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Welcome to...oop...goodbye from (overtaxed) Maryland. Chalk another up business leaving the "Free State" so it can stay alive...
Protest at Giant Food in Waldorf on 4/10/2011
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Welcome to...oop...goodbye from (overtaxed) Maryland. Chalk another up business leaving the "Free State" so it can stay alive...
theHypocrite
taking chances
why should we be upset at Giant for outsourcing (at least the outsourced jobs are still US jobs)
anyway, isn't this what capitalism all about ??? - profits over people !!!
isn't this what all major corporations do ???
Is th article below the type of "price gun" you are referring to? I think I would like that idea... (though I would imagine the potential for shop lifting could significantly increase..) Tracking the cost and bagging as I am shopping... no more long lines waiting to checkout...
This article is from a few years ago, so has anyone heard anything lately about how this concept is working??
Wait in self-check line? That’s so last month - Business - U.S. business - msnbc.com
"...She uses a personal scanner offered by the Bloom grocery store near her home, scanning each item as she takes it off the shelf and bagging as she shops. When she’s done, she pays at a terminal at the front of the store.
“When I come up to the checkout, everything’s already bagged, I go to my car, I’m done. No waiting in line,” she said at the suburban store between Washington and Baltimore..."
it works very well if you have the patience to learn how to use it. You bag your items as you shop, scan your coupons as you shop, see the price, see your totals in advance, then check yourself out. You know how much you spend as you go. You have to be a registered shopper and must use the bonus card system to access the scanner.
BushwoodGirl
Member
That was my first thought.
They have it at the Giant in Lusby - pretty cool.
Lurk
Happy Creepy Ass Cracka
I believe Giantone is a union spokesperson. Please excuse him if there's no logic in that interaction.
FromTexas
This Space for Rent
There were guys in Teamster shirts and jackets outside Giant down here when I went earlier. Poor unions... rather the businesses spend more and not survive than implement modern logistic operations. Also, those unions helped elect our phenomenal, business friendly Maryland government.
RPMDAD
Well-Known Member
Yep showing my age even more so, remember full service gas stations. Remember in High school in 1968 working at a gas station for several years part time , in winter and summereven learned a lot about working on the cars back then, a lot of gas stations also did mechanical work and tires and batteries. Many of my high school friends worked there and at other gas stations, all those jobs are now gone also. Remember gas was outrageously high 34 cents a gallon, owner way overpaid us also, minimum wage a whole $1.60 per hour. I personally love $3.64 a gallon gas, pump your own, no jobs at all for kids these days other than fast food crap. But it is called progress.
bcp
In My Opinion
I wish more companies would shift their taxable revenue out of the state too.
Giant is doing us and all other companies in the state a huge favor.
Wake up Omalley, you are running the jobs right out of the state with your ignorance.
I try to buy non Maryland whenever possible just to cut them out of any revenue I can.. (not like my purchasing power is even going to make a blip on the radar,, but it makes me feel better)
Giant is doing us and all other companies in the state a huge favor.
Wake up Omalley, you are running the jobs right out of the state with your ignorance.
I try to buy non Maryland whenever possible just to cut them out of any revenue I can.. (not like my purchasing power is even going to make a blip on the radar,, but it makes me feel better)
BushwoodGirl
Member
Oh, I have concerns about all of our technological "progress" and the impact that it does (or could) have on society. Of course, I would rather go back to the "good old days" and sit in my car and have a conversation with the attendant while getting my oil checked and my windshield cleaned... But of course now that would depend on how long I would have to wait in line for those services and at what additional cost.
I do miss the personal interaction that a lot of technology and big business takes away.. and have concerns that with more and more "machine" interaction that people will forget (or never learn) how to be personable..
And I do have sympathy for people that may lose their jobs when the new technology is implemented... but I will still use the new technology
Hopefully different jobs will become available for those losing theirs. I grew up on a tobacco farm and my dad hired students in the summer to help with the crops.. but he got out of it (before the buyout). I am assuming the kids who would have worked in the tobacco fields during the summer found other work.. (lucky for them... that was a dirty hot job and I complained because I had to help in the house and couldn't do more work in the fields... ) My point being that the local industry is constantly changing and along with that the type of jobs that are available changes also.. for the better (that i don't know)
bcp
In My Opinion
That might actually be a good thing
bcp
In My Opinion
I already buy my beer in VA. We either buy it when my wife goes to vist her sister or her sister brings it to us when she comes. If I run out I will go without before I buy in MD.
My next investment for the truck is a 100 gallon fuel tank for the bed, I can then use it to fill the car and the truck and make a trip to VA or Delaware to fill it twice a month.
I plan to stop spending anything I dont have to spend in the state.
Pisses me off when I read about someone like a teacher losing their job because of budget problems, then I see that the illegals (new americans) are costing the state over 1 billion a year in services.
agree 1000%........
RPMDAD
Well-Known Member
Respect you for that aps, regretfully i am a sissy boy, cut back on smoking and the few times i am in Va. buy them there, still buy them in Md. more often than i would like.
They can't be any worse than our current overlords.
Giant is owned by Royal Dutch Ahold............