"McDonald’s opened its first robotic restaurant in Phoenix..."
That's gonna put a real crimp in union dues receipts.
How long til the robots get hacked into joining a union ?
And Mitt Romney says the GOP is “nuts” for not advocating an increase in the minimum wage!!
As usual, elite idiocy!
“Only an intellectual could believe that. No ordinary man would be such a fool!” - George Orwell
Those liquor stores are all owned by Asians (mostly Koreans it seems) so the Asians of C-Town are being taken advantage of by their own brethren.
A fact I would like to know is this: “How much shoplifting occurred at this WalMart store vs the typical WalMart store?”
The $15 hour may have been the excuse given for closing a money losing store due to theft.
Oh, oh. A big box desert. What will the obamas’ do about this? Mandate the store stay open?
You reap what you sow.
They wanted $15.00 wages and unionization, they got it and look at the wonderful results of their socialist/communist actions.
Serves them right!
Liberals. So much smarter than the rest of us! *SMIRK*
Not exactly on point, but: “Private union membership has plummeted from 40% in the 60’s to 6.6%...”
Meanwhile PUBLIC union membership has soared, and created a new class of overpaid apparatchiks who direct our lives, can’t be fired, and are guaranteed old-age wealth through overly generous pensions.
At least the robots don’t spit or sh#t in your food. And they are probably more courteous.
What’s to complain about two times in a row they got what they asked for.
Consumers pay ALL taxes ultimately. Same w wage hikes. Every business must pass on its costs to consumers. When the left increases taxes so the “”greedy oil companies pay their fare share” the single mom working two jobs pays $4 for gas instead of $2. Find a city run by the left and that’s where the most desperate are trapped. Unless they’ve been forced out by the elites.
Amazing how capitalism works.
In other words, it's okay for Wal-Mart to be a "climate criminal" and to destroy the earth so long as they pay their workers $15 an hour.
Of course the "climate criminal" charge is a bunch of BS, but this just goes to show the rank hypocrisy of the left. They will spout lies in order to bully people and corporations to get what they want.
I think Tom Wolfe coined it "Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers."
I can't wait for Donald Trump to get elected so that we can start pushing back on these loudmouths - who have been allowed to push their socialist leftist agenda unchallenged for all this time.
A 33,000 sq ft store is a WM neighborhood store...
There is no way that size store can support a $15.00 an hour wage...
Unions kill off the one bright things to happen in this area, a store were people can buy food at reasonable prices and services like pharmacy, check cashing, money orders... they could care less...
They are the lowest scum...
This really is a shame. Some city developers and politicians worked hard to get companies like Wal Mart and other “big box” stores to set up shop in urban areas to give inner city residents more choices. Then, with the stroke of a pen, they undercut it with these BS minimum wage increases. So inner city residents will be back to paying 20% or 30% more at Mom & Pop stores.
I saw a study based on value/volume of sales that $15.00/hour pay at Walmart adds less than a penny on the retail dollar. So if it is a low volume sales Wal Mart then it should just close and not use a min wage hike an excuse.
“Furthermore, Walmart’s closure in Los Angeles means that shoppers will still be able to go to neighboring cities to shop at Walmart”
Interesting sentence. I wonder if maybe the LA city mothers may find a way to ban travel to neighboring towns to shop. Or maybe using purchase receipts to require those “Shopping Tourists” to pay their fair share.