Albertsons, one of America’s largest grocery store chains, does not allow store managers to keep transgender-identifying men out of women’s bathrooms, a conservative watchdog warned Tuesday. 

The policy was revealed in a “Woke Alert” campaign from Consumers’ Research targeting Albertsons over its promotion of gender ideology and DEI. Albertsons owns popular chains like Safeway and Vons and operates over 2,000 stores across the country.

In a document obtained by Consumers’ Research and shared with The Daily Wire, Albertsons writes that “requiring a transgender individual (customer or employee) to use the restroom of her gender at birth” would “be a form of transgender discrimination prohibited by our Company policy.”

Albertsons did not respond to requests for comment on when the policy was implemented or whether it was still in place.

The grocery chain was the top sponsor of a pride festival in Boise, Idaho, in 2024, while Safeway was “proud” to sponsor of San Francisco Pride festival. Albertsons Companies Foundation also recently made a number of large donations to transgender activists groups, including $25,000 to the National Center for Transgender Equality for Education. That organization, which is now known as Advocates for Trans Equality, opposes state laws that protect children from transgender medical procedures. 

The Woke Alert also hit Albertsons for its climate activism and DEI policies. 

“Consumers do not need their grocery stores peddling woke policies with produce, but that is exactly what Albertsons is doing,” Consumers’ Research Executive Director Will Hild told The Daily Wire. “Instead of focusing on providing high quality products and services to its customers at competitive prices, Albertsons has promoted discriminatory practices, gender ideology to kids, and committed to radical net-zero climate goals.”

In a 2024 report, Albertsons included “climate action” and “diversity and inclusion” as two “key ingredients” that the company was focusing on changing. This includes a push to hit net zero carbon emissions by 2040, the creation of a variety of identity-focused support groups, and push to support “diverse suppliers.” 

“We are steadfast in our mission to create growth opportunities for small businesses and diverse suppliers, helping to amplify their product visibility on our shelves so we can offer a wide range of products that support our mission to create customers for life among all communities,” the report said. 

Albertsons defines “diverse supplier” as a company that is “at least 51 percent owned, controlled and operated by women, Black, indigenous and people of color, LGBTQ+, veterans or people with disabilities.”

Associate resource groups hosted by Albertsons include the Pride Alliance, Hispanic Leadership Network, Women’s Inspiration and Inclusion Network, and the Asian Network. 

Safeway, one of Albertsons’ subsidiaries, also has posted that it is committed to “diversity and inclusion and thoughtful people practices is a core element of the company’s philosophy, ensuring our employees reflect the diverse communities we serve,” according to a screenshot from Consumers’ Research. 

Safeway DEI/Consumers’ Research.

That page has now been deleted. 

Hild urged Albertsons to abandon its DEI policies, pointing to the Trump administration’s push to eliminate DEI from the federal government and crackdown on funding for entities that implement or offer identity-based quotas and opportunities. 

“President Trump has made it crystal clear that these discriminatory policies need to end and companies should walk away from these political agendas and focus on their core business,” Hild said. “Consumers’ Research will continue to expose companies that are putting a woke agenda over consumers.”

In an obvious attempt to portray their leftist darling, New York Democratic mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani, as palatable to New York’s Jewish population, despite Mamdani’s openly anti-Israel views, The New York Times ran a puff piece in which of the five people they quoted openly supporting him, two were part of his campaign. Two more were friendly with the anti-Israel groups, such as Jewish Voice for Peace or Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and the fifth favored another erstwhile candidate, Brad Lander, over him.

Of the 8 people this article quoted, 5 spoke positively about Mamdani. Of those, 2 were part of his campaign. Another 2 are from the anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace and JFREJ groups that already support Mamdani. The 5th ranked Lander ahead of him.

I think the New York Times… pic.twitter.com/0t5r8jgMab

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) August 4, 2025

In the piece, titled “Many Jewish Voters Back Mamdani. And Many Agree With Him on Gaza,” the Times admitted, “It is difficult to determine how many Jewish voters supported Mr. Mamdani,” and acknowledged, “Neighborhoods with large numbers of Orthodox Jewish residents voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Cuomo. He also won other heavily Jewish areas like Riverdale in the Bronx. Still, the Times deflected, stating, “But Mr. Mamdani enjoyed a broad victory that suggests at least some backing from many different constituencies.”

To buttress their claim of significant Jewish support for Mamdani, the Times quoted a pro-Mamdani Manhattan bike mechanic who works as a canvasser for Mamdani, another canvasser for Mamdani, Mamdani’s communications director, a woman who attended an event for Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, a leftist group supporting Mamdani, a woman who said even Jews mad at Mamdani for his remarks  — which have included, as the Times noted, his endorsement of the view that Israel is conducting a genocide — would say they “couldn’t stand the Israeli government,”  and a woman rabbi from a leftist Jewish Reform synagogue.

Rabbi Marc Schneier, the founding senior rabbi of the Hampton Synagogue, declared, “Mamdani’s election is the greatest existential threat to a metropolitan Jewish population since the election of the notorious antisemite Karl Lueger in Vienna. Jewish leaders must come together as a united force to prevent a mass Jewish exodus from New York City.”

The Times’ notorious antisemitism has ranged from most recently running a misleading photo of a 20-month old child in Gaza and omitting the fact that he was suffering from a serious disease in order to paint a false picture of starvation (while eliding his three-year-old healthy brother from the photo), to lying by reporting Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza, to lying in the past by stating Palestinian Authority president Abbas favored a non-violent approach to Israel when it had been reported in August 2017 that Abbas insisted he would always pay the families of murderous terrorists who had been jailed by Israel, saying, “I don’t intend to cease payment for families of prisoner martyrs, even if it costs me my seat, I will continue to pay them until my last day.”

In the mid-twentieth century, the Times buried the Holocaust so it didn’t make the front pages, as described in “Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper.” In April 2019, the paper published a cartoon depicting former President Trump as a blind man wearing a skullcap while being led by Netanyahu, who was depicted as a dog on a leash with a Star of David collar.

The Jewish Council for Public Affairs researched 107 editorials on Israel and Jews published in the Times since 2016; David Bernstein, president and CEO of the organization, accused the Times of “a decided institutional bias” against Israel. Roughly a decade ago, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) published a pamphlet titled “Indicting Israel: New York Times Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict,” that delineated the Times’ consistent bias against Israel.