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In a rural area perhaps. When I was living in NYC I was basically living out of my car making $12 an hour. Even a bedbug infested room will cost you $1500 per month there.
Most minimum wage jobs are not full time, but part time often a few hours a week. So a lot of people have to juggle multiple jobs with varying shifts.
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." - President Franklin D. Roosevelt
I went to Wal-Mart and Hardees this morning. I tried to get some deli meat at Wally World, and the clerk was very surly. Only one line was open, backed up with customers, and the cashier there was also very unfriendly. The Hardees was unclean and I ordered a chicken biscuit, and ended up with sausage. If these people can't do better than this, why do they deserve a raise?
A raise .. .is between the employer and employee and based on a variety of factors including ability, other people able to job (job market), etc.
Your treatment could be in line with both companies interest in you for a customer, for instance. perhaps you are a poor wal-mart customer (based on their target graphics) and they are actively trying to discourage your presence in the store.
OR - it could be you. Perhaps you are just a real @#@hole and you get service in line to how you treat these workers?
OR the job market is really tough, and they can only hire jerks
not enough information to decide on a raise, but i'm sure wal-mart and hardees knows and will reward these people in due time.
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." - President Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Franklin D Roosevelt was an idiot" - Chris From Chicago
They would get contacts with the better stores that would have to be put in place to replace Walmart. (Similar to when Walmart came and put every other store out of business.)
And then we could ALL stop subsidizing Walmart and their workers. Would you not appreciate this? I know i would!
I believe most retail pays similar to Walmart. Mom and Pop places often pay less, and have fewer benefits. Costco is a separate place b/c they have far fewer employees per unit sold.
I believe most retail pays similar to Walmart. Mom and Pop places often pay less, and have fewer benefits. Costco is a separate place b/c they have far fewer employees per unit sold.
CostCo is also separate because they have membership fees, and if they didn't, they only turn a profit twice in the last 12 years, and in those two years they would have averaged 0.4% profit.
The membership fee gets lost in CostCo discussions. Just figured I'd toss it back in.
CostCo is also separate because they have membership fees, and if they didn't, they only turn a profit twice in the last 12 years, and in those two years they would have averaged 0.4% profit.
The membership fee gets lost in CostCo discussions. Just figured I'd toss it back in.
Agreed. The membership fee is discussed in the link I posted. They make a lot of money on those fees.
Agreed. The membership fee is discussed in the link I posted. They make a lot of money on those fees.
Sorry, didn't read the whole link. My bad.
Yep, if CostCo didn't have a membership fee, things in their business model would be decidedly different or else they'd be going out of business.
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