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Supermarket chain targeted for selling Trump wine in Virginia stores
A large majority of respondents to this week's RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll oppose calls to boycott Wegmans Food Markets Inc. for selling Trump Winery products in some of its stores.
Wegmans is among a number of well-known companies that have faced political pressure for selling Trump brand products. As reported first by the Washington Post last week, members of a Virginia chapter of the National Organization for Women support a boycott of Wegmans unless it stops selling products from the Trump Winery in Charlottesville.
"Certainly if Wegmans is carrying Trump wines, I personally will not shop there," NOW President Terry O'Neill told the Post.
Wegmans also is one of dozens of big-name retailers targeted by the #Grab Your Wallet boycott, a social media campaign launched last fall after the release of Access Hollywood video containing lewd comments about women made by Donald Trump. Other companies on the list include L.L. Bean, Amazon and Macy's.
Not all current boycotts are anti-Trump. One recently was launched against Nordstrom after it stopped selling his daughter Ivanka's fashion line. The president himself has taken aim at Nordstrom and other retailers that have dropped Trump family products. In 2015, when Macy's dropped his clothing line after comments Trump made about immigrants,...