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It's a piece of speculation on HN, not fact.
by CaptainFever 3y ago
It's a piece of speculation on HN, not fact.
- throwanem 3y agoI would credit it much less if it corresponded less well with my observations over more than 20 years shopping weekly at grocery stores, mostly Giant and its predecessors, in Maryland. My current local grocery store has been my local grocery store for most of those 20-plus years. I remember when it was still a Super Fresh. It was a better place to shop then, and had about twice the current staff, despite at that time being quite a bit smaller. That Giant has hollowed out the workforce is not in question. The question has been why; I didn't know grocery workers here were unionized, but if the union here is as effective as the one I hoped to join in my own high-school summer job days bagging groceries, then this frankly makes a lot of sense as a reason.