Sara Lee to lay off nearly 1,700 workers

Sara Lee Corp. said Monday it will lay off nearly 1,700 employees as part of a reorganization plan to increase business performance.

[Monday Monday]

How about some better bread instead?

[FWIW]

They say that the economy is looking good on Wall St. No one seems to be concerned about Main St, Hometown, U.S.A. Those bargain priced Chinese imports at Wally World may get discounted when everyone is layed-off and is struggling just for a meal and a warm dry place to sleep.

[Concerned]

I am from MS and my family members have worked at the Bryan foods in West Point for years, including my father. These large corporations don't know what they are doing to people in places like northeast MS where there are hardly any other places to go look for a job. I don't know what my father plans to do but this is a sad day for 1700 people of which 1200 are coming from MS.

[Jim Trimm]

When workers start bringing in unions they run a strong risk loosing their work place. The union organizations are like locusts. If a corporation can't produce profit in is well with in its rights to shut down. Unions need take a que from the dinosaurs and become extinct.

[Quince Stewart]

Sara Lee says West Point facility does not fit in their long-term goals. If that is true- Sell the name and plants, and get the HELL out of the business! Sara Lee is just another money hungry corporation, that FORGOT, the individuals built the company!

[Quite Frankly]

I've always liked Sara Lee's buns. I like her bread, too.

"Everybody doesn't like something. But nobody doesn't like Sara Lee!" (convoluted adsong)

[Quite Frankly]

Jim Trimm. A case in point was the Borders book store in trendy Uptown Minneapolis. It was a gigantic store with many book genres from which to choose. So what happens, the very first clerks union was formed here at that store. The result, Borders said to heck with it and closed the store.

So now the largest spaced retailer in Calhoun Square has left a huge empty storefront at a main entrance.

Hey maybe minimum wage wasn't so bad after all, eh. Better than no wage. And the clerkies probably got deals on books. And none of them, and there were MANY of them, worked very hard. Lots of standing around talking to each whenever you needed ask them a question. "Oh pooh! Another potential customer. What does HE want, anyway? Tsk tsk."

So maybe it's better to major in some useful occupation-bearing degree, other than English?

[Quite Frankly]

Those were yet two more incisive, frank comments from thee one and only QUITE FRANKLY.

And now to brush my teeth. And then to bed, perchance to dream, as the Bard said, sort of.

[CALVIN BANKS]

IT WILL NOT BE THE SAME WITHOUT BYRAN FOODS,BUT I WILL BE PRAYING TO GOD THAT SARA LEE SALES THE NAME BACK TO BYRAN FOODS.