Killing The Goose


How much do you want to bet that, regardless of what else happens to the company and/or the multitude of Hostess brands, the executives of the company will walk away with a pile of money?

It happened some time ago. They took the money and run, leaving the line workers and the union to blame. I think they were reading the Willard Playbook for corporate management.

"Corporations are people, my friend!" -- Mitt Romney
 
Who gives a fuck, you drug addled old fool. The union no-work rules destroyed the company. Anyone who has dealt with a union knows about the no-work rules. A truck driver must stand idle while a twinky loader loads the twinkies. Then the twinky loader stands idle as the ho-ho loader puts those in a separate truck, because the twinky driver can't take ho-hos even though they go to the same store - and on it goes.

You are so full of shit. Tell your nonsense to someone that never worked in a grocery store. Everything about your post is a bald faced lie. Go fuck yourself liar.

Nope, what I said is 100% true, and ANYONE who has dealt with a union knows it. No work rules are designed to force companies to hire more workers than needed.

Oh, how is Albertsons doing, Rev. Jim? How did the clerks union help?

{ Supermarket operator Supervalu’s share price plunged Thursday, a day after the company suspended its dividend, reported dismal first-quarter results and said it would review strategic alternatives. Supervalu, which owns Albertsons, Jewel-Osco and Save-A-Lot, fell to $2.61, then recovered to $2.69 by day’s end, a 49 percent drop.

The stock’s previous all-time low was $4.05, reached on June 11.

The company, which last month announced layoffs in Albertsons in California and Nevada, plans to accelerate price reductions and cut costs by an additional $250 million over the next two years It has retained Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Greenhill & Co. to review its options.

Supervalu, which is still in debt from its $12 billion purchase of Boise’s Albertsons Inc. chain in 2006, “could become the next casualty in the troubled supermarket space, as its fundamentals have finally begun to show real signs of distress after years of steady underperformance,” Edward Kelly, an analyst at Credit Suisse AG in New York, said Thursday in a note to investors. “Supervalu fundamentals may be beyond repair at this point.” }

Albertsons owner Supervalu's survival questioned; shares sink to all-time low | Idaho Economy | Idahostatesman.com

The unions killing Hostess will be small compared to Albertsons going down, which they will, soon. Three have closed by me, recently.

Save-A-Lot stores are crap. No one will go there if there's a Giant Eagle or Acme around. Giant Eagle is union, btw.
 
You are so full of shit. Tell your nonsense to someone that never worked in a grocery store. Everything about your post is a bald faced lie. Go fuck yourself liar.

Nope, what I said is 100% true, and ANYONE who has dealt with a union knows it. No work rules are designed to force companies to hire more workers than needed.

Oh, how is Albertsons doing, Rev. Jim? How did the clerks union help?

{ Supermarket operator Supervalu’s share price plunged Thursday, a day after the company suspended its dividend, reported dismal first-quarter results and said it would review strategic alternatives. Supervalu, which owns Albertsons, Jewel-Osco and Save-A-Lot, fell to $2.61, then recovered to $2.69 by day’s end, a 49 percent drop.

The stock’s previous all-time low was $4.05, reached on June 11.

The company, which last month announced layoffs in Albertsons in California and Nevada, plans to accelerate price reductions and cut costs by an additional $250 million over the next two years It has retained Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Greenhill & Co. to review its options.

Supervalu, which is still in debt from its $12 billion purchase of Boise’s Albertsons Inc. chain in 2006, “could become the next casualty in the troubled supermarket space, as its fundamentals have finally begun to show real signs of distress after years of steady underperformance,” Edward Kelly, an analyst at Credit Suisse AG in New York, said Thursday in a note to investors. “Supervalu fundamentals may be beyond repair at this point.” }

Albertsons owner Supervalu's survival questioned; shares sink to all-time low | Idaho Economy | Idahostatesman.com

The unions killing Hostess will be small compared to Albertsons going down, which they will, soon. Three have closed by me, recently.

