Plainfield Meijer

[LA Dave]

Not everybody in the GR area is rich. Yes we have our fair share of Escalades and McMansions. What city dosen't now-a-days? For the most part Grand Rapidians put pants on the same way, one leg and a time. As for Fred, he could have been born with a silverspoon in his mouth. But I don't recall any silverspooners starting off in their father's growing grocery chain as a humble bag boy either

Well, you don't much about Fred Meijer then. His father was a Dutch-born socialist who started a little grocery store in Greenville in the 30s. Fred did start out as a bagboy, or the 1930s equivalent thereof. He and his sister were far from rich, I assure you. I'm not sure you would even consider them middle class. Certainly not by today's standards.

Fred built that chain, not his father, who died in 1964, long before the Meijer company really seriously took off.

[tamias6]

Well, you don't much about Fred Meijer then. His father was a Dutch-born socialist who started a little grocery store in Greenville in the 30s. Fred did start out as a bagboy, or the 1930s equivalent thereof. He and his sister were far from rich, I assure you. I'm not sure you would even consider them middle class. Certainly not by today's standards.

Fred built that chain, not his father, who died in 1964, long before the Meijer company really seriously took off.

[Veloise]

I didn't say Fred was born with a silverspoon in his mouth. There is a difference between "could have" and "is". I know that his father was not rich. I read two of the paperbacks that Hank Meijer has written about the business and the family. My point is that Fred is different type of wealthy person. Like his father he had to fight and claw his way up the latter of success to earn his keep and he and those of Meijer, Inc had to do the same for the business. The way Fred did things is the right way to get rich because the wealth he's earn is not in the form of his sizable financial assets he accumulated over the years. His true wealth is in his good character forged by his efforts to get to success.

[LA Dave]

I didn't say Fred was born with a silverspoon in his mouth. There is a difference between "could have" and "is". I know that his father was not rich. I read two of the paperbacks that Hank Meijer has written about the business and the family. My point is that Fred is different type of wealthy person. Like his father he had to fight and claw his way up the latter of success to earn his keep and he and those of Meijer, Inc had to do the same for the business. The way Fred did things is the right way to get rich because the wealth he's earn is not in the form of his sizable financial assets he accumulated over the years. His true wealth is in his good character forged by his efforts to get to success.

[tamias6]

Hey, I remember my mother using aluminum foil to create partitions so she could cook a whole family meal in a single large pan. That way, she would not have so many dishes to do after dinner.

Fred probably washes & reuses aluminium foil.

My mother the doctor used to sit down with the little plastic screen cylinder that kept washer lint out of the drain. She'd pick it clean and re-use it. When I offered her a brand-new cable tie from my stash, she'd refuse. "That's expensive."

[Veloise]

On tonight's agenda in Plainfield Twp.

[FilmMaker]

On Tues. Jan 9, the PF Planning Comm forwarded a favorable recommendation to the PF Board encouraging approval of the rezone request.

[NorthEnder]

On Tues. Jan 9, the PF Planning Comm forwarded a favorable recommendation to the PF Board encouraging approval of the rezone request.

[FilmMaker]

That and the plainfield corridor improvement should help things!

Its good to see P.T. is finally able to get out of their own way on progress, for years and years things were bogged down by the anti-progress regime in power that only wanted to look out for their own.

[michguy582]

There are new renderings of what the new store is going to look like in the west entrance of the Plainfield store, and with the words "Coming in 2008". So there is some time yet before they begin construction. I am guessing that they will finish Alpine first and then come to Plainfield.

[Raildudes dad]

There are new renderings of what the new store is going to look like in the west entrance of the Plainfield store, and with the words "Coming in 2008". So there is some time yet before they begin construction. I am guessing that they will finish Alpine first and then come to Plainfield.