JUNE 2006 JOINT NEWS RELEASE: Morality in Media and American Decency Association call for magazine coverup at supermarket checkout lanes
Letter and petition for your local store manager
Make a copy of this letter and petition for your local store manager if magazines with sexually explicit headlines are openly displayed at checkouts.
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Letter to Supermarket CEOs: October 2000
"Supermarkets can't force Cosmo to join the world of decent, morally uplifiting magazines. But they can refuse to allow their checkouts to be used for the open display of "smut" ... Common decency requires nothing less," said Bob Peters in another letter to the chief executives of supermarkets across the U.S.
Letter to Supermarket CEOs: March 2000
"Common sense should inform us that magazine obsession with sex can have negative effects on vulnerable teens and preteens," writes MIM President Robert W. Peters in the seventh letter to more than 300 supermarket CEOs.
Letter to Supermarket CEOs: January 2000
"While we commend Kroger for putting Cosmo behind blinder racks, we do not understand why its new display policy is apparently limited only to Cosmo," writes MIM President Robert W. Peters in a further letter to supermarket CEOs, asking that stores "adopt a policy to put all magazines with lurid, sexually provocative covers behind blinder racks, if you display them at your checkout counters."
Kroger Decides to put 'Cosmo' Behind Blinder Racks
7 January 2000 -- The Kroger Company, the largest supermarket chain in the country with 2,200 stores in 31 states, has informed MIM that it will be putting Cosmopolitan magazine behind blinder racks.
Letter to Supermarket CEOs: November 1999
MIM President Robert W. Peters has written another letter to the chief executives of supermarket chains, asking them to remove or cover sexually lurid magazine headlines at checkout counters.
Americans think sexually explicit headlines at supermarket checkouts are 'inappropriate'
Seventy-three percent of Americans think lurid cover headlines at the checkout counter are 'inappropriate,' and 60 percent say supermarkets should move them away from checkstands or cover them up. Support for this position is even greater among women and among persons with families. See the national poll results that generated these numbers.
MIM announces campaign against prurient magazine covers at supermarket checkout counters
Is it safe to go to the supermarket anymore? With headlines like 'Push His Pleasure Buttons,' and 'Orgasms Guaranteed,' magazines like Cosmopolitan and Glamour put sex in front of your kids at checkout counters.
Status report - the magazine covers campaign
With responses from corporate managment, links to supermarket consumer comment Web pages, and links to published stories on the Campaign
Field Reports of Magazine Placements
These are summaries from members of Morality in Media about objectionable magazine covers displayed at local supermarket checkout counters.