Hey strikers and lockout victims, you are making

[Clete]

a difference. I picked this up off my local news:

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Business booming for non-union stores


Matt Cota


Santa Barbara, CA, Oct. 13 - Non- union stores like Trader Joe's and Lazy Acres Market are benefiting financially from the strike that is affecting Albertsons, Ralph's, and Vons stores from Paso Robles to San Diego.<snip>

More at: http://www.msnbc.com/local/ksby/m331803.asp?vts=101420031929

I'm not happy that the non-union stores are picking up business, but it means that consumers are honoring the picket lines. I particularly noticed the half empty parking lots of those named supermarkets in my town, which is very Republican.

[Trajan]

1. Shop at Stater Bros. ....

A union shop that signed an interim BU agreement which preserved wages and health care benefits .....

[Clete]

2. I wish we had Stater Bros. in my area.

Great stores. They can take over Ralphs any day as far as I'm concerned.

[Tempest]

3. Same thing happening in Bakersfield

Big article in today's paper on how smaller stores are seeing a large uptick in business.

[burrowowl]

4. Good

just so they don't go to the big boxes like Wallyworld.

[Tempest]

7. No Walmarts sell groceries in Bakersfield

They're coming though. City council approved two of them.

[Clete]

5. Bakersfield too?

Fabulous.

[Tempest]

8. Big union town

The oil industry is union and they are the biggest employer in the area. Add in the city, county and state workers and Bakersfield is one big happy union family.

[reachout]

6. For anyone who doesn't know

There's also a big grocery workers strike in St. Louis. Ten thousand members of The United Food and Commercial Workers' Local 655 are striking all the Schnuck's, Shop N Save, and Dierberg's. The stores have brought in scabs, but they aren't getting much business either.