Supermarket Shoppers

Re “Supermarkets Still Feel Pain of Long Strike and Lockout,” Dec. 15: Your writers clearly do not shop at Albertsons, Vons/Pavilion or Ralphs supermarkets. They refer to the markets’ profits being “pinched” due to “price cuts ... made to woo shoppers” back after the strike. Not so. Any regular shopper at these three chains (I shop at all three) know shelf prices across the board have substantially risen since the strike’s end. There are also far fewer specials available. It’s the shopper who is being made to pay for the strike gains, not the fat corporations.

Alan V. Weinberg

Woodland Hills