Sure do miss then Blue Light Specials Uncle Trip , it was always a FUN Sunday after church when you would take me there and the Blue Light Specials was always -15% savings and them Sub-sandwiches was good too !Wrong my friend, you've got it reversed.
Kmart to acquire Sears in $11 billion deal
A resurgent Kmart, home of the blue light special, is buying the once-dominant Sears department store chain in a surprising $11 billion gamble it is counting on to help both better compete with Wal-Mart and other big-box retailers.www.nbcnews.com
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I’ve been working nightsWrong my friend, you've got it reversed.
Kmart to acquire Sears in $11 billion deal
A resurgent Kmart, home of the blue light special, is buying the once-dominant Sears department store chain in a surprising $11 billion gamble it is counting on to help both better compete with Wal-Mart and other big-box retailers.
Attention Shoppers! Oh the good old days. And the subs were really good. Drove my mom nuts to get me a sub.
They pretty much had the same flexibility as ABF with the utility drivers, but abandoned that in a short period then wanted that back & a little more this time. It was **** poor management that failed this company not the union or it's employees....
I believe it was K-Mart that bought sears
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At one time they actually gave WalMart competition. I likes the law away plans. Thats how we got school clothes in the summer
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They had way too much overlap between the companies which wasted alot of money. Definitely **** poor management, not arguing with that fact.
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Sorta feel bad for the people that think yellow is coming back as it was. Whatever monstrosity emerges I can guarantee you it won't be the yellow you left. Different work rules different environment. Different dispatchers different people. Pay could even be lower also with camera's watching your every move. I turned down jobs because they had way too invasive policies on what I can do in the cab.... I don't wanna be fired because I took my hand off the steering wheel to pick my nose, scratch my back or itch my balls.
My honest opinion if this happens they'll just be a smaller regional carrier and sell off all the properties they don't need for profit. Perhaps a new penn 2.0 emerges.
I think a lot of these LTL carriers shot themselves in the foot not bringing on yellow drivers even if the economy is bad. They turned down dedicated workers who spent decades doing a job that's hard to find people to do these days let alone pass a drug test. When they finally need us majority of us will be comfortable in our new job.
My honest opinion if this happens they'll just be a smaller regional carrier and sell off all the properties they don't need for profit. Perhaps a new penn 2.0 emerges.
I think a lot of these LTL carriers shot themselves in the foot not bringing on yellow drivers even if the economy is bad. They turned down dedicated workers who spent decades doing a job that's hard to find people to do these days let alone pass a drug test. When they finally need us majority of us will be comfortable in our new job.
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ODFL can operate in the 70's with a lower bill count..
Yellow??? Now so much...
Before yellow new operated in the low 80’s.
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Kinda agree but these companies arent going to hire anybody just to sit around. There has to an opening. I dont know of any place that hires a lot when its slow just in case it does pick up. A lot of places let go when its slow or nit pick and fire just to slim down.
Yellow was hiring the day they closed the doors,.
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The union employees will be called back in reverse seniority order as needed to fill the positions, the only people they will need to actually "rehire" would be the non union supervisors/employees who were terminated.
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Yes but that was 25 years ago.
APA was the same...
They couldn't keep up with the changes taking place..
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Don't bank on this scam happening.
It is a fake to change your perspective and shift blame away from the teamsters union for Yellows closure..
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Yea I understand why LTL companies didn't hire but when I was OTR those cut throats would undercut other companies to steal freight for future prospects to make money.
Basically if these OTR cut throats had a LTL company they would of hired as much people to take all of yellows freight and then increase rates over time to eventually turn profits with higher freight volumes
Instead these non union carriers stood together in solidarity to hopefully make them pay their rate... Hmm sounds like they stole that from the union handbook... We should make them pay the debt for stealing union ideas
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i understand but Yellow management didnt know how to run a company properly. You dont hire people you dont have a job for.
If anyone could buy another company while they are broke and in bankruptcy it would be “Ole Yeller”. They have never let being broke get in the way of a good acquisition or merger. LolololWrong my friend, you've got it reversed.
Kmart to acquire Sears in $11 billion deal
A resurgent Kmart, home of the blue light special, is buying the once-dominant Sears department store chain in a surprising $11 billion gamble it is counting on to help both better compete with Wal-Mart and other big-box retailers.
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You didn't work for APA did you Puff?