Jim Manning Quotations

It feels like you're in a bidding war for your own people.

We do a labor forecast, we work on it on a daily basis. It's the hardest challenge - you can't take work and just expect that you're going to get 50 or 60 guys for help.

There are many senior union members who will stay with grocery, but the younger ones (employees) are looking at different careers.

They still need us, because China can't produce a trumpet that's any good.

I only know what I've read in your newspaper.

Then there are those (stores) caught in the middle, we are feeling the competition ... you have to adapt ... it's very competitive.

I look at this as a time for change.

It's cold out here, but it's freezing inside.

It's not a real bright day for us.

It seems like the competition is at two ends.