When I moved to New York I started shopping for my electronics at places like J&R and P.C. Richard & Son, happy to be patronizing local businesses that had been part of the city for years. Before long, though, Best Buy came along, opening a store right in Chelsea, and offering the same items at considerably lower prices. I was on a very tight budget, so even though their service was undeniably atrocious, I let the savings cloud my judgment and kept going back for more. Today I see that they're the subject of a labor union protest by District Council 9 Painters and Allied Trades, AFL-CIO, which says they hire nonunion workers so they can avoid paying fair wages. I can't say I'm surprised: I'm one of their "loyal" customers, yet they routinely treat me like garbage. So I am posting this in the hope that I will (finally) remember this the next time I go shopping -- and never set foot in there again.
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They recently demonstrated outside of Panera Bread and Molloy college here on Long Island. That rat gets around.
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