I would not be surprised (difficult to prove).Brian Lutz wrote: ↑August 2nd, 2022, 2:16 pm https://komonews.com/news/local/some-st ... r-closures
It turns out that two of the closed stores are union locations (505 Union Station and Olive Way in Seattle) and the unions continue to assert that the closures are for union busting purposes. The article does state that all of the affected employees at these two locations will be moved to other ones though.
As we learned from grocers in California closing stores for specious reasons in response to temporary Covid Pay Programs (underperforming stores slated to close before Covid came around or other non payroll reasons).
Businesses often close stores for reasons NOT stated publically.
It is NO secret that business, writ large, will do almost anything to bust unions and for the most part have gotten away with it. Hopefully a newly constituted NLRB will have a look see. One of the biggest factors in the diminishing of the "middle class" has been the near destruction of Labor Unions (like or not and inspite of some of their hyperbolized dark history).