Comments on: FreshDirect Fights Local Critics with New Website

By: Monxo

Monxo — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:00:18 +0000

FreshDirect’s site is full of it. It shows that they have felt the bite of its critics and are on the defensive. It is just pathetic. South Bronx residents have offered to meet with FD’s management numerous times, to no avail. Instead, they use their government subsidies, tax brakes, and exemptions to put up this site packed with lies, instead of facing its critics honorably. It is a cowardly and shameful spectacle indeed. And it shows that a people organized will put these creeps on the run. Boycottfreshdirect [dot] com – southbronxunite [dot] com

Moving to the SouthBronx is SOOOO not happening!!! Ha ha ha.

By: Lily Kesselman

Lily Kesselman — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:30:14 +0000

FreshDirect is misleading taxpayers and with $127 million in taxpayer dollars they can afford to hire companies to do PR for them.

They don’t mention residents will have to suffer an additional 2,000 truck trips PER DAY through their residential neighborhoods. They don’t mention their $8 per hour part time jobs will be EXEMPT from the Fair Living Wage Act. They don’t mention their factory and trucks will be located NEXT TO the waste transfer station. They don’t mention they are building on STATE OWNED PROPERTY. They don’t mention this was never brought to the local community board. They don’t mention that their factory will be built in a neighborhood with one of the highest asthma rates in the country. They don’t mention the LEAST EXPENSIVE option is to stay in Queens and expand. And the don’t mention the thousands they spent lobbying the tens of thousands of dollars they spent lobbying the Mayor, the NYCEDC, NYC City Council and the Department of City Planning. They also don’t mention the 380 TONS of solid waste they produce monthly NOT INCLUDING their delivery boxes. And the 10 electric trucks they intend to buy? Well the company that manufactures them isn’t even built yet. This is a bunch of empty promises to take subsidies to promote private profits.

New York taxpayers should be aware of where their hard-earned dollars are going and maybe look past corporate websites aimed at misleading consumers. There’s nothing “green” about FreshDirect.

By: Mychal Johnson

Mychal Johnson — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:23:53 +0000

If Fresh Directs PR department creates another 10 websites, they still can’t legitamize the need to bring 2000 additional vehicle trips per day to an area overstaturated with traffic and air quality issues. The website doesn’t address why they think it’s ok to build on land that is none to have a native american settlement and burial ground. If they don’t create one additional job they don’t have to give back one cent. Write their response to this.

By: Jen Ramos

Jen Ramos — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:07:37 +0000

Lies. See the website http://www.boycottfreshdirect.com/

Sign the petition. Do not let Cuomo and Bloomberg give away $130 million of our money to a company near bankruptcy that pollutes, wants to take over the South BRonx waterfront and pays workers 8$ an hour.