Posted on 02/04/2006 8:42:30 AM PST by LdSentinal
A slim 51% majority of New Yorkers support the opening of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the city, according to a poll released Friday.
A new Quinnipiac University poll found that 74% of city voters agree that Wal-Mart’s lower prices hurt smaller businesses. Yet 70% agreed that the low prices benefit people who shop there.
Forty-six percent said Wal-Mart should be allowed to open only if it allows workers to unionize. Still, 65% -- including 63% among voters from union households -- said that they would shop at Wal-Mart if one opened near them.
“New Yorkers sympathize with the plight of their fellow workers and their local mom and pop stores, but a bargain is a bargain,” said Quinnipiac Poll Director Douglas Schwartz, in a statement.
Wal-Mart has tried for years to open in the New York City market but faces opposition from city officials and labor leaders who say the retailer provides insufficient pay and health benefits.
From Jan. 25 to 30, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,072 New York City registered voters, with a +/- 3% margin of error.
This might seem off topic, but look at the New Orleans fiasco. Nagin is begging for the residents to come back to N.O. The people are too sorry to move out of the FEMA (U.S. tax dollar) paid for motel rooms and rebuild their own DAMN city. Pathetic! Nations have always imported goods. What has changed is that the imports used to be expensive luxury goods - not - stuff that any idiot could produce.
This is a fascinating debate which would evaporate completely if people understood Econ 101. With respect to imports, try to understand that we export our expensive things in as much as other countries have any money. If, on the other hand, we don't buy what they have, they will migrate and move in next door to you.
Word up!
Wal-Mart is not the enemy, UNIONS are!
Paleese. If Wal Mart was unionized no one would give a damn about the mom and pops or the so-called "effect it is having on the economy".
Well to be frank, the union members don't control the union leaders.
If I lived in N.O before Kathrina, I would not move to back to N.O. until the levee system was fixed.
I still would be out of the FEMA home/trailer/hotel ASAP.
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