Jobs at PriceRite

Price Rite plans to open a seond Buffalo market at the old Vix location on Kenmore Ave.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry that the opening of a supermarket is worthy of the Mayor's Office's attention

oh please, these will be part-time minimum wage jobs.

Part-time minimum wage jobs > No job

LOL, Like Byron had a damn thing to do with this, what a friggin idiot. Suppose he will lug the podium there for the grand opening and spout off yet more hot air. But, if he's happy that his [ or so he believes in his simple little mind] administration brought in a discount supermarket that will not last long do to the fact that it will become food stamp/bottle drop off central, so be it. Anyway, thanks for the afternoon laugh.

Getting supermarkets to locate in cities is no small feat.
And while it won't make a huge economic impact, it will fill a need.
Still, this place should be paying better wages than $8/hour. Is that a mistake?

Also, they need to loose the "An American Company" tag.

The dollar store of grocery chains opening shouldnt be newsworthy. Boy that mayor likes to get credit for everything.

Byron is Ghetto Fabulous...maybe some of the Section 8 residents across the street will actually start to work...Naaah probably not...the government welfare is just too sweeeeet!

Having businesses open in two currently empty, large, locations is good news, and newsworthy when there is so little business development occurring. This is more the real economy than the silver bullet dream projects some posters seem to limit their interest to.

we should be happy that there are jobs being added to the buffalo area. seriously. times are tough! My only worry is that it may hurt Elmwood Market which is my favorite place in that area.

ok....if byron brown spent his time bringing in a discount supermarket into a pretty strong part of the city. then we need to vote him out.

if byron brown thinks he had anything to do with making this deal happen or getting this supermarket to look at and open up in buffalo, then he might be high on crack. and we need to vote him out.

he is however responsible for the Motel 8 opening up on our waterfront. which should get him voted out of office.

please god...stop allowing such tools to get elected in wny.
what have we done to deserve such punishment?

What we really need is a Whole Foods Market in Buffalo.

make it a dollar foods store...this way the section 8ers can buy weed instead of groceries

Wegman's was rated the best grocery store in the country. Ahead of Trader Joe's and Whole Foods. They are just harder to get in urban areas. There is only one in the actual city limits (Amherst Street). I bet if this thing was a Wegman's, people would be all about it.

BuffBuff,

The ratings thing came from Consumer Reports. They rated 54 large grocery stores, all accross the country on a variety of factors. Trader Joes was 2nd and Whole Foods 3rd. Wegman's has a pretty big service area now too, there are stores in PA and NJ as well. It isn't like they are only in Buffalo and Rochester Still.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/money/shopping/where-to-buy/supermarkets-10-06/overview/1006_supermarkets_ov1.htm

There is the link to the article. I am not sure you can view the entire thing unless you are signed in though.

BRO: can we have a standing issues section? The Trader Joes/Whole Foods thing comes up frequently with few new points. It would save posters and readers time if new posters could just be directed to an archive of comments on the topic.

Secondly,

Wegman's won an award from the Food Network in 2007 as the best grocery store in the country. Over Trader Joe's and Wegman's

https://www.wegmans.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/PressReleaseDetailView?langId=-1&storeId=10052&catalogId=10002&productId=399613

Also, how can you call a store with 79 locations in 4 states "regional"?

Then since Trader Joes isn't in Texas, Florida or most of the midwest, I guess they are a regional chain too.

unlike Wegmans, Trader Joes is expanding rapidly nationwide. As is Wholefoods.

I cannot believe that they expect people to make a difference when working for minimum wage. If a company pays the minimum then they deserve to get the minimum. We should protest against Price-RITE to demand that they pay a LIVING WAGE instead of just the minimum. I bet their greedy executives would never consider making less than the maximum that they feel they are worth, so why not extend that to their employees?

I am sure we all remember the staff and how clean Latinos was at the end, expect the same with a bunch of minimum wage employee's who don't care. I recall how excited everyone was when Latino's did open, lets see what this place is like in 2 years, IF it is still open. Plus, it's not just the staff that brought the store [Latinos] down. The customer base was pretty rank also which helps to bring down moral. BRO wrote rave stories back then about Latino's, or are our memories that short? I bet in 4/5 years your all raving about the new store opening at this location when announced.

They'll get paid what the market will allow. I was always taught to do a job to the best of my ability no matter what I was getting paid, or if I was even getting paid. If someone doesn't like their wage, then they need to work their way up to a different job, sorry life is not always fair. Take pride in what you do. I'm not defending the $7.25 wage, but its no excuse for doing a crappy job.

