Comments on: Is Corporate America Really this Suicidal?

By: maddog

maddog — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:27:51 +0000

I’m not surpised about Whole Foods and don’t go there any way. What do you expect from a place that has Mother Jones on the magazine rack by checkout rather in the cat litter aisle.

As far as Fourbucks goes, too pricey any way. They are over saturated and expanded too much. Now they are paying the price for those mistakes.

Costoco is a suprise, but given what others posters wrote, maybe not. Glad I’m a Sam’s Club member. In fact, we plan to go today.

By: maddog

maddog — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:27:18 +0000

I’m not surpised about Whole Foods and don’t go there any way., What do you expect from a place that has Mother Jones on the magainze rack by checkout rather in the cat litter aisle.

As far as Fourbucks goes, too pricey any way. They are over saturated and expanded too much. Now they are paying the price for those mistakes.

Costoco is a suprise, but given what others posters wrote, maybe not. Glad I’m a Sam’s Club member. In fact, we plan to go today.

By: ccrobbins

ccrobbins — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:03:57 +0000

If Costco, Starbucks and Wholefoods decide to capitulate to union coercion, we the people need to find somewhere else to shop. This may occur naturally due to increased prices inherent in unionization. As the saying goes, “Vote with your pocketbook and your feet”!
You know what happens when the camel gets it nose in the door of the tent.

By: Praying

Praying — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:54:35 +0000

Liberals favor Starbucks and conservatives choose McDonalds. Actually McDonald’s coffee IS pretty good – some of the cafe coffees – but I’m a Dunkin Donuts girl now…

By: GregInFla

GregInFla — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:53:25 +0000

Come up with the most restrictive, fascist proposal, get it supported by “top people?, and then claim that “compromise” is how things get done in USA. And then you get what you wanted in the beginning.

QED

By: IJB

IJB — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:18:32 +0000

I know Costco is – I think virtually all of the campaign contributions that come out of Costco go to the Dems, and have for years.

I’d be nearly certain the same is true of Whole Foods. And I’d expect it to also be true about Starbucks.

IOW, these are just the usual Dem constituencies saying the usual things.
Nothing to see here.

By: momac

momac — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:01:25 +0000

And still people say, “but business even supports this” as though any business wants more competition. They want a playing field that is best suited to their game.

It’s like when Walmart supported requiring more health coverage, well of course– they can afford it and it keeps competitors even farther back in the pack.

I don’t know where this entire line of thought comes from, but this isn’t suicidal, it is exactly what they’d want, basically they believe they are better suited to the legislation than their competitors.

By: Kowalski

Kowalski — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:33:55 +0000

Also very easy once you make the main object.

By: Kowalski

Kowalski — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:32:13 +0000

It’s a box with rounded corners filled with a gradient and a dotted border, with the text in the center. Anyone with CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator could do it in 5 minutes or less. I liked it because it’s simple.

BTW If you’d like to use a nice graphics program without stealing one, that still has a lot of impressive capabilities, head on over to eBay and get yourself a copy of Corel. Or download the trial version from their website. You don’t need to spend a tremendous amount of money to get good results.

By: dittohead1

dittohead1 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:24:39 +0000

How did you make that great Ditto sign? Very impressive!

By: Ed54

Ed54 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:17:54 +0000

Then Lichtenstein is a major country.

Besides, wouldn’t it be obvious that the managers of Whole Foods would have an ideological bias?

By: civil_truth

civil_truth — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:16:51 +0000

I mean, this is what so many of them have been railing about for years, how big business is running government – and now we see the emergence of a three-way partnership between big business, big labor, and government to crush the competition – so these guys will have to live under the dystopias they have been warning about that their guys are ushering in.

But we’ve been seeing the crony capitalism on the rise in the U.S. – indeed in various forms this is become a dominant model in the world: China, Russia, Japan and East Asia, along various third-world countries.

By: DerKrieger

DerKrieger — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:05:51 +0000

Go into almost any gas station today and they have self-serve cappuccino machines. The highest prices I’ve seen for 20 oz is ~ $1.40 a cup. IMO it tastes better than Starbucks.

By: Kowalski

Kowalski — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:31:27 +0000

I’d love to see someone invent a really good machine that can replicate most of the stuff that Starbucks serves so that it can be installed relatively inexpensively at all kinds of stores around the country. It’s not that hard. Anyone who has ever had a Starbucks in a big city knows that the quality is strictly dependent on the time of day and the mood of the theater school student / unpublished author / amateur porn star who is running the machine.

By: Kowalski

Kowalski — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:21:43 +0000

They’ll just hire Pega and replace all those people with computers, anyway.

Who needs people at Whole Foods? Really, all you need is an online catalog and a few good robots. Same thing with Starbucks: let them unionize.

They’ll have to raise the prices of their coffee beyond frappe levels and someone will make a mint producing a “Starbucks Machine” that does the whole job with 1/3rd the people. All the rest of the pierced and tattooed Starbucks employees will wind up doing something productive, like joining a rock band. CostCo? It’s just begging for conveyor belts.

The customer experience at CostCo is nothing that great that it can’t be replaced with robots and computers anyway.

By: JoeG

JoeG — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:03:00 +0000

They are all already union so they support other companies becoming union.

By: mikefisk

mikefisk — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:36:57 +0000

…card check would be the best thing to happen to already-unionized firms. It would kneecap their non-union competition, who can outmaneuver them on the basis of lowered costs due to labor.

If anything, this compromise is because these three specifically WANT their competition unionized by force.

By: Common_Cents

Common_Cents — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:07:55 +0000

When our gubmint should did targeted tax increases on a specific group for a specific reason w/out batting an eye, I would have a hard time standing up to them for any reason.

Until a revolution happens most people, including CEO’s will probably think the best course of action is staying OFF the radar as much as possible.