Minimum Wage

[Gman]

That is actually S.O.P. for many corporate department stores, supermarkets, and restaurants . . . but since it is illegal to fire employees for forming a union to engage in collective bargaining, the tactic is just to close the store and relocate the managers. It makes a fairly powerful anti-union statement to the community when a location attempts to unionize and suddenly a popular store closes overnight and all those jobs are lost.

Sounds like when the grocery workers at Safeway were wanting to strike when I lived in TX. Safeway warned them not to do it because they couldn't afford to operate at the costs the workers were demanding. They went on strike and Safeway left the state.

It looks like they came back with some business interests later, but those folks that went on strike were out of a job.