The Minnesota Independent

supervalu - Latest Stories

Minneapolis corporations top LGBT buying guide

By Andy Birkey | 11.25.09 | 9:05 am

Picture 25Just in time for Black Friday, the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy group, has released a shopping guide that ranks hundreds of businesses on whether their policies support LGBT employees. Many of Minnesota’s top companies —…

War on Christmas comes to Minnesota

By Andy Birkey | 11.19.09 | 10:45 am

The religious right’s annual “War on Christmas” is ramping up early this year, and at least one Minnesota-based company is on its hit list. Targeting retail stores that use the word “holiday” instead of “Christmas,” a trend it says the Nazis began, the American Family Association includes SUPERVALU, Eden Prairie–based owner of Cub Foods, among its targets for using the h-word in its ads.