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Sustainable Seafood Rankings: 4 Supermarket Chains Pass Greenpeace’s Review

By Ben Harder

Posted: December 9, 2008

The environmental advocacy group Greenpeace ranked the nation's 20 leading supermarket chains in June after assessing how well each adhered to ocean-friendly policies in its marketing of seafood. All 20 failed Greenpeace's review. Now, in a new review that takes into account small but significant changes in some chains' policies, Greenpeace has a little good news to report: Four chains passed the test, indicating that they generally sell ocean-friendly seafood. Those four are:

1. Whole Foods Market
2. Ahold USA (which owns Stop & Shop and Giant)
3. Target
4. Harris Teeter

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