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Posted on 07/20/2015 12:56:13 PM PDT by Lorianne
Yea sure fine
I haven’t seen an A&P in years. I didn’t realize they still exist.
Thanks for two examples union marxism, suicidal scorched earth parasites.
Funny that most viruses, worms and protozoa know better than to kill the host.
was no Piggly Wiggly!
Have you ever read the magazine Economist?
Was my favorite coffee..8 o’clock French Roast.
Don’t forget Hostess.
Right you are.
Union bass turds nearly killed off an American food icon - the Twinkie ;n)
45 or so years ago I had the opportunity to work at the grocery store. Best paying job in town for a kid. All the guys that worked there, and girls, drove near new cars within the first year of working there.
I turned the job down flat. Turns out I “had” to join the union in a right to work state.
I mowed lawns and hauled trash and never looked back on the “loss”.
Yup!
The union struck our local Ralph’s and won, then it closed. Now they all have to drive down the hill to go to work.
The biggest flaw is that they dismissed one of the most important factors -- namely, competition in the retail sector -- out of hand. And yet this was probably a bigger factor than any of the ones they cited. One of the reader comments below the article points this out clearly, and suggests that ZeroHedge itself has been posting articles about overcapacity in the retail sector for years.
They would have done the subject much more justice if they had done an in-depth analysis of these competitive factors. A&P is now competing with a number of grocery store chains that didn't even exist as recently as a couple of decades ago.
Anyway, one of my favorite short stories of all time is about A&P. A great read for a hot summer afternoon if you want to follow the link.
A&P may have had the first supermarkets but for a long time, they were not self-service. You brought your list to the store and the clerk would fill the order for you. The first "self-service" supermarket, where you would walk in and fill up your own cart (a novel concept at the time), was actually the Piggly-Wiggly which opened it's first branch in 1916. Memphis, Tennessee.
Those "backward hicks" taught the rest of the country a thing or two about supermarkets! Piggly Wiggly was the very first food market to provide checkout slots, issue shopping carts for customers and actually mark prices on every item (before you would have to either haggle the price or accept whatever price the clerk gave you).
Piggly Wiggly is still a thriving chain today and you can find them throughout the Southland - usually with a Waffle House nearby. Which deserves a thread of its own. I love the Waffle House.
Eight O'Clock is still very alive and well and fresh brewed here daily!
I don't recall Economist having a squadron of writers writing under the same pseudonym. I do recall most of their articles having no byline at all. And the guy who wrote the Schumpeter column was known by all (he was an editor, or something). I remember that they would announce when the regular writer was on vacation, and someone else was writing the column. So what's your point?
They don’t have many people wrtiing under the same pseudonym, but almost all articles are ‘anonymous’, even the regular nws articls IIRC. The point is, such use of pseudonyms doesn’t neccesarily have anything to do with anything.
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