This neighborhood needs a store even if it is "Price Rite". The usual poor bashing and defense of paying crap wages is kind of silly considering the mess this country is in. The conservative agenda of concentrating wealth at the top has severely damaged our economy and our society. Paying a fair and decent wage while providing basic health care to all is the only way to recover and begin rebuilding the middle class. A living wage would also greatly reduce welfare dependency and the need for so many other government subsidies to the poor.

Ohh, Heather, what world do you live in? Wherever it is, Blackrocklifter must be your neighbor.

Got to love this Age of Entitlement that has swept the country. That loser Obama has really got all of you wannabe socialists all riled up. Working check-out and stocking shelves deserves minimum wage. It used to be that the beauty of this country was that you could work your way up with hard work. Now everyone expects to just be given more and more at the expense of the tax payers.

Whynot brings up a great point about teachers and then you just fall back on the unsupported "equality earns everyone more argument." Please explain further!

About working at a discount store (below management level) while keeping prices down:
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Clerking and working in stock rooms are entry-level jobs.
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Entry-level jobs mean being temporarily employed while following higher aspirations...
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Aspiring socially begans with the five most important aspirations: A formal education, a solid job, marriage, children (and homeownership although not all renters are TTs).
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Forty%/one%ers need to understand that having and practicing "aspirations" means more than breathing in then aspiring out.

The wealthy don't mind if the "poor" won't aspire.

There is so much of Buffalo living in third world conditions. Just take a trip to the City Mission on any night and you will find hundreds of men without homes who eat from dumpsters and beg for change from the rich businessmen who can barely spare a glance much less a dollar.

Capitalism is killing America by choking us off at the root of common decency and good will. The capitalist will tell you that everyone can succeed if he just tries harder, works longer hours, or gives up more of himself. The enlightened person will show him that we must cater the job and the pay to the capability and need of the person. Is it too much to ask that we allow a person to earn a living based on his ability instead of an arbitrary wage set by the greedy rich?

Heather, you're a trip.

You should spring for a few economics courses and books. Take a few econ history classes. You seem genuinely motivated. If you feel so strongly, you should study.

I don't know anything about you other than what I read from your posts, but I assume you are young. I'm guessing you're in your early to mid 20s. I'm guessing you are too young to have traveled beyond the iron curtain.

For anyone who never traveled there back in the day, the east block was poor. And polluted. The gap between east and west grew every year, markedly every decade. The economies of the west produced wealth the eastern block couldn't dream of. I went to Poland in 1982, when it was under marshal law. At the time the waiting list to get an apartment (after you were married and so could apply for your own apartment) was 20 years. Until that 20 years was up, you had to live with your folks or hers. Sorry. Not enough housing. Oh, and by the way what housing there was all had to conform. All the apartment buildings looked the same. Know why? Couldn't be unfair about it and give some people better apartments or individually differentiated apartments. No, the mentality was to constantly stress the communal, the equality of life, the greater good. So all had to be the same, more or less.

The result was an economy which didn't work. Take a look today at satellite pictures of the Korean Peninsula at night. South and North Korea were equally dirt poor sixty years ago. One half of the nation went with capitalism, the other with communal control of the economy. Pictures of the globe don't have outlines of national boundaries, but at night you don't need a map to make out the shape of North Korea. You know why? It's dark. There are no lights. No cities lit up by electricity. You know why? They're dirt poor. They can't afford to keep the lights on. To help bring in the harvest every year, the cities are emptied out of workers who are shipped to the countryside to bring in the yield. And it never yields enough.

If you fail to heed economic realities, you will build a flawed, inefficient and uncompetitive economy.

The old communist joke was: "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us." If you don't need to, then why work hard? Why try to excel? If the pay off is the same one way or another, why not take it easy?

In all of nature, carving out a life is difficult. We've got it easier than any other species, but in all of nature it is hard to put food in one's stomach, so to speak. Life is hard. For every living creature, really. Even the rich don't have an easy life. No one's life is really easy. We all have our own expectations, demons, disappointments, shortcomings and mortality with which to contend.

Life isn't easy for most creatures nor for many of us. But the poorest of the poor in Buffalo are far wealthier, from the standpoint of nutrition and shelter, educational opportunity and health care, than a quarter of world's population. The poverty within our community has more to do with an intellectual and spiritual poverty in the minds and hearts of those who do not (for whatever reasons of nature and nurture) avail themselves of the tools by which to improve their lot in life (education, avoiding addictions, willingness to work hard, etc.).

