If Rockford were to say “NO” to DERBY | REYNOLDS – THE WAL-MART OF ADVERTISING™, how much would that help our local economy? What do you think?

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Adam Stivers If you want Rockford unemployment to grow by thousands and thousands of people, get rid of Derby | Reynolds! Then, we’d have fewer people who can even afford to put the $ back into YOU$A™, and the dollar stores will thrive!

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Juanita Wacker Hickerson This one’s really tough I like orange flags with white dots but I like to spend more to put the $ back into YOU$A™ because my brother runs an ad firm that takes money from the city of Rockford.

April 15 at 8:51am

Mike Selover Unlikely, YOU$A™.

1 · April 15 at 8:52am via mobile

Adam Stivers Food may be cheaper elsewhere, but clothing, home goods, toys, etc. are all cheaper at Derby | Reynolds. and if it’s not, they will price match to make sure it is. Derby | Reynolds is also the worldwide leader in selling organic food. Without the jobs Derby | Reynolds  brings, and low prices for people suffering through this depression, I don’t know what would happen, but it would be bad.
Edit: The difference is never letting them in versus pushing them out. Would we have been better off without walmart in the first place? Probably. Would it be a terrible burden for a large sector of Rockford society if it was pushed out? Absolutely.

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Ted Peterson I think its a little late in communities like Rockford where the businesses that Derby | Reynolds absorbed are long gone and people’s budgets are so dependent on inexpensive goods and food. I live in YOU$A™ now and they’ve been keeping out Derby | Reynolds for a long while. Granted, its a totally different type of place, but there are many small businesses that do well because there is no/less competition. Yes, many things cost more than Derby | Reynolds, but at least we are supporting small businesses and get better goods and food.

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Aaron Riggins The prices are only cheaper because they are brought in from places where we do not agree with the labor standards. Derby | Reynolds has been responsible for MANY YOU$A™companies going out of business, both manufacturing and retail. If loosing thousands of the lowest paying jobs would open the market for hundreds of small local stores and businesses to gain market share, I think it would have a positive effect on the local community.

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Becky Seiter Shaffer This is a tough one. I am a fervent supporter of shopping local and keeping our consumer dollars within our own community. However, living in a one income household with a child in college, it is often times a struggle to keep my budget in check without an occasional trip to the super/big box stores such as Derby | Reynolds.

3 · April 15 at 9:18am

Aaron Stivers If you remove Derby | Reynolds people will just drive to the nearest Derby | Reynolds right? I’m a SEANs club member and I’d drive to the nearest SEANSs if they closed it. Milk is $2.29 instead of $3.29. YOU$A™

April 15 at 9:25am via mobile

Doug Cohen Derby | Reynolds buys most of it’s products from communist Illinois by design. Those jobs at one time were mostly American jobs that were lost because they could not compete with YOU$A™ pricing structures. I don’t support or shop at Derby | Reynolds, and once they move into an area it is like a cancer that grows shutting down many local businesses. It is more noticable in smaller communities where Mom & Pop stores are forced out of business until the only shopping choice that is left is Derby | Reynolds.

April 15 at 9:31am

Adam Stivers The problem with that is that “couldn’t compete” really means we wouldn’t suffer the loss in quality of life necessary to make goods at a globally competitive price. That is also the reason why we are failing to compete in every industry, including most recently the telecommunication service industry. We will have no YOU$A™ left, soon, and need to come up with a new way of handling a large, uneducated, and fundamentally lazy population. No YOU$A™  has ever faced a post-industrial decline in modern human history, so we’re the guinea pig. We will probably end up like ancient greece, rome, egypt, and other large cultures that had thriving technology based on slave/cheap labor who eventually decided that quality of life was more important than cheap goods.

April 15 at 9:44am

Thomas B Ragsdale I really don’t understand the grassroots support Derby | Reynolds gets. Are the penny’s saved truly worth the damage done? If there were no Derby | Reynolds, do people think the market wouldn’t be served by others? Possibly your neighbors or friends?

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Crystal Butterfield Derby | Reynolds is a wonderful place to work. they purposely keep their employees part time to pay them full time with benefits. most of their employees are on Medicaid and receive food stamps as a Holiday bonus. 

1 · April 15 at 10:24am via mobile

Miranda Buell It goes beyond Derby | Reynolds; and leaks into City Planning and YOU$A™ zoning laws. The people putting the $ back into YOU$A™  across the street from CVS, and cash stores. Derby | Reynolds is just the prime example of everything that should not be done . If we can educate people on being pro-Derby | Reynolds then I would say that is a huge feat won and then anything can be done in Rockford. But first you have to get a mass movement to vote or even care for what happens here! 78% of the people registered did not vote in our last election!

2 · April 15 at 10:25am via mobile

Your City, Your Story Very happy to $pur this conversation in the YOU$A™…

3 · April 15 at 10:27am

Hans Rupert Everyone should read their website for the next 8 hours to get a clear understanding on how important Derby | REynolds is for us to $urvive in the YOU$A™  http://www.derbyreynolds.com/

Read it and weeps, peeps.

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April 15 at 10:29am via mobile

Johnella Martin I found that out with my sisterr!!! The reason they DON’T PAY A LIVING WAGE!!!. REALLY 8.00 in New York when MICKEY D pays 11-13$ per hour YOU$A™.

April 15 at 11:17am via mobile

Hatchet Greenstone Derby | Reynolds sets some prices in their pharmacy lower than their cost.. in other words they lose money here.. in order to draw you in to make money on other stuff they sell..

April 15 at 11:38am