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Let me see here. I am looking at my medical insurance costs for 2004, as it is open enrollment, and my employer just renewed for 2004. The employee cost of insurance is going to be $37 a week for an employee and spouse to be in an HMO plan and $80 a week to be in a PPO plan. For family coverage, those premiums are $50 for HMO and $103 for PPO. That's per week folks. So, if I want to ensure my spouse and children in a PPO plan, the annual cost to me is $5,356. By the way, my employer pays a good bit more of the premium cost than do most other manufacturing concerns in Southern California.

All employees in my company pay the same - the union employees, salaried employees and management. So, I should care because the supermarket workers are not willing to pay any of their health insurance costs?

These people are dumber than Rodney King. Talks broke off again over the weekend. At this rate, the strike will go into next year. When it finally is over, many of them will be let go because shoppers have found other alternatives. Can the strikers say Trader Joes, Costo, Walmart, Sam's Club, Stater Brothers, etc??????

Right now, walmart is making a big push into Southern California with their Walmart Superstores. For example, in the Palm Springs area, one just opened, and two more are about to start construction. Three Walmart Superstores in a valley with a population of around 300,000. I wonder just how many Ralphs, Vons, and Albertsons will be closing their doors in a couple of years.

Food prices in the union stores are outrageous. It can be cheaper just to eat out at family type restaurants. To top it all off, there is a over-abundance of super market stores in So Cal on a population basis. This over-capacity situation alone will result in many store closings in the years ahead. The impact on the other stores in any shopping center anchored by a supermarket will be staggering when the super closes.

I haven't shopped regularly at a Safeway or Albertson's for quite some time now. I shop at Lunardi's (Walnut Creek). They have a full-service meat counter and deli which are far superior to the other supers. Their meat and fish is much better, as is their produce. The prices are lower than I find at Albertson's and Safeway. Lunardi's has seven locations in the Bay Area.

These people are dumber than Rodney King.

Great line, LOL. Quit making sense and presenting the facts...the socialists will never get it anyhow! Life owes them a living, remember? They worship the Government Religion and expect to take money out of the collection plate, not put it in.