Honk if You're Not Down With Walmart
The group Walmart Free NYC released a study that, according to the Daily News, says Walmart’s designs on East New York would result in a gridlock nightmare. The article notes: “The report predicted that if the planned Gateway II shopping center included a Walmart, it would draw 10,692 more cars every weekday than the mall’s…
The group Walmart Free NYC released a study that, according to the Daily News, says Walmart’s designs on East New York would result in a gridlock nightmare. The article notes: “The report predicted that if the planned Gateway II shopping center included a Walmart, it would draw 10,692 more cars every weekday than the mall’s developers predicted in their environmental study. That’s a 32% jump in traffic, they said….All the new vehicles would slow traffic by 29% on the already congested Shore Parkway, the study found.” No word on whether the group is conducting a similar study about how a ShopRite might affect the area. Meanwhile, Gateway II developer the Related Companies tells the newspaper that the study is poppycock. In other Walmart-is-coming news, an article in Crain’s brings word of the following: “Walmart has reached a deal in principle with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York that guarantees union workers will construct or renovate any stores that the retailer opens in the city during the next five years. The deal is a coup for Wal-mart Stores Inc., which faces stiff opposition from grocery and retail unions worried that the retailer’s entry into the New York City market will put downward pressure on the salaries of their members.”
Brooklyn Walmart Foes Say Plan is Traffic Jam in the Making [Daily News]
Walmart Inks Construction Union Deal [Crain’s]
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7000 comments ago someone was comparing wages and benefits at Walmart’s, Target and Costco. Costco definitely pays better with better benefits.
From Wiki:
While some former Price Club locations in California and the northeastern United States are staffed by Teamsters,[46] the majority of Costco locations are not unionized. The non-union locations have revisions to their Costco Employee Agreement every three years concurrent with union contract ratifications in locations with collective bargaining agreements. Similar to a union contract, the Employee Agreement sets forth such things as benefits, compensations, wages, disciplinary procedures, paid holidays, bonuses, and seniority. As of March 2008, non-supervisory hourly wages ranged from $11.00 to $20.50 in the United States, $11.00 to $22.15 in Canada, and £6.28 to £10.00 in the United Kingdom. In the US, eighty-five percent of Costco’s workers have health insurance, compared with less than fifty percent at Walmart and Target.[47]
biff,
…just look in the Brooklyn Heights Aisle for some
Ginkgo Biloba, it’s on sale. 😉
babs,
ha ha,
There’s a live poultry shop on St. Nicholas off Flushing Ave.!
I think walmart will be selling that DVD
I’m sorry, can someone please re-direct me to the Open Thread?
*slivers out red-faced with embarrassment*
Dona will be played by the love child of Gilda Ratner and Amy Irving.
On Sarah Palin – you can cite every female (or male) democratic politician you feel is stupid, and it will not make Palin any brighter, more qualified or fit for a high office in this country.
On Walmart – as far as I am concerned there is no justification for community input unless they are requesting some sort of government action on their behalf – and even then the consideration should and must be the same as any other similarly situated retail business ordinarily gets.
Coke, Legion – although I like your Bushwick aisle better (the Beg Bugs are the key element, obviously!)
And actually, Wal-mart’s low wages and lack of health-care benefits are a disincentive for people on public assistance to work there – as soon as you start to earn a little money, the city kicks you off welfare and out of Medicaid. It happened to a friend of mine when she got a job with the census (which didn’t have benefits either, and didn’t pay enough for her to afford to buy her own insurance). After that gig ended, she had to reapply for everything and was turned down because she had worked in the past six months.
Aisle 7 (or is it 8?) Bushwick – Auto Parts, Live Chickens, and Bedbugs
“Brooklyn Heights – depends, ben gay, bran muffins”
lol!
true.