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Good Earth Natural Foods
A large self-service grocery store selling organic groceries, dairy products and household goods.
Address:
1966 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. map
Fairfax, CA 94930
415-454-0123
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Dear Customers of Good Earth,
As a former employee of Good Earth (I left on my own volition), I would like to inform you of the real Good Earth, the one you just can't seem to see.
Although Good Earth is passionate about the environment, they do not seem to realize that the treatment of people equally has to be humane.
Not only has Good Earth over the past few years hired illegal immigrants with the intentions of paying them lower than "white man" wages but they have routinely fired each round of them to hire more at a new low first hire cost. How many old faces do you see when you walk through Good Earth? How about that friendly Mexican dude, is his still there? How much are they paying him? Would he go to the police if they treated him with prejudice or just flat out wrongfully let him go. Would Fairfax even notice?
Although many of the "Fairfaxians" are health conscious, environmentally conscious and extremely well educated individuals, Good Earth has been continuing to blow my mind as far as human relations within the store.
Good Earth refused to close the store when a loyal employee of around 3-4 years of working with good earth, suddenly died of an aneurism. They refused to close the store for one day so people could mourn. They have an extreme turn over rate, resulting in food safety violations due to new under-trained employee's. The owners make a huge amount of money and give 10% of the profits to the employee's, which is sweet but you have to have been working at the store for a year and only their buddies stay that long.
Most employees, if you take the time to ask them yourselves, will have a very dim look on the store, a place they only work at because there is simply no other alternative.
Good earth keeps their cost of employees low because they keep firing them and hiring new ones. Its pretty sad and it is an untold story because most of the victims are illegal immigrants the store willingly hires, who are afraid to fight bac
Jane's keywords: Good Earth, Al Baylacq, fairfax
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Walks its Talk
This is the best local whole food store around--the owners keep up on studies and information about organic products, GMOs, herbs and everything else you need to know. The spelt/kamut bakery items are unique and delicious--a real favorite.
Joanne's keywords: whole food information organic GMO herbs spelt kamut bakery, natural food store
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Good Earth Natural Foods in Fairfax
The Good Earth was the first natural foods store in Marin! They were first in offering locally grown organic produce. They were first in offering bulk herbs and dry foods to reduce packaging. As soon as thry were available, the Good Earth started using the compostable utensils and containers for all take-out as well as recycled content napkins, etc. Since they moved to a larger store, they now have a wide selction of organic and vegan prepared foods available, too! It's worth the trip to Fairfax in Marin County to check it out! Plan to enjoy the outdoor eating area complete with a huge bulletin board of local events and services offered for your enrichemant.
Marilena's keywords: organic, foods,
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