[CdMGuy]

Their membership, the ones who work at Safeway, should be asking their union leaders why they are organizing a boycott? Even if partially successful, less business means less need for workers, and union employees in Safeway stores would face a lay-off.

I live in So. Cal. The union has screwed their members royally. The strike is now in its third month with no end in sight. These workers will never get back the wages they lost. Once the strike is over, you can count on the supers announcing that quite a few of their stores will be closing. There is an over supply of supermarkets in So Cal. The marginal ones will be closed and the union members will be on the street.

Wal Mart is just now entering the metropolitan areas of CA with their Super Wal Mart stores. In another 2 years, the supers will be decimated unless they get their labor costs under control now.

[BurbankKarl]

I think the first SuperWalmart opens in Palm Desert 1st quarter 2004....

Gilroy 12/2004
Woodland approved
Yuba City approved
Redding approved
Chico approved
Calexico approved
Lodi voting
Manteca voting
Inglewood 2005

Turlock just voted them down
Contra Costa County, Martinez, Oakland, Simi Valley, Paso Robles zoned them out

[Smogger]

In another 2 years, the supers will be decimated unless they get their labor costs under control now.

I doubt that. For one thing there is no place to build "Super Wal-Mart's" in metropolitan Los Angeles. You can't even build a decent grocery store there. For another thing they face vastly more competition here then they do in other states. I am sure they will do alright, but the Safeway CEO's predictions of Wal-Mart World Domination are vastly exaggerated in my opinion.