Posted on 01/18/2016 5:41:11 AM PST by Rockitz
Los Angeles residents of impoverished Chinatown were shocked to learn on January 17 that the Walmart they pleaded for years to get would be shut down at 7 p.m. Sunday evening due to the city’s new $15 minimum wage ordinance, and union harassment.
(Update: The closure was described by the company as one of 154 closures “that took into account a number of factors, including financial performance as well as strategic alignment with long-term plans.â€)
Immigrant Hispanic and Asian residents of central Los Angeles campaigned for years for a “big box†retailer to locate in their economically depressed neighborhood to compete against liquor stores that sold a limited number of food items at very high prices. In September 2013, Walmart finally opened a 33,000-square-foot grocery and drug store in the Chinatown area.
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Liberals piously called this negative impact a “reasonable tradeoff worth embracing,†whereas conservatives and business owners called it proof that risky government interference would destroy jobs and put more people on welfare. But there are no independent studies of what a 50 percent, let alone 100 percent increase would do.
Furthermore, Walmart’s closure in Los Angeles means that shoppers will still be able to go to neighboring cities to shop at Walmart, taking sales tax payments away from LA.
Breitbart News reported in late July that local union bosses want their locals exempted from the law, since businesses were already making plans to cut employee head count.
The same month, McDonald’s opened its first robotic restaurant in Phoenix, and hotels in L.A. announced they were planning to reduce guests’ daily room cleaning, or charging extra for doing so.
Private sector union membership has plummeted from almost 40 percent of the workforce in the 1960s to a new low of 6.6 percent in 2015.
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"McDonald’s opened its first robotic restaurant in Phoenix..."
That's gonna put a real crimp in union dues receipts.
How long til the robots get hacked into joining a union ?
And Mitt Romney says the GOP is “nuts” for not advocating an increase in the minimum wage!!
As usual, elite idiocy!
“Only an intellectual could believe that. No ordinary man would be such a fool!” - George Orwell
Those liquor stores are all owned by Asians (mostly Koreans it seems) so the Asians of C-Town are being taken advantage of by their own brethren.
A fact I would like to know is this: “How much shoplifting occurred at this WalMart store vs the typical WalMart store?”
The $15 hour may have been the excuse given for closing a money losing store due to theft.
Oh, oh. A big box desert. What will the obamas’ do about this? Mandate the store stay open?
When humans join unions, crowd madness develops. But when robots join unions, the opposite may occur—a collective intelligence may develop.
Shhh!
Don't give the jug-eared freaking idiot any ideas.
You reap what you sow.
They wanted $15.00 wages and unionization, they got it and look at the wonderful results of their socialist/communist actions.
Serves them right!
Liberals. So much smarter than the rest of us! *SMIRK*
They mount the cameras in the big ticket areas. Dry Grocery and bakery is comparatively chump change. Not to say that a store in a blighted area isn’t getting raped by its customers. Wages and benefits are the number one expense for just about any retail store.
Not exactly on point, but: “Private union membership has plummeted from 40% in the 60’s to 6.6%...”
Meanwhile PUBLIC union membership has soared, and created a new class of overpaid apparatchiks who direct our lives, can’t be fired, and are guaranteed old-age wealth through overly generous pensions.
At least the robots don’t spit or sh#t in your food. And they are probably more courteous.
What’s to complain about two times in a row they got what they asked for.
Consumers pay ALL taxes ultimately. Same w wage hikes. Every business must pass on its costs to consumers. When the left increases taxes so the “”greedy oil companies pay their fare share” the single mom working two jobs pays $4 for gas instead of $2. Find a city run by the left and that’s where the most desperate are trapped. Unless they’ve been forced out by the elites.
Walmart stores are closing in my area, too. However, it has nothing to do with $15.00/hr wages because nobody here earns that!
I think they’re hiding their bad numbers.
If the workers had the right connections to the Obama administration, they could apply for a grant to create a worker-owned store. Doesn’t matter then if they make a profit or not, they would operate off of the guaranteed loan from the government indefinitely.
They mount the cameras in the big ticket areas. Dry Grocery and bakery is comparatively chump change. Not to say that a store in a blighted area isn’t getting raped by its customers. Wages and benefits are the number one expense for just about any retail store.
Oh, oh. A big box desert. What will the obamas’.....
As a kid in NY they had automats. Not sure of spelling.
Put in your money open the little “mailbox door” and retrieve your food. Probably still have them.
But as a kid, it was great fun.
Almost as much fun as putting in 25 cents into a cigarette machine to get your parents a pack of cigarettes and matches at the bar.
Miss the good life. ;>)
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