Aldi's Grand Opening
From:
jill laxen
Date:
Jan 22 18:07 UTC
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SuperValu bailed out of north Minneapolis years ago, as did Kowalski's AND
Target. I hope you're not insinuating that Kowalski's and Target pay union
wages? Target is a notorious part-time employer offering little if any benefits
and Kowalski's claimed they "couldn't make it" on the north side. Hard to
believe considering the audacious markup on their items at their stores on
Grand Avenue and elsewhere.
North Minneapolis didn't have a grocery store for decades - I just hope Aldi's
sticks around for awhile.
Jill Laxen
Cleveland
only a wagon-ride away from Aldi's on Penn & Lowry this summer....
----- Original Message ----
From: Tim Bonham <<email obscured>>
To: Minneapolis Issues Forum <<email obscured>>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:36:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Aldi's Grand Opening
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.
Tim Bonham
Standish Ericsson/Ward 12, Minneapolis
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