Seattlest: Sonic Boom Records Saves Fremont Ave

guest

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:18:27 -0800

The best thing about the sonic boom general store is the 1'000's of LPS! Them and Jive Time up the street make fremont a weekly destination of mine.sonic boom general store has an atm now! $2 fee however, but my bank is nowhere near it so i'll gladly sink 2 bucks into indie pockets rather than some corporate jerks.

guest

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:03:05 -0800

>>... we like Trader Joe's: ... and conscientious >>and they treat their employees well As a former TJ's employee I assure you, they don't treat their employees well. In CA they would typically give fewer hours per week to employees that file for workers comp. (Lots of repetitive motion injuries and back injuries) A kind of "soft firing" where you can't afford to stay employed and not work. ...yet they work enough within the morally-bankrupt ... capitalist system to keep prices affordable. TJ's has a terrible reputation in the food industry. After TJ's I worked at a food manufacturer so I know from experience. For example, the wine industry calls TJ's "The grave robbers." TJ's is the functional equivalent to Walmart. Cheapened semi-natural food that are mostly (natural) fillers. Please, shop the co-op.

Tom

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:57:15 -0800

You're right, Morfydd, that's the other thing I forget to gripe about, the frustrating lack of a BartRitegreens. ...and the general shortage of ATMs, and banks, for that matter.

Tom

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:54:32 -0800

Thanks, axis420. I agree with you about the laughability of my observation in aught-two. I would have liked to have seen Fremont 10 years before that and maybe even earlier.

Morfydd

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:40:34 -0800

Red Apple - pfft. The Rite-Aid it replaced was actually useful for a residential neighborhood.

axis420

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:37:13 -0800

Nice post. Plain and simple. Though I do have to say that the idea of Fremont still having "the mix of uppity and gritty" in aught-two is laughable. Fremont was dead to most of us by the turn of the century (Sonic Boom, TDM and Fremont News aside).