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Doggles posted:LuLaRoe is facing mounting debt, layoffs, and an exodus of top sellers, and sources say the $2.3 billion legging empire could be imploding Every pyramid scheme has to collapse at some point.
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Beachcomber posted:My wife grew up in the same neighborhood where one of the Wegmans lived. Their local store is unbelievable. Probably Pittsford Wegmans. It's the second most expensive (next to the one at Cornell). They have an attached restaurant at that one as well. That place is wild on sample day.
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FilthyImp posted:My friends do you remember the tale of Fresh 'n Easy stores? I loved Fresh 'n Easy while it lasted, and was sad to see it go. The location near me ended being abandoned for a few years (I saw at least two years worth of Spirit Halloweens in it). It's finally being turned into an Aldi.
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Awesome. By getting married in my parents (very nice) garden, not hiring a wedding band or DJ (Laptop and bluetooth speakers gently caress it), and getting married at 32, I am doign my part!
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Shifty Nipples posted:I imagine someone could make a lot of money turning a dead mall into a marijuana emporium. Ofecks posted:The indoor mall in my hometown of Fredericksburg, VA is apparently still standing, and doing ok maybe? I haven't been in 20+ years but apparently in that time they've done a lot of renovations and added some stuff out back over one of the former parking lots.  It's in Spotsy for tax breaks. But yeah, Costco buying the old Montgomery Ward space and renovating and expanding it in the late 90s/early 00s saved that place from dying.
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I miss Fresh 'N Easy too. But the writing on the wall when they hired the guy who hosed up Blockbuster as their last CEO.
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Kroger has a dairy plant in my city that is unionized, and I know several people with high paying jobs with great benefits that work there, so really there's no reason to shop elsewhere locally unless you're looking for something very specific and can't find it there imo.
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Reynold posted:Kroger has a dairy plant in my city that is unionized, and I know several people with high paying jobs with great benefits that work there, so really there's no reason to shop elsewhere locally unless you're looking for something very specific and can't find it there imo. Unions are literally why Wal-Mart ships their meat in prepackaged. I worked in the meat department, and several of the old-time employees remembered the plans to bring in a butcher counter, but they were quickly tabled nationwide.
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Randaconda posted:Unions are literally why Wal-Mart ships their meat in prepackaged. Yeah, they don't make the headlines like teachers or auto workers, but unions got the butcher jobs on lockdown. Weird how the people who regularly work with blades that effortlessly slice through flesh and bone want a strong union looking out for them. Well, as strong as any union in the US can be, at least.
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Acute Grill posted:Yeah, they don't make the headlines like teachers or auto workers, but unions got the butcher jobs on lockdown. They still could have put them in Florida, since we're a right to work (for nothing) state.
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Randaconda posted:They still could have put them in Florida, since we're a right to work (for nothing) state. Holy poo poo I think this is the first time I've ever seen "right to work" used correctly on SA.
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MisterOblivious posted:Holy poo poo I think this is the first time I've ever seen "right to work" used correctly on SA. Seriously? lol
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Randaconda posted:Seriously? lol People confuse right to work with another anti labor law all the time. Of all the weird things goons do it’s the most reasonable
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Alberstons used to be everywhere here in south florida, but left years ago and I really miss their fried chicken. Everyone here worships Publix in a cult like manner but I don't see what's so great about them and they're overpriced. Albertsons also had movie/game rental inside the stores which was cool. Somehow we still have a few Winn-Dixies still kicking around but no more Albertsons
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Acute Grill posted:Yeah, they don't make the headlines like teachers or auto workers, but unions got the butcher jobs on lockdown. huh, this explains why they get away with being so goddamned surly all the time
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I feel like a butchers union is more for protection for the bosses. If the butchers have no defense to being hosed over by their bosses they’ll just become thousands of mobile guillotines.
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d0s posted:Alberstons used to be everywhere here in south florida, but left years ago and I really miss their fried chicken. Everyone here worships Publix in a cult like manner but I don't see what's so great about them and they're overpriced. Albertsons also had movie/game rental inside the stores which was cool. Somehow we still have a few Winn-Dixies still kicking around but no more Albertsons Albertsons is shittier while still being overpriced. Though I agree, Publix is mediocre except for those subs
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Reynold posted:Kroger has a dairy plant in my city that is unionized, and I know several people with high paying jobs with great benefits that work there, so really there's no reason to shop elsewhere locally unless you're looking for something very specific and can't find it there imo. Kroger as a whole is unionized, they belong to the United Food & Commercial Workers. I spent a summer doing political canvassing for the AFL-CIO, and they always took us to whatever Kroger was nearby for lunch. One day I noticed the sticker on the door and had a "oooohhh" moment on why they always picked Kroger (aside from the fact that there's one every 3 feet in this area, and they have some bangin' pre-made food options).
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CharlestheHammer posted:People confuse right to work with another anti labor law all the time. out of curiosity what's the other law right to work apparently gets confused with?
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Feral Integral posted:out of curiosity what's the other law right to work apparently gets confused with? "At will employment" probably
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Iron Crowned posted:Kroger ain't going anywhere, groceries are the one thing everyone buys on a weekly to daily basis You think that, but Safeway killed Dominic's in the Chicago area really fuckin effectively.
