Keep on Striking - I'm Benefitting!
By the way, I'm very sick. Got the flu and stuff. High fevers disillusioned my vision and covered my body with icky sweat.

Blech.

But while I'm still feeling able, allow me to outline benefits of the grocer's strike that I found after visiting Ralphs:

1) A much better store! I've never seen any store so beautifully clean and excellently stocked. I spent well and over beyond my budget because they actually had everything I needed and then some!
2) Friendly employees. Happy employees who were happy to have jobs, even if it is temporary. Bright and cheery...I love it! I had an altercation one time with a checker at Vons who was ALWAYS rude and threw my groceries three feet away. Everyone else was always bored or annoyed. At Ralph's you could count on one particular checker to always be on the goddamned phone. The managers of the local Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons were always the biggest fucking assholes you ever met in your life.
3) Faster service. Even with a ton of groceries and the checker looking up codes, I zipped through the line. On a regular non-striking day at Ralphs, there could be a total of ten customers in the whole store and still take 25 minutes just to check through the Express line with the one box of sugar that I'd only want to get.
4) More parking. On a Saturday - woo hoo! Your loss is my gain.
5) Better sales. Just a few of the many: free eggs, 24 pack of Arrowhead water for $1.99, Carapelli 13 fl oz olive oil for $3.99. Plus $5 off my next purchase just for being a loyal shopper!

So keep striking, because the benefits for me are enormous!