The Effects of the supermarket strike in CA
So I went to the grocery store to pick up some ice-cream when I noticed that the VONS is almost entirely empty & the aisles are almost bare. I was thinking that perhaps they were going to do construction on the market so I asked the guy at the checkout. He told me that ever since they had the strike, business at that location has been less than stellar. Now the store is going to close down effective tomorrow at 6 pm.
I wasn't really surprised to hear this b/c I knew that sooner or later, there would be some sort of consequences for the workers at the stores that went on strike here in CA. However, my sympathy for them is limited b/c I had run-ins with many over-zealous grocery workers. I pulled into the parking lot once b/c Carls Jr. is on the same lot & they swarmed my car & were beating my windows & doors. I couldn't even explain that I wanted to eat Carls Jr. At another location, my very pregnant sister & I were going to go to pay her bills b/c the bill paying location is inside the market. The strikers called us names & one even had the gall to tell my sister that her & her baby were going to be sorry for crossing the picket line. I was supremely pissed at them so I truly don't feel much sympathy for them losing their jobs. Normally I would but many of us got hassled & harassed by these people during the strike that we just refused to go back to patronize their shops thus starting the closure of this store.
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