HRC’s annual Corporate Equality Index and Buyer’s Guide can both be found on their website, www.hrc.org. We are going to be bringing you some of the more interesting results in the following days and weeks. Corporate scores are based on workplace equality for LGBT folks not on any other perception. Corporate misdeeds, when big enough of an anti-GLBT impact, can dock a score by 25 points on the 0-100 scale.
Feel free to shop at King Soopers/City Market (parent company Kroger got an 85), Safeway (who also got an 85), or Whole Foods (who got a 75), all in the “green” zone of HRC’s green-yellow-red indicators. By the way, WalMart (which owns Sams Club) got a 60 (yellow zone) and Costco got a 90 (green). Most big food retailers are rated, so, if you are reading from outside of Colorado, take a look at their website and find your grocer.
Shoutocracy fans, this is 20-frickin-12! Are there really companies out there that can’t score a single point on the HRC scale? YES! And we’ll bring the good and the bad to you in digestable snippets. We’ve got to do more business with those that support our full equality and less business with those that don’t. Our business guide is full of (mainly Denver Metro) gay friendly businesses that we should all be supporting, and for our part here at Shoutocracy, in the next couple of weeks, we’ll be adding more from Colorado Springs and elsewhere, so you know where to shop locally.
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