Yeah, retail is a big category. The BLS doesn't track for just supermarkets. For density in supermarkets by region you have to ask folks at individual ufcw locals. The director at the comparatively awesome ufcw supermarket local in minnesota estimated 80% in their region off the cuff. But in Indiana for instance it's much lower. In Western pennsylvania it's so high (steelers don't shop scab!) that there was a bitter protracted kroger strike there in the 80s that resulted in kroger walking away from the region entirely.
I think that singling out retailers like Whole Foods has more to do with
> blue collar anti-intellectualism (your use of vernacular seems
> symptomatic)
> and silly resentment and kulturkampf against "yuppies" than any serious
> effort to advance the cause of labor in this country.
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> Wojtek
Ha ha ha! Are you seriously saying this?
It's true I find yuppie intellectuals as distasteful as the fancy cheese they overpay for at fancy scab grocery stores. But I believe my "blue-collar anti-intellectualism" is actually part and parcel of "any serious effort to advance the cause of labor in this country." wink chuckle ; ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20060828/41f9b649/attachment.htm>