Save-A-Lot stores are crap. No one will go there if there's a Giant Eagle or Acme around. Giant Eagle is union, btw.

in my town the welfare receipients flock there on "pay day"
 
Twinkies and all sugar packed foods are dying because America is waking up to the fact that sugar kills you. Twinkies is not the first and won't be the last. America is changing and becoming more educated.
P.S. If it weren't for unions we'd be doing the jobs that the 3rd world people are doing for 30 cents an hour.

Actually, Little Debbie's sales were UP last year!
 
Do the Twinkie workers belong to a different union than Coca-Cola workers?

Surely the Hostess truck drivers belong to the same Teamsters organization as Coke and Pepsi truck drivers.

Methinks there is more to the story than just union problems...

Hostess drivers & bakers belong to different unions: Teamsters and Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, respectively.

As I recall, Coca-Cola is AFL-CIO, Pepsi is Teamsters.
 
You are so full of shit. Tell your nonsense to someone that never worked in a grocery store. Everything about your post is a bald faced lie. Go fuck yourself liar.

Nope, what I said is 100% true, and ANYONE who has dealt with a union knows it. No work rules are designed to force companies to hire more workers than needed.

Oh, how is Albertsons doing, Rev. Jim? How did the clerks union help?

{ Supermarket operator Supervalu’s share price plunged Thursday, a day after the company suspended its dividend, reported dismal first-quarter results and said it would review strategic alternatives. Supervalu, which owns Albertsons, Jewel-Osco and Save-A-Lot, fell to $2.61, then recovered to $2.69 by day’s end, a 49 percent drop.

The stock’s previous all-time low was $4.05, reached on June 11.

The company, which last month announced layoffs in Albertsons in California and Nevada, plans to accelerate price reductions and cut costs by an additional $250 million over the next two years It has retained Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Greenhill & Co. to review its options.

Supervalu, which is still in debt from its $12 billion purchase of Boise’s Albertsons Inc. chain in 2006, “could become the next casualty in the troubled supermarket space, as its fundamentals have finally begun to show real signs of distress after years of steady underperformance,” Edward Kelly, an analyst at Credit Suisse AG in New York, said Thursday in a note to investors. “Supervalu fundamentals may be beyond repair at this point.” }

Albertsons owner Supervalu's survival questioned; shares sink to all-time low | Idaho Economy | Idahostatesman.com

The unions killing Hostess will be small compared to Albertsons going down, which they will, soon. Three have closed by me, recently.

Save-A-Lot stores are crap. No one will go there if there's a Giant Eagle or Acme around. Giant Eagle is union, btw.

Bull. I delivered to a Save-A-Lot last week...they are doing a booming business. There are two other supermarkets, an Aldi's, and a Super Wal-Mart 5 minutes away. If anything, the bad economy seems to have people switching from the other places to Save-A-Lot.
 
The only thing missing from this story is the proof of an Obama/ Holder cover-up.

Maybe Obama will bail out Hostess, use taxpayer money to buy it for the Union, like he did with GM?

Sure, a Twinkies will cost $40 each, but you can rest assured that a Union worker is donating to the democratic party...

No problemo. They'll use the Chevy Volt model and offer each Twinkie buyer a $7.00 rebate, assuming they've got a good enough credit score of course.
 
Save-A-Lot stores are crap.

Who cares?

Albertsons is the largest grocery store chain in the USA.

No one will go there if there's a Giant Eagle or Acme around. Giant Eagle is union, btw.

My prediction is that in 10 years, the ONLY union food outlet will be Costco. Target, Walmart, Winco and Sam's Club will drive the rest into bankruptcy.
 
Stop & Shop, Shaw's/Star, and I think Market Basket are all union. Only non-union grocers in this area are Hannaford's, Donelan's, Wal-Mart, and a few independents.
 
Twinkies and all sugar packed foods are dying because America is waking up to the fact that sugar kills you. Twinkies is not the first and won't be the last. America is changing and becoming more educated.
P.S. If it weren't for unions we'd be doing the jobs that the 3rd world people are doing for 30 cents an hour.

Sugar is fine. High fructose corn syrup is the killer.
 

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