Cash & Carry Stores (34) to close in Orlando area - over 1000 emps

[guajira]

out of work! The company will be expanding in Tampa area.

Hope these Orlando employees understand how important it is to vote the smirk out of office!!

[camero]

1. They'll probably move here

As if this area isn't densely populated enough. That's it. Move all the people into urban areas. Then complain that the world is overpopulated. Soylent Green anyone?

[SoCalDem]

2. Closing 34 stores seems a bit ...extreme

Is there a labor dispute going on?? I doubt that they will be building/opening 34 in Tampa.... This sound like a classic "in your face" gesture to their workers..

The sad story behind the story, is that employers want to pay $3.00 an hour (like the good old days), and they do not want to provide benefits at ANY wage.. They want the money for themselves..

I find it eternally "odd" that they do not think one step further.. If most people make barely enough money to pay their rent, HOW will they be able to buy the products that employers are trying to sell??

Rich people can't but it all....and truth told, rich people don't but that much more than the rest of us.. they get lots of stuff "comped" or "discounted"..:(

[Red State Rebel]

3. Doesn't sound right - thats over 300 employees per store!

[Ganja Ninja]

4. I work for a company that does a lot of construction...

for Kash N’ Karry. A lot of the stores they will be closing are old Food Lion stores that they took over. They are too small to compete with the more up scale chains like Publix and Albertson’s. Wal-Mart is also taking a bite out of the grocery market in Florida. All the grocery chains are building bigger and bigger stores because that’s what is pulling in the customers. Kash N’ Karry will be building and renovating a number of stores this year and we are already talking to them about some of the projects. The net effect will be a loss of around 1500 employees.