Waitrose Supermarkets
Waitrose-Shell partnership angers Greenpeace
John Lewis Slipping Off its Ethical Trading Platform
By John Donovan
I feared that the John Lewis UK department store chain, which also owns Waitrose Supermarkets, was in danger of slipping off it ethical trading platform when it announced plans to get into bed with the scandal-ridden oil giant, Shell.
It is worth remembering that Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. It has plundered and polluted in Nigeria for several decades. Shell has also defrauded its own shareholders. Its ethical track record is the worst of any company in existence.