What stores have unions and are still reasonably priced?

[Dark]

In other words, what department stores respect their workers with decent pay, good benefits, and still have reasonable prices?

[Salviati]

1. Costco for one

I'm not sure if it is unionized or not (does someone else know?), but regardless it does pay it's workers well, and also donates overwhelmingly to the democrats. (Although to tell the truth, I'm almost happier to look up a business and see no political donations at all, but if they do, it's better to give dem...)

[On the Road]

2. Among Grocery Stores,

Shopper's Food Warehouse is unionized and reasonably priced. Good store -- I don't know if they're in your area.

[Sanity Claws]

3. Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Nordstrom

Not sure whether these stores meet your definition of "reasonably priced"

[last_texas_dem]

4. Grocery stores

Despite being major Re:puke: donors, I've heard (from workers, haven't checked out the stats myself) that Kroger (a mostly southern/mid-Western chain) has a very strong union. I consider their prices to be decent, though they aren't as cheap as some.

Sucks there are no Costcos where I live; all we have anymore are Wal-Mart (which I avoid altogether) and lesser-of-two-evils Target.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

6. Kroger is Union

I think that most of the large grocery chains are unionzed -- that's why the Wal-Mart SuperCenters pose such a threat.

[primavera]

5. Depends upon what you consider "reasonable"

As a percentage of their overall income, Americans pay far less (about 10%) to feed themselves than do nationals of any other country on earth. The second cheapest country on earth is France, whose nationals pay about 20% of their income to feed thmselves. Everybody else goes up from there. So, depending upon your point of view, our cheapie stores are "unreasonably" priced, and the true price we pay for that are unfavorable trade balances, outsourcing of jobs, massive employment of undocumented migrant workers, and serial union busters, all to keep wages low, so that prices can remain... what was the term? Oh yes, "reasonable."

[idlisambar]

7. Americans pay less, but not that much less

Unless there have been drastic changes since 1993, according to the U.S. department of agriculture Americans pay about 8.7% of their total consumption on food with Canada at 10.5%, the U.K. at 11.9% (France comes in at 15.5% -- slightly below average for high income countries). Certainly these numbers have shifted since. but not that much.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/foodreview/sep1996/sept96h.pdf