The Shufersal supermarket chain is being sued over the company’s refusal to deliver groceries to Arab towns.
Two citizens of Arab towns in northern Israel are asking a Haifa court to award them NIS 450 million over Shufersal (also called Supersol) declining to deliver products to their homes as a matter of policy.
“At first I thought naively that the chain only delivers to big cities where they have a store. But I was recently informed that Shufersal delivers to nearly every town in Israel, so long as they are not Arab,” one of the claimants says, according to Haaretz.
A recording of a conversation with a company representative on Channel 2 has her stating that the company does not deliver to Arab towns.
Among the places that are serviced by Shufersal are West Bank settlements.
The company says in response that it does not discriminate based on ethnicity or religion, and says it will study the complaint once it receives it, Haaretz reports.
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