Aren't these the same people that tell us we should walk more and drive less....?
I used to be a grocery checker.
Long ago, there were NOT scanners & UPC’s.
With the introduction of such time saving & higher accuracy implements, the individual markings were no longer needed.
IF there is such a law about 85% of all items being marked individually, this part of the Calif law needs to be reversed.
Technology has passed it by.
I just chock it up to it being a UK store, and their launch in the US was just at the time that hybrids were really coming online; it was a fair attempt at targeting a particular market. But they don't carry enough hippie junk for the ecowarriors to love, which is just fine with me.
Quick and easy non-union stores that have fresh merchandise and meals. Between them and Sprouts, that's the majority of our shopping. Some of their products are at great prices, most are at fair prices, but the overpriced products are what you'd expect for a non-subsidized store (over the counter medicines, sanitary products, etc.)
But, all that said and done, the chain's halfway collapsing as it is. Underperforming stores are being shut down, quite a number of stores that were built and outfitted never even opened their doors and a few opened then closed right up again when issues came up about their beer and wine licenses.
I don't know if they'll be around all that much longer, but hope they do manage to hang on.
Unions are just plain thugs.
If the employees don’t want to join the union - then the union will make them suffer. Same with the employer - until they come around to “the union way of thinking.”
Thugs - every last one of them.
And the supreme court has ruled that RICO laws can not be used to stop their thuggery.
Interesting... how is this enforced? What happens if a non-hybrid parks in the "hybrid reserved" space? I'd like to try that... ;-)
I love it though. I go in once a week and raid the reduced rack. This week I bought two bags of bagels, a loaf of green chile rye, a container of spinach/asparagus dip, a fresh pizza dough, a four pack of tomatoes, a carton of those mini yellow tomatoes, 2 green apples, 4 ear of corn, an 8 pack of fresh cinnamon rolls ...for $11.
This was in California and I, for one, am shocked sh!tless.
The People’s Republic on Massachusetts used to require individual labeling and shelf tags. That was recently changed to shelf tags only as long as a certain percentage were accurate, IIRC.
“Consumer advocates” and probably Unions, fought to stop it because they believe customers are too stupid to read the shelf tag.
Our Fresh and Easy does not have those types of parking spaces. All are regular except for the handicapped.
Every time I go there they are being picketed. The picketers stand right in front of the doors and try to either make you talk to them or go around them. I love it. I get the chance to tell them to get the heck out of my way. ;)
They’d better leave Fresh and Easy alone! I really like the one by me. Great prices, good produce, and I’ve been real happy with their store brand products, too.
There’s no law reserving those spots for hybrids. This question was asked and answered by Fresh and Easy in my local paper. Anyone can park in the so-called Hybrid spots.