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Don't know how many of you have shopped at a QT store given your locations, but i use them exclusively when there's one in the area.
Very nice, very clean, and the variety of snacks and drinks...along with some fruits and other miscellaneous items is actually kinda dizzying given the size of their stores. Some even have a grill in back, and the stuff they serve isn't half bad.
I've noticed that it seems a tad pricier than other similar chains, but i'm more than willing to pay a few cents more for the cleanliness and variety of merchandise stocked...especially the soft drinks. And the staff is extremely professional.
I started frequenting these stores after i read a 2011 piece on how well they pay and treat their employees. But i noticed that the piece seemed to have at least a small degree of skepticism relative to how long such a business model could last.
Well here we are in 2014, and the company is doing just as well if not better. Here's an excerpt from the piece:
Wow...imagine that. Sounds SO COMPLICATED, right? Have a clean and courteous business with good products and a well trained staff... Treat employees well, pay them a good wage with the promise of more opportunities ahead, and they'll be loyal, won't turnover very often, thereby saving you money and making you profitable.
Yeah i know..."these people are unskilled and should realize that these are entry level jobs and these profits should be returned to stockholders blah, blah, blah"....i can hear it now from the typical corporate shills on CD. But whatever.
And who are you to decide how much of their own money the Waltons "need?" Are you a majority shareholder in WalMart? Are you a Walton? Did any of your capital get risked at the outset of the WalMart corporate adventure?
The money they have is THEIR MONEY. How does it become anyone else's place to decide how much of their own stuff they get to keep?
I am just trying to point out the massive amount of greed in this country, the Waltons can afford to pay their workers a little better and should. It would fuel the economy if all multi-billion dollar corporations would pay their entry level, low skill workers a little better.
I am just trying to point out the massive amount of greed in this country, the Waltons can afford to pay their workers a little better and should. It would fuel the economy if all multi-billion dollar corporations would pay their entry level, low skill workers a little better.
The way to achieve that would be to go to your next city council meeting and tell them to vote to increase the min wage in your city. Seattle and Sea Tac did that and now worker's there are/will be making $15/hour.
But Hobby Lobby doesn't support the "abortion pills" which negates all that is good about them.
And because they don't pay for that $35 pill, which should only be taken as a last resort, Hobby Lobby is evil in their eyes.
QT is privately held and therefore activist shareholders do not hold their feet to the fire to cut, cut, cut to increase dividends.
They have 700+ stores and about 17,000 employees. They are recognized as one of the top 100 best employers by those who bestow such recognitions.
They pay and benefit more than their competition and as a result attract and retain a higher quality employee.
A minimum wage entry level worker may eventually advance to a management position with shared P/L responsibility and make good money. Most will not because they are not cut out for that kind of work.
There's a segment of the population that will pay a tad more for a better shopping experience, where available.
There's some truth to this post. Public companies that go private cite the constant need to show growth in profits as the reason they go private.
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