Grocery chains in SoCal form strike-lockout pact

AP via SFGate ^ | 4/4/7 | ALEX VEIGA

[BobS]

There is a Mexican-owned supermarket called Jons in Canoga Park that has the biggest vegetables you can find. And cuts of steak that will make you drool all the way home. They have to be buying the best stuff from those farms in Ventura without going through the wholesale market in L.A.

[SevenofNine]

DUDE I know what you talking about my co worker shop at there LOL!

YEAH BABY that store kick a***

[eleni121]

I would definitely shop at a non union store or one trying to rein in the ruinous unions. Ruinous? Yes, and that is why may of us do not buy UAW built cars.

Unions are an anachronism...should be shut down. There are already so many laws on the books protecting workers—worse than France.

[Mark was here]

Is it legal for companies to make pacts like this? I would have expected it to be a violation of anti-trust laws.

Sounds like collective bargaining to me!

I know when one electrical supply house in the Detroit area went on strike about 10 years ago, all the other places were locked out also. After that the place I go to voted the out union.

[BobS]

There is another one called Vallarta on Roscoe Blvd. near Canoga Ave. I think they buy directly from the farmers and not that big produce market downtown. The best stuff there gets shipped to other states. You can do the same if you want. Drive down Wendy Drive from the Ventura FWY and check out what those coastal farms are growing. Give the manager $5 and you can pick a boxfull. There is a field of big asparagus there that will ready to pick in about 2 weeks.

[SevenofNine]

MAN I wish connect to FR when last grocery store strike happen I be going to those stores instead LOL!

Look like what I hearing right I think Albertsons going file chapter 11 bankruptcy

[SevenofNine]

MAN I wish connect to FR when last grocery store strike happen I be going to those stores instead LOL!

Look like what I hearing right I think Albertsons going file chapter 11 bankruptcy

[Fiji Hill]

I hope they do strike again...I like crossing picket lines.

During the last strike, I once shopped at an Albertson's that had been targeted for a demonstration. As I exited, some of the strikers yelled at me, "Shame! Shame!" Whereupon, I waved my sales slip in their faces, and they shouted some more. I knew they wouldn't do more than yell, since there was a cop keeping watch.

[4yearlurker]

I cut meat in supermarkets over the last 20 years or so in South Jersey and here in south western PA. I worked in Shop-n-Bag stores that are all closed now. Also some Shop-Rites that have since folded. All were Union shops. About 20 years ago there was a small market here in the Mon-valley. The cashiers voted for a Union. They were now making more money per hour than all the other workers. That store closed 2 months later. Nice work Unions!!!

[BobS]

Just check out those big coastal farms in Ventura for yourself. It's a great sight when you drive down the mountain and you see all that farmland with the sun shining above.

Go north on Partrero Road until you get to Port Hueneme State Beach. It's a very nice place and the biggest little secret. If you see seagulls flying around, go fishing off the pier there. There is a little restaurant if you don't catch anything. Clean beach. And you can see the islands. Romances started there:)