Customer Support Center and Media Inquiries.  ANYTHING you can do to help mitigate this senseless INCREASE in plastics will help.   Your planet and your body THANK YOU!!!