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...figures are appalling, and yet they seem, somehow, to have lost their ability to move us. That may be changing, slowly, as more and more women come forward to challenge what has become the biggest open secret in the American workplace. Big chain stores Publix and the Home Depot have shelled out a combined $180 million to settle female employee wage discrimination claims; Wal-Mart is currently facing a discrimination suit...
...relatives who used to do their banking at BankSouth or Citizens and Southern (known as C&S) must now bank at Nations Bank or Sun-Trust, larger banks that have merged with the more local banks. Grocery stores such as Piggly-Wiggly have been replaced by larger chains like Publix. Though changes in the name of the place where you bank or buy your groceries may seem trivial, I think they are part of a larger, unfortunate trend--the homogenization of the United States. Just as much of the rest of the world has come to look like the United...
...PETERSBURG, Florida: Southern supermarket chain Publix will pay $81.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by 150,000 women accusing the company of discrimination by promoting men and leaving women in low-paying jobs. The company will also open its doors for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to monitor its hiring and promotion policies over the next seven years. The settlement closes a case initially brought by eight women who complained that they were repeatedly passed over for raises and higher-level management positions. The EEOC joined their legal battle and expanded it to a class-action...
...hazards. But at least two food chains have come up with a savvy solution: pint-size shopping carts for children to push -- and fill -- right along with Mom or Dad. A&P has supplied eight of its stores in the Northeast with the little carts, while Florida-based Publix is using them in the Southeast. A&P imports the carts from West Germany at a cost of $70 each, about the same price as for the regular-size U.S.-made version...
Grocery-store managers had to cope first with customers who did not want red apples, then with customers who did not want red grapes and then with customers who did not want any fruit at all. The country's largest chains, including Sloan's, Publix and Jewel, stopped selling fruit from Chile. Grocers had to come up with a returns policy like their department-store counterparts. At most establishments it was money back, no questions asked...