Grocery Chains Sharing Costs to Offset Strike Toll

By DAVID GREENBERG
Staff Reporter

Unionized grocery workers' biggest gambit in the five-week old strike - the
decision to pull their picket lines from Ralph's stores in a
divide-and-conquer tactic - appears to have been neutralized in advance by
the three major grocery chains.

As part of their pre-strike "mutual assistance pact," the chains secretly
reached a revenue-sharing agreement that will funnel extra income generated
by crowded Ralph's stores to the two others, according to Chicago-based
industry analyst Mark Hugh-Sam of Morningstar Inc.


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An interesting tactic.

Dimitri