Vote for net neutrality today!
need a better explaination...
posted by Bird @ 6:25 AM
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1 Comments:
Follow the money.
The original origins of Safeway were by some guy named Skaggs. Yes, American. I concede. What do I know about grocery stores? I believe if you dig it all up he was from Misery (this is where the Skaggs family who are behind Safeway I just learned). Had a ton of stores there. I think his name was Marion. Then he moved west, but not to Utah. He was not a Mormon. One of the Skaggs broke off from the family and went to Utah and married a Mormon. If you marry a Mormon you somehow lose all of your previous self worth and identity and become part of the lemming collective.
They started some stores, but not Safeway at that point. Somewhere along the line the names changed. You probably saw all this on the site. Safeway started buying up everything, including the other Skaggs places in Utah. There is the Mormon tag.
If you found where it was all Mormon all the time that is odd. Because it is not. Safeway went belly up (almost) in the 90s and sold off everything (including the British stores) and reformed. When it came back around it was with British money (look at the primary investors) and headquartered somewhere out in California, not Utah. The days of the Skaggs and Lynches having their hands in it are long gone. It is a multinational now. At some point it has been tied to Longs and Albertsons. etc.
I am sure you could pull up some nastiness on just about any place. Even the companies that line the Demos coffers. Give the money to the democrats and see there bright ideas. Not many there either. Hey, though, Emily misses you terribly. Ha. Read that book by Bienart. The guy is right on.
Other places to follow to the church: Rite-Aid (you do not have that?), Dominos.
It took forever to find this thing. But now Emily can see herself on the web and note your odd ramblings on the liberal blogosphere. Thanks again for everything on the trip.
Peace out.
Tim
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