Hobby Lobby Discounts Outweigh Dismay Over Court Ruling

[xchrom]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-02/hobby-lobby-discounts-outweigh-dismay-over-court-ruling.html

While Hobby Lobby Stores Inc.’s customers may disagree with the retailer’s stance on contraception, they aren’t changing their shopping habits or seeking their craft supplies elsewhere.

“I’m a supporter of reproductive rights, but the ruling doesn’t really impact me much in terms of where I’m going to shop,” Suzie Frazier, 43, said yesterday outside a Hobby Lobby in Canton, Michigan, west of Detroit, as she prepared to buy sidewalk chalk for her son. “Yeah, it’s disappointing that Hobby Lobby feels that way, but if they have something I need that others don’t, I’ll shop there.”

The closely held store’s right to refuse to pay for employees’ birth control because of religious objections was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court this week.

Frazier isn’t alone. The Oklahoma City-based company’s sales have outpaced competitors such as Michaels Stores Inc. and Jo-Ann Stores Inc. in the last year as the case wound its way through the U.S. legal system. The Supreme Court’s decision capped a 22-month battle by the purveyor of plastic flowers and children’s crafts against a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that its health plans cover birth control without cost to their workers.

[Skittles]

1. and that is the problem

that woman cares more about sidewalk chalk than the rights of women

[xchrom]

2. +1

[Arkansas Granny]

3. This.

[theHandpuppet]

4. How utterly depressing

How do we change this?

[Skittles]

7. honestly, people are selfish

what she actually means is, this doesn't directly affect me and I still need my sidewalk chalk. Some people - low information folk - simply do not understand things until they get very bad. I'm not sure how to change that - all the information they need is out there but if they're not interested in being informed, it's hard to make them care.

[FSogol]

11. Sadly, the Chinese manufactured chalk contains asbestos.

[leftstreet]

10. +1 She has a right to cheap sidewalk chalk!!!

Disgusting

[Sherman A1]

5. Everyone has to make their choice

in what they feel is best for them.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025181907

[angstlessk]

6. I think the impact will be over time and not immediate

Like limbaugh (sic) and Fluke

[quinnox]

8. Not surprised. If most average people even hear about this in the first place, which most won't,

but if they do hear the news, it will be greeted with a collective *shrug*.

[SoCalDem]

9. Mrs 43-yr old's daughter may have other opinions

The irony is that the most fertile years (teen through about 30), also happen to be the years that so many people really are so self-involved, that they shun politics, and many don't have a clue how political decisions even affect their lives.

and of course who could pass up a BOGO sale for orange rick-rack ?

[Omaha Steve]

12. Just like the young lady that was paid to circulate a petition in Nebraska a few years ago

The petition had enough signatures to go to the ballot. The end of affirmative action was passed. I even asked her IF she knew what she was doing to get the check. Her reply was she only wants a job she earned.

OS