New union grocery, Lunds, opens in downtown Minneapolis

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_5262

By Steve Share, Minneapolis Labor Review editor
13 June 2012

MINNEAPOLIS - The windows are still papered over, but Thursday the wraps come off when a new Lunds grocery store opens at the corner of 12th and Hennepin in downtown Minneapolis.

The new 20,000-square-foot Lunds will be a full-service grocery store staffed by members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 653.

About 55 members of UFCW Local 653 will be working at the new store, reported Steve Milner, Local 653 business representative. He said about 40 of the staff are new hires while the rest are transfers from other Lunds stores.


The new Lunds store is ready to open.

Photo by Steve Share

Except for a few managers, everyone working at the new store will be a UFCW member. “Cashier, stock, deli — those are all our members,” Milner said.

FULL story at link.

[rurallib]

1. My kids shop at a Lund's in Minnetonka

didn't know they were union.

[longship]

2. In my local town there are only two grocers

Walmart is one.

Meier's (a Michigan-based Walmart-type chain).

That's all. The rest of the grocers are long gone. This is a small University town. 25 miles North is another town with one locally owned small grocer.