Date:         Sun, 25 Apr 2004 01:33:50 -0500
Reply-To:     Jeff Palmer <icecoldvw@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jeff Palmer <icecoldvw@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: price of Wal-Mart
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Since when is Costco unionized?  Wasn't when i worked there.  Good salaries
and benefits though.  I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be paying those salaries
if they didn't have to, to keep the unions out.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gnarlodious" <gnarlodious@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: price of Wal-Mart


> Entity Stan Wilder spoke thus:
>
> > Course there are giant Costco and a few others that are eliminating our
> > freedom of choice.
> It's not really fair to group Costco with Wal-Mart/Sam's Club/Walgreen.
> Costco is unionized and at least carries a few American made products.
Their
> worker benefits are socially conscious in contrast to Wal-Mart, who pass
off
> welfare obligations to the community they gleefully suck the life out of.
>
> --Gnarlie
> Woolsey-Swanson Rule:
> People would rather live with a problem they cannot solve
> than accept a solution they cannot understand.
>
>