{"id":8627,"date":"2013-10-11T22:15:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T02:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8627"},"modified":"2013-10-11T22:15:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T02:15:20","slug":"dominicks-to-close-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8627","title":{"rendered":"Dominick’s to close in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Sun-Times<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve written a couple times about Ron Burkle, friend of the Clintons and supermarket robber baron. He had owned Dominick’s until the 1990s when he sold it to Safeway. <\/p>\n

If you ever lived in Chicago (especially a while ago), the city is totally dominated by two chains Dominick’s and Jewel\/Osco. Both are unionized and it’s hard to imagine they wouldn’t be “mobbed up”<\/p>\n

The Dominick’s in Park Ridge was very expensive, even compared to Jewel’s – but the store was still very busy. Dominick’s going under is about as unbelievable as a world without McDonald’s.<\/p>\n

My first guess is this was pushed over the edge by Obamacare. One of the names floated to buy up the stores is Walmart – I really doubt that because Walmart is a general line retailer that also sells food. The stores are too small for that – but I hope it is true… What a kick in the face to the Chicago political establishment that would be. It’s hard to use zoning to keep out Walmart when the grocery stores have been there 50 years and all that is changing is a new sign out front (and non-union employees)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago Sun-Times I’ve written a couple times about Ron Burkle, friend of the Clintons and supermarket robber baron. He had owned Dominick’s until the 1990s when he sold it to Safeway. If you ever lived in Chicago (especially a while … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collapse-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8639,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627\/revisions\/8639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}