Aldi's Grand Opening
From:
Tim Bonham
Date:
Jan 17 06:33 UTC
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Connie writes:
Hooray for North Minneapolis! Hooray for Aldi's! As a single person, shopping
at big box can be daunting so I'm glad for the Aldi alternative. I've found
their products to be of good quality and especially good value.
Hooray? For another non-union, foreign-owned competitor undercutting our own
local grocery stores? (SuperValu, CUB, Rainbow are all at least partially
unionized workers.)
Hooray for the Wal-Mart or the grocery business?
Aldi's exceptional profits come at the expense of the employees, who are
part-time, contract labor (thus reduced benefits). The company is notoriously
anti-union, getting rid of any workers who try to join one. And the secretive,
billionaire brothers who own Aldi's are real-life conterparts to Mr. Burns of
the Simpsons.
I suppose Aldi's food is "good value" for the money.
I understand you can also find good value in sneakers made by Asian child
labor, or good value in items made by Chinese prison labor.
But thinking about that would make me choke while eating their food.
See http://www.greenleft.org.au/2004/584/32414 for more details.
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