[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 24317]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



         SAFEWAY SHOULD RECOGNIZE ITS CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

  (Mr. LANTOS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANTOS. Madam Speaker, I rise on behalf of the large group of 
senior, frail, and low-income citizens in my congressional district in 
the city of Pacifica. They have been shopping at Safeway for decades, 
but Safeway--in a display of corporate arrogance and irresponsibility--
suddenly closed that store.
  These folks have no automobiles. They are too frail and too old to 
walk two miles to another store. Safeway should have found a way to 
keep open this facility. But in an irresponsible act of corporate 
recklessness, it closed the store, and the seniors are left high and 
dry, trying to fend for themselves.
  I call on Safeway--a multi-billion-dollar corporation--to change its 
course and recognize its corporate responsibility. It has the duty to 
serve the people who have kept it profitable for decades. It can't just 
walk out on them.

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