Posted on 10/16/2022 10:49:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Woman: What? No rutabagas again? Next time I run into my agricultural commissar I’m gonna shove a shiv between his ribs. A nice sharpened one.
SIgh. DIdn’t know they were a union shop. I don’t believe the parent company of Shaws (Star Market) was a union shop. We have three chains we mix and match based on what we want to buy, Stop and Shop (worst) Shaws (better) Market Basket (best)
Stop and Shop and Shaws are unionized. Market Basket is not. And it is the best for service, even when it isn’t best for prices.
Like I said, we mix and match.
Where are you, in Connecticut, Shaws and Edwards faded but Big Y came in, and Shop-Rite stuck around more or less.
The little town in the midwest, where my wife grew up still has one gas station with snacks and cold drinks open, one bar with evening meals and a cafe open for breakfast and lunch Monday~Friday and zero churches still open.
12 miles away, there is a shopping center with a grocery store and a few other stores in a small but steady population a mile away.
There is a Costco and a Walmart about 15 miles away.
Their food comes from the one grocery store, Costco or Walmart or Amazon deliveries.
One of her brothers still lives in that town and another brother lives in a similar situation about 120 miles away.
They meet for lunch or brunch twice a month in a cross road complex 60 miles from each of them. They bring dinner home for their wives from where they eat lunch or brunch.
They use their cell phones to talk, text and send emails to keep in touch. One wife tried to retire from her job as an office manager, and her company put a modern office into their home. She goes in Fridays for half a day and to sign papers and to keep the human touch going and a good lunch.
One of my siblings lives in the SW, and she and her husband have cousins as well as siblings of her husband within a hundred mile or less distance. They do the same thing re contact.
Last, but not least, like our relatives in the MW a lot of their food, consumables and useables are delivered when needed.
As they have aged, online visits, texting, phone calls and zooms are often the daily/weekly means of communicating with each other. Shopping in stores is a rarity for both groups.
No Mom or Pop’s stores are left in those areas.
Basically, no one in our families, now, goes just shopping to shop and maybe have to lunch with friends or a friend. Covid basically “killed” that in our families here on the coast, in the MW and SW. We don’t wear masks, nor are we afraid of Covid. We just are out of the go out for lunch or to shop. High gas prices are also an issue with many of us.
Fundraising.
Kroger is also unionized, comrade Bernie!
And that one grocery chain will be perpetually out of stock on most of the items you actually want.
The stores for the elites will have plenty of stuff.
Nope.
Knee jerk socialist pissing about those eeevil capitalists. Several major grocery stores around here, neither Kroger’s nor Albertsons anywhere near. This is a stupid non problem.
“” In some, like Salina, Kan., or Durango, Colo., the share would exceed 90 percent.”
An outright lie!
Next state up from you...:)
Good for you...:)
Few things bug me more than people who are forced to join unions against their will. I detest unions.
Nothing against those who are forced to work in them. People gotta make a living.
Yeah l have more than had my fill of comrade Bernie. He is dishonest nasty little man who inflicts as much misery as he can.
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