But even in the minds and hearts of the poor and the downtrodden among us, self reliance could be fortified. From the exercise of habits which will lead to self sufficiency, self respect will surely follow. Recipients of largess ought be expected to pull their weight to the greatest degree possible. Those at the City Mission should have to work three or four hours a day for the community's benefit in exchange for the privileges of food and shelter. Have them shovel sidewalks, clean streets and parks, erase graffiti, plant flowers and trees, harvest crops. Work them in crews. Everybody should have to try to support themselves. As the old saying goes: "The world does not owe you a living. It owes you the right to earn a living."

Can someone live on minimum wage? Yes. Is it easy? No. If you want an easier life, you must aspire to a higher rung on the economic food chain. Not every job is worth more.

Now, on the other side of the argument, the average American is held hostage to a growing degree by the lower cost of production outside US shores. Whether the product is film animation, computer engineering, steel production, auto production, etc. etc., we are all threatened by outsourcing.

Our economy can no longer afford to lift the rest of the world out of poverty through our profligate consumerism. We cannot afford to continue to purchase more than we produce, year in and year out. We have a negative balance of trade by which we feed the economies of China, India, Japan and Germany, et.al., but we have to borrow the money to do it. So we take out home equity loans and our national debt spikes ever skyward. And we borrow the money from Japan and the Mid East and China because they're the only ones with cash.

I have a solution to that. A simple market mechanism to balance trade. But another time. It takes a while to explain. It's not my own idea, but it's a winner. If we balance trade, then we can better afford to rearrange the terms of economic compensation within our own borders.

Capitalism requires checks and balances. We have many features of a socialist economy (police and fire protection, public education, the military, anti slavery laws, child work laws, workplace safety laws, etc., etc.), and should have some more, frankly, like universal health care. But inflating wages to unsustainable levels is not the way to benefit society. It's not so much the greedy rich who are the problem. It's those poor people in other nations who keep taking our jobs for cheap.

Should the wealthy contribute more than others? Absolutely. Has the equation unfairly favored the richest since Ronald Reagan? Yes, and it should be retrenched. The market place doesn't decide perfect wages. The sports celebrity or teen rehab vixen doesn't deserve to be rewarded economically hundreds of times more than the research scientist. The market place is a crude device. Some undeserving make a lot of money. Some deserving make too little.

The rich are able to amass wealth in our society only because of the social stability which our framework of laws creates. Those fortunes are dependent upon the sacrifices and social agreements all of us are compelled to yield. Is a soldier's value to be pegged only at his rate of pay? Don't we all benefit from the efforts of others? The marketplace is a crude instrument. It overcompensates some and under-compensates others. The Beatles were taxed at a 95% rate ("that's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the tax man"). They still became billionaires. We could tax the rich more and we should. They become rich not simply because of their vision, ingenuity, entrepreneurial acumen and personal effort, but also because the environment society creates through its laws and the willingness of many to give great effort for relatively small reward. In Japan in the early '70s, the heads of companies made about seven times as much as production workers. In America today the difference is hundreds of times the line level wage. Our economy over rewards some people. It is not to society's benefit for the gap between poor and rich to grow. It is to society's benefit to grow the middle classes.

But to pay more for any job requires funding which is economically viable. Even if we heavily tax the uber-rich, we still won't be able to pay big money for menial employment. The job of supermarket check out clerk will never be paid highly enough to raise a family in middle class style. Still, in many parts of Buffalo two full time minimum wage earning parents could afford to buy a double if they scrimped. Cut out cable. Don't get a car. Eat inexpensively, rely on public schools and libraries and focus your kids on education. A respectable life can be carved. You'll get food stamps to help. It won't be middle class, but it will be decent. To pay for a better life style, figure out a way to become more valuable to the economy.

Bini, amen.

When are you running for office?

Paul,

Don't be selfish, I'm sure he'd find time to still contribute as mayor.

Can you see the smiles as someone appears to have just proudly attained another six months of majoring in...
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Title: Understanding Human Relationships
Sub Title: in relation to the world economy
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Table Tents: Pg. 1-2000 Buffalo and the rest of the world.
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Actually, I did the above so that I could have a reason for using "table tents" again!
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Heather, you sound just like HeatherSmiles--a uname I love!!!
Couldn't you get back in here with your old username?

Obama is just like those greedy grimy evil CEO's, and the rich dirty selfish business men, the little person needs their handouts asap, because people shouldnt be held accountable for their own actions, just because they want a mcmansion and cant afford it but decide to buy it anyways, the deserve it, they were scammed by the banks, brokers, real estate agents, and all the other shady rich business type people in this damn capitalist society, with all its money hungry monsters, right heather? I hear North Korea is nice this time of year...

our new president is so front and forward, he walked into a total mess, give the guy a break...and a chance. What do you want to see, G.W Bush who brought this county to it's knee's back in office?