Thursday Links
Where the Beers and the Jeers Flow Freely [NY Times] Coney’s “Shoot the Freak” Is Bulldozed [NY Post] 1,500 WWII Shells Found Near Verrazano [NY Post] Admiral’s Row Relic Sending Out an SOS [NY Daily News] Pols Fight to Keep Walmart Out [Brooklyn Paper] 74 Trees Felled By Tornado Are Replanted (photo) [Brooklyn Eagle] Police…
Where the Beers and the Jeers Flow Freely [NY Times]
Coney’s “Shoot the Freak” Is Bulldozed [NY Post]
1,500 WWII Shells Found Near Verrazano [NY Post]
Admiral’s Row Relic Sending Out an SOS [NY Daily News]
Pols Fight to Keep Walmart Out [Brooklyn Paper]
74 Trees Felled By Tornado Are Replanted (photo) [Brooklyn Eagle]
Police Search For Armed Brooklyn Robber [NY1]
Census 2010: Bed-Stuy Gentrified [Patch]
No Stay of Construction [Atlantic Yards Report]
You all know that the stuff they sell at Walmart, is not the same quality you may find at other stores, right? Walmart dictates the price, manufactures who want a piece of the action have to either cut back on the quality of their product or find a cheaper labor source. That means less stitches per inch, less glue, cheaper zippers, buttons, and screws, thinner gauge metal, ect.
Made in USA>Made in China>Made in Vietnam>Made in Bangladesh.
I think Manhattan should have the first Walmart.
“PS – Brooklynites who like Walmart go to Walmarts in Nassau County. Nassau gets the sales tax. NYC doesn’t.”
Or Jersey 🙂
so – if Walmart didn’t fight unionization with everything they have perhaps they wouldn’t find such resistance.
Uh Pete, is Target unionized? Barnes and Noble? Trader Joes? Is name your favorite retailer unionized?
EVERY employer fights unionization with everything they have. As long as they do it legally, I have no problem with it.
You would have to be nuts to say “hi union, welcome to the premises, looking forward to contract negotiations with you.”
PS – Brooklynites who like Walmart go to Walmarts in Nassau County. Nassau gets the sales tax. NYC doesn’t.
“The local business guys money recirculates in the area – walmart profits go far away. Do some research and study your economics books again.”
Aside from wages, the money that goes to “cost of goods sold” goes to where the goods are produced. I don’t see local businesses making the things in their yards that walmart sells.
Wages stay with the people and Walmart hires more people than anyone else in this country.
so – if Walmart didn’t fight unionization with everything they have perhaps they wouldn’t find such resistance.
They record on labor issues is abyssmal.
But you forget that the ‘small business’ lobby is more powerful and those businessman have more clout than any union for people who make barely above minimum.
Do you have any stats that after walmart there are morejobs in a community? I doubt it.
The local business guys money recirculates in the area – walmart profits go far away. Do some research and study your economics books again.
We need a new weekly thread category here on ‘Stoner. It should be called “Qwitcherbitchin.” First up, Anti-Walmarters. Next, those still howling and trying in vain to stop the arena.
I can’t stop laughing at Charles Barron using the word “plantation.”
That’s exactly it, suburbandude, the stranglehold that these unions have on the politicians. WMT is fighting a big fight in Chicago as well. They actually want to bring in 6-8 new stores but the unions are saying unless they pay XXX wages, they should only bring in 2….and therefore thousands more don’t get new WMT jobs.
UNIONS, read the handwriting on the walls!!!!!
Dumbasses. These politicians should ask the local residents if they want a Walmart. If they want the jobs that come with Walmart. If they want the affordable goods available there. I’m willing to bet none of those damned political cry-babies have ever shopped at one nor desperately need the savings that shopping at Walmart provides. This garbage about running smaller shops out of business is just that…garbage. So what if they do close down? Compete price-wise or get out. Anyone who doesn’t like how Walmart operates can not shop there/not work there.