WELSH language campaigners this weekend targeted supermarkets across Gwynedd. Cymuned members, who are fighting to protect the Welsh language and communities, chained shopping trolleys together outside branches of Somer-field and Kwik Save. They also picketed the Pwllheli branch of the supermarket chain. The protest followed an incident at the company's Bala store earlier this year when a manager ordered a member of staff to stop speaking Welsh, describing it as "that silly language". Richard Evans, chairman of Cymuned's executive committee, said: "This company has not responded to calls to develop a national policy and the Pwllheli branch has a shamefully disrespectful attitude towards our language. "We are determined to see Cymraeg being prioritised in the Fro Gymraeg. "And we are determined to see that employees who deal with the public in the Fro Gymraeg have the necessary skills to do so bilingually." Cymuned is calling on chain stores to adopt a moral code of conduct. Aran Jones, Cymuned's chief executive, said a long-term campaign against such stores was planned. "We will be taking action against any chainstore which does not sign up to the moral code," he said.. A management spokesman at the Pwllheli store said the protest made little impact. "Nobody was really inconvenienced and 90% of our staff are Welsh-speaking anyway." | 
