Who's Afraid Of Cheaper Groceries?
Labor unions and politicians, that's who -- the same people who are afraid of school choice. Nick Gillespie for reason.tv:
My favorite comment was that of the woman who said that Walmart will cause crime -- merely by opening, because kids will steal and be caught and jailed. Love her logic. No, they won't be stealing because they're ill-raised, but because Walmart's mere existence, with all that shopliftable stuff on the shelves, will just be too tempting.
On a need for cheaper groceries in New York note, a friend let me stay in his downtown loft last year when I was in New York for an event with a reading of I See Rude People. I went to the Gristedes near my friend's place, and found iceberg lettuce priced like it was iceberg caviar: Hovering around the five-dollar mark.
New York could do with cheaper groceries!
The UFCW had to hire picketers to stand outside WalMart protesting the plan to build a superstore or whatever they call the ones that sell groceries. The union members won't do it.
In the meantime, the unionized stores aren't doing so well. Wegmans and Price Chopper are killing them. No pickets there, because the UFCW isn't about "unfair" competition or its member's jobs, it's about getting more union members and more union dues and maintaining the union's political influence and WalMart is big.
MarkD at April 29, 2011 7:34 AM
Ever see the Daily Show segment on how the unions hire non union members to protest, and then dont pay them union wages because its too expensive?
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-september-20-2010/working-stiffed
lujlp at April 29, 2011 11:31 PM
I don't shop at WalMart because they have awful customer service. I don't care that their prices are cheaper and I don't have any problem with their union-less store. Good is good, bad is bad, and cheaper is cheaper.
@lujlp - I caught that. It's hilarious.
NikkiG at May 20, 2011 12:35 PM
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