The pickets are being honored out here in Ontario (suburbia), out here there are already plenty of alternatives to Albertsons, Vons, and Ralphs. Combined with the teamsters sympathy strikes at distribution warehoueses and there is NO POINT in crossing the picket lines. The stores are largely empty of merchandise anyhow, and their bakeries, pharmacies, delli's are all closed (which is the main reason to go to a store like Alebertson's anyhow).
A pox on both their houses.
Not here in San Diego. The shelves are well-organized. Maybe they'll be missing one of the ten available varieties of each thing, but that's hardly "empty." Vons had some good sale prices on a few items, and they actually didn't run out of the sale items, unlike in the past when the sale items would always run out before the weekend.
bakeries, pharmacies, deli's are all closed (which is the main reason to go to a store like Alebertson's anyhow).
I think some just have reduced hours, but they're not all closed; I saw that the pharmacies are open reduced hours. I don't use those services, but the stores are probably losing a lot of their profits from those high-margin services. Meat counters were closed when I went to Ralphs a few weeks ago.
I remember when the unions drove Safeway clear out of Texas, about 12 years ago. Safeway stores became Apple Tree, which was later bought out by Randall's, which had higher prices and fewer stores than Safeway.
I usually shop at both Safeway and Albertsons here in No. California, but I will be doing all of my shopping at Safeway, until this blows over. Besides, Safeway has home delivery, no delivery fee on orders over $150, the same prices as in the store, and really fresh meats and produce.