Report from WNBZ radio here.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise story here.
Plattsburgh Press Republican story here.
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Take Wal-Mart, the most famously offensive, town-destroying, junk-purveying, labor-abusing, sweatshop-supporting, American-job-killing, soul-numbing, hope-curdling retailer in the known universe, moving upward of $300 billion in cheap mass-produced slurm every year via more than 5,000 landscape-mauling eyesore stores stretching all the way from Texas to China and Argentina and South Korea and Mexico and your backyard. Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle
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From ADE coverage -
"The store generally has six employees: a manager, who makes $40,000 annually with benefits and commission from sales; and five clerks, who make about $6.50 to $7 per hour with no benefits."
WOW! It's is on a par (or below that of Wal-Mart) as far as wages and benefits. Great! How many low wage employees with no benefits will the Saranac Lake store employ? What's the point of your recent rants and raves against Wal-Mart's low wages and lack of benefits?
P.S. I seriously doub't you will post this!
The BIG DIFFERENCE here is that for every job Wal-Mart provides in the community TWO ARE LOST.
In Vermont they did an ACT 250 study. What they discovered is that for every dollar Wal-Mart generated, $2.50 WAS LOST. Wal-Mart costs EVERYBODY.
A community department store GIVES BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. WAL-MART DRAINS THE COMMUNITY. Note the difference!!
Don't believe me. Read it for yourself. "The Case Against Wal-Mart" by Al Norman will give you plenty of facts as will his web site Sprawl-busters.com
Try to think a little more clearly. What the Powell Merc pays it's employees has nothing to do with what a Saranac Lake community store should pay. If you were actually at the meeting you would have heard the other speakers point out that employees should be paid a living wage.
Yeah, the Saranac Lake Store may even pay less than the Powell Merc!
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