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NOT SO SUPER

Follow up on the supermarket strike we had out here at about this time last year. The LA Times reports: Supermarkets Still Feel Pain of Long Strike and Lockout. Yes. Let us not forget the lockout.

I supported the strike and went to Stater Brothers which is a sort of local chain; only in Southern California. I was pleasantly surprised. It is a very good store; excellent, fresh produce, meat and dairy. They don't have long distribution lines. It is about two miles further for me and I am still there.

Vons, where I used to shop, were real pricks to the strikers when they came back; the more seniority the more prickiness. Many were transferred to long commute stores. Many were given other jobs than their specialty. I know a few clerks who ended up working at Staters and they are still there. They say the old store is a mess.

I walked because of the union busting. The Safeway guy is a bastard but the stockholders would not vote to get him out. He has lost them a ton of money in bad mergers and so on, but holds the fort on this personnel issue. And so it goes.