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Discount retail stores like Walmart and Dollar General have always been a bit messy and unkept but in my area(greater Charlotte) even Target and higher end grocers are a mess and the discount retailers are a total disaster. Very few staff, nothing in the right place, bare shelves, dirty. Is this the case in your area as well?
Nope.
I'm willing to bet it's not like that in South Park, Ballantyne, Dilworth, etc, either.
Now the Aldi in University City? Probably less than stellar.
Wal Mart doesnt average 350 employees , at least not any more, thats a quick google search so im not going to hold you to that mistake. but lets get into this.
1. I didnt say I worked at wal mart(this matters because salaried employees are employed by the district where I work, not the individual store, so it doesnt count towards the store budget, this is because those employees can technically be asked to travel to any store in the district if needed(Store manger, assistant store manager, Visual, admin, LP)
Since this post was about part timers and lower level staff in retail in general, i assumed it was clear that wal mart was never the central focus, but rather an example.
2. You assumed the max on everything when i clearly gave a range.
3. you assumed an average 30 hours worked per week, yea, we arent hitting anywhere near that average where im working. the 25 part timers we have are maybe getting 8 hours a week( a shift is 4 hours) and thats pushing it.
idk why you looked to insult when you could have just had a conversation. The OP used 2 exampled Wal Mart and Dollar General. If you were looking to have an honest discussion, you would have given a DG estimate too, which has like 7 employees on payroll.
So yea, an extra 15K is about right. because most retail places dont have near 350 people on payroll(including wal mart now) LOL
The thread is about big box stores. You claimed a $5/hr pay increase would only add $15K to annual payroll costs. I posted hard data proving you wrong for a big box store. My numbers came from Google searches. I stand by my post.
Let's go at this another way. You said $15,000. $15,000/$5 is 3000 labor hours per year. That's about 1.5 full time employees or 3 employees working 20 hours per week. I'm not aware of any Walmarts with only 3 employees. Try again. Try harder. Use math this time.
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The thread is about big box stores. You claimed a $5/hr pay increase would only add $15K to annual payroll costs. I posted hard data proving you wrong for a big box store. My numbers came from Google searches. I stand by my post.
Let's go at this another way. You said $15,000. $15,000/$5 is 3000 labor hours per year. That's about 1.5 full time employees or 3 employees working 20 hours per week. I'm not aware of any Walmarts with only 3 employees. Try again. Try harder. Use math this time.
The ops definition of "big box store " simply meant national branded store since again, they included Dollar general in the original post .
I'm telling you as a retail employee in a supervisor role, these parttimers aren't getting 30,20 or ever 14 hours per week , which was a point made long before you posted by 3 different people .
Seems Walmarts have bad carts bart. None want to roll right dwight. Seems like everyone in in the way stocking stuff when i go there 7 am on a Sat about every 6 weeks.
That's because they allow people to take the carts to the parking lot and leave them in a parking spot. I saw a woman one day who wanted a particular spot bad enough to push the cart out of the way with her car. I don't think she pushed it into another car, but she could have.
That's because they allow people to take the carts to the parking lot and leave them in a parking spot. I saw a woman one day who wanted a particular spot bad enough to push the cart out of the way with her car. I don't think she pushed it into another car, but she could have.
No wonder i park far away ray. I gotta go this weekend and deal with stuff being out of stock. But they are cheaper on some stuff vs Publix. Wished they did 2 for 1.
The ops definition of "big box store " simply meant national branded store since again, they included Dollar general in the original post .
I'm telling you as a retail employee in a supervisor role, these parttimers aren't getting 30,20 or ever 14 hours per week , which was a point made long before you posted by 3 different people .
But nice try
You still haven't acknowledged that your $15K number was complete BS. Instead you're all over the map with these weird tangents, none of which are germane to the issue at hand. Bottom line: a $5 per hour pay increase will affect the bottom line of almost any size store and will result in increased consumer prices.
You still haven't acknowledged that your $15K number was complete BS. Instead you're all over the map with these weird tangents, none of which are germane to the issue at hand.
1. my number isnt wrong.
2. Not a weird tangent, its like 8 pages of posting before you joined showing us already talking about it. You tried to ignore context and not even contribute to the forum just so you could argue that my math was off, and you still were wrong, LOL
why not actually discuss what we are talking about.
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Bottom line: a $5 per hour pay increase will affect the bottom line of almost any size store and will result in increased consumer prices.
no it wont.
if this was your actual argument, ill remind you that store manager bonuses exceed the individual raises of most employees. My boss for example, got a 9,000 bonus(not including her actual raise), that was more than the entire amount me and my coworkers got in our previous years raise.
I hope you weren't supervising anything that involved money or ma
The average Walmart has 350 employees.
Let's assume they average 30 hours per week.
That's 10,500 labor hours per week.
If everyone got a $5 per hour raise, that's an additional $52,500 per week.
There are 52 weeks per year, so we're looking at $2,730,000 additional labor costs per year at the average Walmart location. Of course, the actual numbers vary from store to store, but your $15K claim per year is ridiculous.
There are 4,735 Walmart stores in the US, generating $143,754,000,000 gross profit, or $30,579,873 per store. So, a $5 raise works out to about 9% of each store's gross profit. You can bet your boil infested butt they're going to raise prices to recover that.
Walmart has put billions into buying back shares of its own stock which did not really do much. They could instead have put that money into paying their employees more. Since most workers probably shop at Walmart it would actually benefit Walmart to give their employees a raise.
There are thousands of rental markets within the US. It’s about local supply and demand.
We do not have a constitutional right to housing. How many people contemplate the cost of housing, feeding, educating and emotionally supporting children, when they choose to engage in unprotected sex?
There are thousands of rental markets, sure, but in last two decades little to no new LOW PRICE HOUSING has been built. So all those at the lower end are competing for fewer and fewer apartments, houses, etc. The top end is increasing in price too, but the former residents of those housing units can just move down to the formerly cheaper units. Its those at the bottom forced out.
So yep those that cant afford to live should just shrivel up and die? Seriously claiming its all mismanagement on part of those at low end is the same old "no bread, then let them eat cake" mentality. Society only works when people have at minimum, food and shelter. Those at top are losing sight of this and apparently welcoming revolution and socialism with open arms cause they are trying to grap it all without leaving significant crumbs behind for those lower on ladder than them. Or maybe they are planning extermination camps for the surplus population? Arbeit Mach Frei! Isnt that the old fascist motto for their death camps. Hey homeless guy, wanna take a free shower.......
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