Posted on 12/11/2004 5:45:15 AM PST by mek1959
Safeway Inc. yesterday said that for the first time, it will open many of its supermarkets on Christmas Day, a move that triggered an angry protest from the union representing the grocer's Washington area employees.
Safeway will become the region's first -- and only -- major supermarket chain to operate stores on Christmas, one of the last holidays observed by U.S. grocers, which now routinely open on Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
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There will always be the first day of Ramadan! How soon until businesses start closing then?
If Safeway wants to do this, then so be it.
I myself wouldn't work there, and if it means anything to some lurking Safeway exec...I make it a point to shop at PC Richard and Sons, which is NEVER open on either Thanksgiving Day or Christmas.
Regards,
Anywhere you could reach in that period of time you could reach over the weekend if you wished.
I really doubt they will have any trouble getting volunteers. They will not be running full staff after all.
I guess the only way to support these workers is to have all of us boycott Safeway on Christmas Day, then they will drop the idea next year. Besides, isn't that what 7-11 is for?
And you would not believe the types you get in there.
Liberalism always works in tiny increments. They take small victories and snowball them. I remember when the first smoking ban on airliners took place. Domestic flights under two hours. That's all. And if you opposed something like that, why you were just some kind of nutcase whacko. Today we have cities trying to ban smoking EVERYWHERE. (I don't smoke.) Conservatives lost this country one tiny battle at a time, by always yielding on the baby steps.
Christmas is something special and sacred that should be preserved, but it's no wonder that this latest disrespect has materialized, given the efforts to make it illegal in some places to even say MERRY CHRISTMAS.
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With the drumbeat we've been hearing about separation of religion and morality (not church--there's no church involved) and state (not one particle of which is in the US Constitution, but which is in the Constitution of the Soviet Union!) why shouldn't businesses remain open on all religious holidays?
I wonder if doing away with this custom isn't a preview of what's to come on separating religion and state? To be consistent, perhaps we can do away with days Saturdays and Sundays off, since those "days of rest" came from religion.
Will we do away with the week itself, since it's of purely Biblical origin? The day, month, and year are based upon astronomical phenomena, the motions of the earth and moon. However, the week is not based on astronomy, but on the week in Genesis. Aw-aw! We can't have that! Maybe when unions (and others) lose not only their religious holidays, but also their weekends off, they may pick up their pitchforks and torches and put a stop to the separation of religion or morality and state. Should be an interesting time!
Sure, money is more important to Safeway than their employees' personal lives, and I think they are morally wrong. But I don't want their right to be greedy pigs legislated away.
As a nurse, I have been forced to work many a holiday, and for time-and-a-half, not triple time. I hated every minute of it, but endured it because I realized it came with the territory. I could have looked for a different job, but I chose not to. The Safeway employees that object to the policy are in the same boat.
Safeway has a right to be greedy and self-serving, but the employees have the right to quit and the customers have the right to stay away and hurt them in the pocketbook. Money really does talk.
I thought you posted the story so I included you in. I see now your #2, hmmmm.
Something interesting, Publix is in Florida and I shop there all of the time. I remember Safeway wanted to buy Public out about 2 years ago.
Glad it didn't happen.
Merry Christmas!
I've worked Christmas, and Thanksgiving, about 15 years ago...
Movie theatres are open every day.
Not in a movie theatre.
Huh? That doesn't make sense. Do you think they're opening Xmas for their health?
Would it be closer to the point to presume that you don't care?
Used to go in with the Mr. on Christmas and Thanksgiving to make dough at the pizza restaurant he managed --- the phone would ring off the hook, people wanting pizza.
Sounds great!
Also sounds like you might have a start on a modern day Dickens tale with Safeway. ;o)
I post it about once a day, 2004 certainly wasn't a vintage year for FReepers.
You seem awfully attached to the world.
Used to go in with the Mr. on Christmas and Thanksgiving to make dough at the pizza restaurant he managed
Money, get away.
Get a good job with good pay and you’re okay.
Money, it’s a gas.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I’ll buy me a football team.
Money, get back.
I’m all right jack keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it’s a hit.
Don’t give me that do goody good bullshit.
I’m in the high-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet.
Money, it’s a crime.
Share it fairly but don’t take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise it’s no surprise that they’re
Giving none away . . .
I have no idea what kind of area you live in but, if its got a Safeway, I'm pretty sure its got some small stores operated by Muslims or Jews.
If the very thought that someone else isn't celebrating Christmas in the same manner you are is offensive, then you are very easily offended, indeed.
A Jew, a Muslim, even an honest atheist would have difficulty offending me on this thread, but I don't see any of them speaking out here. It's just obtuse nominal Christians like you that get my juices flowing.
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