Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of March, 2015: Many food suppliers/distributors are consolidating operations and killing jobs due to the collapsing grocery store and restaurant industries, as well as rising costs of food production.
Netherlands based grocery store chain Ahold announced it will shutdown support offices in Massachusetts […] Continue Reading…
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“…these are brands that I like 30 plus years ago and I like them today, and I think I like them 30 years from now.”-Warren Buffett, after merging his Heinz with Kraft and then announcing $1-billion USD in job cuts
Yes, […] Continue Reading…
In 2014 there was word that a vacant Michigan Kmart would be replaced with a World of Beer store, not no more.
The News Herald reports that World of Beer has changed its mind about moving into the Woodhaven Kmart. Local city administrators assume that World of Beer and the property owner couldn’t agree on […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
An east coast health insurance company is killing jobs, no thanks to Obama Care. Highmark laid off almost 1-hundred people in Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia! Administrators admit that since Obama Care went into effect they’ve actually lost customers, so much so that they have to make drastic cuts! […] Continue Reading…
In Longmont, Colorado, plans were unveiled for a Kmart property that’s been vacant for the past five years (before I started this shutdown list). It sounds ‘racist’ to me but local city and retail administrators are calling it 11 acres of “Latino Marketplace”. Plaza Medina will be the new name and will offer retail and […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: Once again Boeing issued several WARNs, this time at least 94 people will be laid off by the end of April. Due to the hostile take over by Cerberus Albertsons, Safeway issued several more WARNs saying at least 132 people will lose their jobs in Pleasanton […] Continue Reading…
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Only one city council seems concerned with the shutdown of east Idaho’s only mail sorting and processing center; Pocatello. This is despite the fact the closure will affect all of eastern Idaho!
What’s worse it seems that even the residents of […] Continue Reading…
16 March 2015 (08:22 UTC-07 Tango 01)/25 Jumada I-Ula 1436/25 Esfand 1393/26 Ji Mao 4713
“I thought it was just a rumor.”
“They’ll just move the work to Clark Street Post Office.”
“There’s a Postal Processing Center here?”
These are most common responses I got from talking to fellow east Idahoans. 18 April 2015 is the last […] Continue Reading…
14 March 2015 (16:28 UTC-07 Tango 01)/23 Jumada I-Ula 1436/23 Esfand 1393/24 Ji Mao 4713
“The United States Postal Service is a wonderful national treasure, enshrined in the Constitution and supported by the American people. Without any taxpayer funding, the USPS serves 150 million households and businesses each day, providing affordable, universal mail service to […] Continue Reading…
In Tennessee, a woman was caught trying to walk out of a Kingsport Kmart with an entire jewelry countertop display case. Police say it had $9-thousand USD worth of earrings in it. Store employees say the woman was so brash that she openly cut a security cable with wire cutters before putting the display case […] Continue Reading…