09-07-2006, 06:43 AM
Interesting aside.
Here in California the 600 pound gorilla is called Ralph's. Ralph didn't like union wages and started competeing with himself, he called it Food for Less, that was years before he decided to go into union busting.
Food for Less were stores either built or converted in marginal neighborhoods. Places where the ethnic mix was changing and they could sell second rate produce and meat products with little complaint. Stuff they wouldn't dare put on shelves in middle class neighborhoods.
This sort of grocery merchandising has existed for decades within all chains and is rife throughout the industry.
Low income neighborhoods get shipped inferior "fresh" product. Take an amble down the street to another part of town and see what these people are offered at the same or higher prices than you see in your local mart.
Reflect on the fact that they have no SUV to jump in and go shop elsewhere and their "Cadillac Queen" money doesn't make it to the end of the month; 'splain that to the hungry kid who might one day (given a chance) cure the malady you'll die from.
We live in a sick society. When we decide that earning capacity equals goodness, we all lose.
Here in California the 600 pound gorilla is called Ralph's. Ralph didn't like union wages and started competeing with himself, he called it Food for Less, that was years before he decided to go into union busting.
Food for Less were stores either built or converted in marginal neighborhoods. Places where the ethnic mix was changing and they could sell second rate produce and meat products with little complaint. Stuff they wouldn't dare put on shelves in middle class neighborhoods.
This sort of grocery merchandising has existed for decades within all chains and is rife throughout the industry.
Low income neighborhoods get shipped inferior "fresh" product. Take an amble down the street to another part of town and see what these people are offered at the same or higher prices than you see in your local mart.
Reflect on the fact that they have no SUV to jump in and go shop elsewhere and their "Cadillac Queen" money doesn't make it to the end of the month; 'splain that to the hungry kid who might one day (given a chance) cure the malady you'll die from.
We live in a sick society. When we decide that earning capacity equals goodness, we all lose.