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Strike fervor among grocery store clerks has extended beyond Southern California to workers in West Virginia, Kentucky, Chicago, Indiana and Arizona. At a time when the grocery industry is attempting to lower costs to compete with the likes of Wal-Mart, food workers are trying to maintain their standard of living in a fight that affects all service workers. Unions represent about 45 percent of the 3.5 million grocery workers nationwide and if they are successful in this battle with grocery store owners, they plan to extend their organizing drives to target low-cost operators like Wal-Mart.