Thank you for sending Aldi a Valentine’s message.
On Valentine’s Day, we were able to hand deliver over 900 cards from customers to Aldi’s UK head office, calling on the supermarket giant to do more to protect the people who produce its food.
Thanks to your consumer power, this much-loved brand has taken some additional small steps. Aldi has published information about the initial work it has done to understand the risks faced by food producers, and has started to explain how it will tackle human suffering in food supply chains.
Last year, thanks to pressure from customers like you, Aldi published a new human rights policy. But it still hasn’t put it into practice. This Valentine’s day, we’re calling on the supermarket giant to turn its words into action.
Oxfam research found that many farmers and workers who produce the food we buy in UK supermarkets are suffering horrific working conditions. People’s basic needs like food, water and safety are not being met, and are often left trapped in poverty. Aldi, in particular, is not showing how it tackles the critical issues that affect food producers.
This Valentine’s day, tell Aldi you’d love it more if its food producers were better protected. It’s time the supermarket turned its words into action.
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Oxfam has analysed the human rights policies of these leading UK supermarkets and scored them on four carefully selected categories. How does your supermarket score? For our full report please click here.
This scorecard is based on supermarkets' public policies, statements, and commitments.
Reported Human Rights Allegations in the supply chain of companies can be found here: www.business-humanrights.org/barcodes.
Please note, these scores are based on information available publicly up to 9th November 2017. Any relevant changes made by the companies after this date will be considered in the second annual scorecard assessment