{"id":3543,"date":"2007-01-17T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2017-12-07T13:24:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T19:24:46","slug":"wal-mart-wreaking-havoc-on-local-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/17\/wal-mart-wreaking-havoc-on-local-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Wreaking Havoc On Local Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/01F266E5F7C7F9D786257265000B5ED9?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Local family businesses are taking extreme measures<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>St. Louis shoppers can expect to see more grocery prices fall as competitors react to Schnuck Markets Inc.&#8217;s move to cut what it charges for some 10,000 items.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve always been competitive, and we always will be. That&#8217;s the bottom line,&#8221; said Greg Dierberg, president and chief executive of Chesterfield-based Dierbergs Markets Inc. &#8220;We&#8217;ll react to any items that we need to.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are they providing better values for the customers in the region out of the goodness of their hearts or in cutthroat competition between the chains?<\/p>\n<p>Of course not.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Schnuck Markets launched its aggressive pricing strategy on Sunday, ahead of what it sees as rapid expansion of Wal-Mart Supercenters into the St. Louis metro area. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., based in Bentonville, Ark., has more than 2,100 Supercenters in the U.S., including seven in the St. Louis market [sic, in that the story lacked a period]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Proof again that Wal-Mart is destroying mom-and-pop businesses and ultimately hurting the consumer.  But it&#8217;s so subtle that you can&#8217;t see it unless you squint really, really hard until the very dust motes before your eyes become capitalistic monsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local family businesses are taking extreme measures: St. Louis shoppers can expect to see more grocery prices fall as competitors react to Schnuck Markets Inc.&#8217;s move to cut what it charges for some 10,000 items. &#8220;We&#8217;ve always been competitive, and we always will be. That&#8217;s the bottom line,&#8221; said Greg Dierberg, president and chief executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18317,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions\/18317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}