[Chi-townChief]

WOW - 'good' Target is going the same route as bad old WalMart. This should piss off a few lefties.

[mainepatsfan]

So only the "big" stores have to abide by this law. So every other business in the area better not become too successful or else.

[AmericaUnited]

For once I'm proud of something "French", showing some brass ones.

[toddlintown]

Maybe the spread of HIV/AIDS after the Gay Games will occupy the time of the alderman who don't like guns, cigarettes, trans fats, or foie gras.

I hope Target and all the big boxes come out to Will County (heavy Republican) where growth is spectacular.

[the invisib1e hand]

"Chicago...." "big-box...." "wage rule...." the race of the alderman was specified (why is that newsworthy if color isn't supposed to matter?) --- all the buzzwords of a fat, lazy, dog-days shakedown.

[Chi-townChief]

CHICAGO PING

[Brilliant]

The minimum wage is going to be at $7.25 everywhere in short order anyway. I don't think they are actually going to leave. They'll threaten. But there is no where to run.


It really doesn't make sense to leave even if the minimum does not go up everywhere else. You just raise your prices to cover it, and you give that as your reason.

[onevoter]

"Ald. Joe Moore (49th), chief sponsor of the big-box ordinance, accused Target and Wal-Mart of using "bullying tactics" to stop a train that has already left the station."

Gotta love the way the libs insist that they have the right to demand that Target and Walmart build in their area, all the while giving up any rights to make their own decisions in regards to running the store. As far as I can see, if a person doesn't want to work for $8 an hour, they simply don't apply for the job. Raising the wages would only result in higher product cost - that way everyone gets to move backward.

[Mr. Brightside]

Our largest employer in the 34th Ward is the Police Department.

Maybe they should open another Bix Box Police Department.

The city is lucky that ANY business wants to open in this district.

[John D]

WOW - 'good' Target is going the same route as bad old WalMart. This should piss off a few lefties.



And a few Freepers.

[rhombus]

What makes this story so delicious is that so many lefties seem to worship Target as the anti-Walmart. I have long wondered why some embattled larger corporation did not exercise a boycot of their own and simply refuse to do business in states or cities where they are harassed. Can you imagine if one (or better yet all) of the tobacco comapnies just decided they would no longer sell their legal products in a state? Tax revenues would plummet and government officials would be demanding the resumption of sales.

[cbkaty]

The saber-rattling is intensifying as the clock winds down toward a July 26 showdown vote on plans to make Chicago the nation's first major city to establish a "living wage" for stores with at least 90,000 square feet of space operated by retailers with $1 billion in sales.

So build 89,999 SF stores with the design ability to shed SF, based on changing standards....

[conservativehusker]

I love the idea of running a shuttle bus from Chicago to the Walmart in the suburbs.!!!

I figure it would take a few months for the liberals to find a law squashing that..but it would be great to see....they could make a point to drive by city hall and maybe have a counter on the bus to show how many shoppers they pull from the city everyday!!!

[Marathoner]

"Wal-Mart and Target could pay their people a living wage. Then we wouldn't have this problem, and people could actually live on the money they made," Hairston said.

Well, geez, Ms. Hairston, you seem to know so much about how to run a Walmart or Target store, why don't you just step in and take over as CEO?

Typical liberal the state should run everything mindset.

[joshhiggins]

Union thugs taking pot shots at Walmart and hitting their Target

[jimfree]

Brookins said Wal-Mart executives have told him they may take the lead of the riverboat casinos that ring Chicago...

It was here that Mrs. jimfree smiled and asked if they were going to build a floating store in Lake Michigan. Then I read on:

and run free shuttle buses to their suburban stores if the big-box ordinance passes.

It's a great idea, but the image of a container ship moored in the lake with a senior citizen greeter and 45 checkout lanes is forever etched in her mind.

[joshhiggins]

establish a "living wage" for stores with at least 90,000 square feet of space operated by retailers with $1 billion in sales. and whose name begins with the letter W.

There fixed it.

[OldFriend]

The demonrats just don't get it and will be the losers every time.

[Right Wing Assault]

I think they should force all the big stores to run charity stores where all the merchandise is free to people who live in the neighborhood. They would need to hire a lot of people to stock the shelves and they should be paid at least $25 an hour since they will be working so hard.

OK, African-American councilpersons, do you see any flaws in this plan? If so, how would you improve it if you were the owner of the store?

[Eagles Talon IV]

Excellent move by Target. let the consumer decide if these stores will be built by letting their Representatives know they will be help to blame if their choices of where to spend their money are curtailed for political reasons.

[driftdiver]

So Target is gonna close those stores.

Its so unlike the French to surrender.