Enjoy shopping in your local community this holiday season.
Shopping for the holiday season is in full swing and one Silver Spring business owner says residents should buy local. “When you think about going to the mall, think about the small merchant in your neighborhood who does not have the big advertising budget like the big boys or the big strategist etc, etc. But think about the mom and pop,” Bahia Akerele, owner of On The Purple Couch, said. The shop is located at 955 Bonifant St. in Silver Spring. Akerele adds she hasn’t worked this hard in her life, but is glad to be working toward the American dream. Read more: Shopping Local~ Silver Spring and Beyond. Join Patch’s Local Voices! We want to provide a platform for your message. To learn more email Tamika Smith, the Community Manager in …
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Employees of the retail giant hope to take advantage of one of the year's busiest shopping days.
Employees of DC-area Walmart and Sam's Club locations are joining a national strike effort this Black Friday to protest what they view as low wages, poor scheduling practices, and worker intimidation on the part of the retail giant. The campaign, organized by Making Change at Walmart and linked with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, is planning demonstrations outside dozens of stores nationwide on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. In the DC area, Nov. 23 protests are scheduled for Walmart and Sam's Club locations in Laurel, Hyattsville, Bowie, Gaithersburg, Woodlawn, Severn, Clinton, Abingdon, Alexandria, and Fairfax. (Both chains are owned by parent company Walmart Stores, Inc.) The strike action …
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11:31 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012
US management approach + US union approach sucks the life from business. Toyota and Hyundai -very successful, massively profitable companies- are both very heavily unionized. They aren't having the life sucked out of them by unions. They ate the US OEM's lunch for almost 30 years... with much better process control, and union workers. The too-early move into robotics was (yet another) knee-jerk … more ›