Grocery union fails in bid for Fresh & Easy price tags

Contra Costa Times ^ | 9/1/12 | Eric Hartley Los Angeles Daily News

[BfloGuy]

Unions are just plain thugs.

And they're Marxist thugs, too. The union movement is one of the last vestiges of Marxism in the United States. Well, apart from that presidency thing.

[nutmeg]

It's not. It's private property, so the store would have to ask you to move, and they're not going to do that to a customer...I would hope.

Excellent... so park a big gas guzzler with anti-Obama stickers in one of those spots next time, lol!

I'll check out my local Whole Foods stores... I think they may have "Hybrid only" parking spaces as well. My car isn't a hybrid, but isn't a gas guzzler either (it's an old Toyota Camry wagon). I have plenty of anti-Obama stickers, though. ;-)

[Smogger]

There’s no law reserving those spots for hybrids. This question was asked and answered by Fresh and Easy in my local paper. Anyone can park in the so-called Hybrid spots.

[Smogger]

Well Tesco has been losing money hand over fist in an attempt to break into the grocery market. They knew it was going to cost a ton of money to invest upfront and sure enough it did, but I haven’t read that they are ready to throw in the towel yet.

Most of the stores that they mothballed were poor performing stores in areas that have been hit hard by foreclosures (Vegas, the desert, etc.)

At least I hope not. I love my local F&E.

[CdMGuy]

Yes, we like their stores as well. However, in our area, they opened a store in a location that seemed to make no sense in terms of population. Then the two stores closest to us are in populated areas with a large potential number of customers.

They removed the signs on the two unopened stores, and the local paper reported they were put up for sale. A shopping center was built across the street from the F&E closest to us that did not open. There is a Stater Brothers supermarket that is packed at all hours of the day and night. It has to be one of the highest grossing Stater Brothers markets of this local So Cal chain. F&E would have done just as well, especially considering it was located just outside the gates of a Sun City community of 9,000 seniors. Big mistake.