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d0s posted:Alberstons used to be everywhere here in south florida, but left years ago and I really miss their fried chicken. Everyone here worships Publix in a cult like manner but I don't see what's so great about them and they're overpriced. Albertsons also had movie/game rental inside the stores which was cool. Somehow we still have a few Winn-Dixies still kicking around but no more Albertsons Publix costs a bit more because they pay their employees better than the other grocery chains in the state.
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Randaconda posted:Publix costs a bit more because they pay their employees better than the other grocery chains in the state. That's weird because I lived in New York for a bit and shopped at unionized Key Food and it was still cheaper than Publix (granted this was eastern Queens and not Manhattan or other high-rent areas)
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Publix is employee owned through a trust created by the original founder of the company when he died
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The same weird guy has worked at my Publix for 15 years, which I'm going to say is a good sign they pay a living wage. It usually ranks pretty high on good places to work for.
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Krispy Wafer posted:The same weird guy has worked at my Publix for 15 years, which I'm going to say is a good sign they pay a living wage.
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Yeah, Publix has pretty good pay, and if you can make to a managerial level, you can easily make 6 figures + stock options. I dunno, I always liked shopping at them because they were friendly and generally seemed cleaner and more well kept that then other places.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I'm still amazed Winn Dixie and Piggly Wiggly survive. Piggly-Wiggly seems to be a staple in depressed, forlorn Deep South towns too small to support a major chain grocery store or even a Walmart Neighborhood Store. I suppose most of you goons have never heard of Bruno's. It was the reason why young me never saw a Kroger or Publix in the flesh unless I traveled outside of central AL. Publix, Kroger and Walmart dominate the hell out of my current abode and all the other small, independent grocers are dead or dying.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I spent a summer doing political canvassing for the AFL-CIO, I like you a lot Drunk Nerds has a new favorite as of 06:02 on Nov 24, 2018 |
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Balliver Shagnasty posted:Piggly-Wiggly seems to be a staple in depressed, forlorn Deep South towns too small to support a major chain grocery store or even a Walmart Neighborhood Store. We had a Bruno's in Atlanta. It was the nicest grocery store I'd ever been into up until that point. I have no idea what other locations were like, but here they were going for the upscale market that Publix would devour a couple of years later when it entered the market.
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I went looking for that map of fake regional grocery chains, and found this particularly interesting map instead
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ExplodingSims posted:Yeah, Publix has pretty good pay, and if you can make to a managerial level, you can easily make 6 figures + stock options. And Publix subs own 
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Iron Crowned posted:I went looking for that map of fake regional grocery chains, and found this particularly interesting map instead I feel like I'm having a stroke reading that map.
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It’s weird, I live in KC but have rarely come across a Dillons. Unless they own Price Chopper?
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Maxwell Lord posted:It’s weird, I live in KC but have rarely come across a Dillons. Unless they own Price Chopper? Price Chopper is owned by Golub, and they're rebranding some of their stores as "Market 32". It's family owned for now, but it seems like they might be selling it off. (My job deals with grocery stores on the East coast.)
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Iron Crowned posted:I went looking for that map of fake regional grocery chains, and found this particularly interesting map instead Louisville has a Kroger on Lower Brownsboro which is universally known as the Dirty Kroger. When corporate in Cincinnati heard about this they spent millions renovating that location so that its now actually one of the nicer Krogers in the area. It is still known as the dirty Kroger because Louisville is one of those places where rebranding is essentially impossible. Supposedly it was such a big event that if you say Dirty Kroger to this day among the higher-ups at Cincinnati headquarters they immediately know the store you're referring to.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Louisville has a Kroger on Lower Brownsboro which is universally known as the Dirty Kroger. When corporate in Cincinnati heard about this they spent millions renovating that location so that its now actually one of the nicer Krogers in the area. It is still known as the dirty Kroger because Louisville is one of those places where rebranding is essentially impossible. Supposedly it was such a big event that if you say Dirty Kroger to this day among the higher-ups at Cincinnati headquarters they immediately know the store you're referring to. The Kroger near where I lived was called the Murder Kroger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Kroger For whatever reason Krogers had a habit of getting distinctive names (Disco, Gay, Kosher, Murder). Maybe because it was the first real big grocery store chain in the city so instead of explaining where it was you just described it's most distinctive feature or customer base. https://atlanta.curbed.com/maps/a-definitive-mildly-wrong-map-of-atl-kroger-nicknames Krispy Wafer has a new favorite as of 17:37 on Nov 24, 2018 |
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The best part about murder Kroger is when they started gentrifying that part of Ponce, the Kroger dig a big renovation and stuff to try and ditch the nickname. A week later someone got stabbed in the parking lot.
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Maxwell Lord posted:It’s weird, I live in KC but have rarely come across a Dillons. Unless they own Price Chopper? When I still lived there, Dillon's is pretty much the only purestrain grocery in all of Wichita. I mean you could go to Walmart or Target, but they're not grocery focused. I do miss being able to grab cheap Chinese food on the way out of a Dillon's.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Having gone to Publixes all my life, I can say for certain that the people working there are way nicer than any other retail store. Funny how that can work when you actually pay a decent wage. Yeah, it turns out that if your staff aren't constantly worrying about whether or not they can pay their rent this month - or eat tonight - they are much happier and more productive, which in turn makes your customers want to continue doing business with you. But it's cheaper to treat everyone like poo poo, especially when customers don't really have a choice who they do business with.
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