Simple. Service and product. When it comes to grocery stores, going to a place with rude workers and shitty produce will not get you profits. PW could have made the push to have the best staff and best fresh food in town, thus justifying higher prices on some goods to pay for those workers. They instead chose to go out of business.
It it the union battle cry and an assumption on your part that the mere presence of a union creates a better workforce.
The union has no say over the quality of the produce or for that matter anything else in the store. So that argument doesn't wash.
The "push" as you say cannot work simply because the typical consumer is going to compare prices first. And unless the other stores are selling inferior products( the food companies will not permit this) the typical shopper is going to buy at the lowest price.
Ask yourself...Am I going to spend $3.79 for a dozen farm fresh eggs from Piggly Wiggly or go to Walmart and buy the identical eggs from the same farm for $2.79 per dozen?....Please. Unless you are gung ho union and have more money than brains, you'll be headed to Walmart. And in many cases, the union members spouse shops at Walmart or one of many other discounters.
Wow. You made a whole lot of assumptions on things I never said. For the record, and anyone can read and see this, you asked how PW could be competitive. I answered. If you want to make things up and argue with those fabrications, well, you don't need me for that.
As to your question about the dozen eggs, I think you clearly live in a small town with no choice. In L.A., I will absolutely pay more for eggs if the parking is easier, store is cleaner, check out is quicker and workers are friendlier.
You guys need to stop thinking that price is the ONLY thing that matters to consumers.
