Albertsons

Idaho
Food and Staples Retailing

Risk Level:

Rating - Caution
Medium Risk

Summary:

Albertsons has not terminated business relationships due to religious or political beliefs. It does lack viewpoint protections for employees. Albertsons also endorsed the Equality Act. It has not funded ideological organizations hostile to freedom of expression, but it did fund a children's drag show. Albertsons has pledged to vet vendors for their pro-LGBTQ policies, but it does not discriminate against faith-based charities. For these reasons, Albertsons receives a "Medium Risk" rating.

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Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level
Rationale

Albertsons has not publicly terminated business relationships due to religious beliefs or political views. The company received a score of 90 on the Corporate Equality Index from the Human Rights Campaign. Among other requirements, this means Albertsons has pledged to vet vendors based on LGBTQ policies (1).

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level
Rationale

Albertsons encourages the use of its Charitable Community Giving Card Program to fundraise for local churches, schools, and nonprofits (1). Albertsons’ primary method of charitable giving is through food banks and other hunger relief organizations, which do include religious groups (2).

Criteria

Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

Risk Level
Rationale

Albertsons’ nondiscrimination hiring policy does not protect its employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Albertsons signed an open letter in support of the Equality Act (1). Albertsons also denounced state legislative efforts to reform their own voting processes, saying that they make it “harder to vote, and that can disproportionately impact women and people of color” (2).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Albertsons donates to a variety of different charitable causes, including $5 million to nonprofits seeking racial justice, none of which are ideologically driven (1)(2)(3). Albertson’s also funded the Boise Pride event, which featured drag shows with children as young as 11 years old included (4).

Criteria

Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level
N/A
Rationale

Albertsons does not currently have an operating PAC for political contributions. Note: Albertsons is the parent company of Safeway, which contributes without ideological bias (1)(2).

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March 28, 2023

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