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QuikTrip starts employees @$8.50 an hour. They have a different business model than companies they are compared to, and these salary examples are for managers, and have expected/worked overtime baked into the calculations. If I extrapolated my hourly rate of delivering pizzas to 40 hours, baked in 7.5 hours of overtime per week (5 hours @ time and a half), my annual STARTING salary as a pizza delivery driver, 17 years ago, was ~$38k. Not bad scratch, but not the reality of driving pizzas either.
Every business is different, there are 1,500+ separate economies in the US, and one store doing one thing well does not mean all businesses do well doing that same thing.
Geez...why do you guys get so defensive on the topic.
The point of the thread (and I'm the OP) was never about every corporation doing business the same way.
No...you meant what you wrote....that's why you have the inability to answer anything...that or it took you a REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLy long time to come up with some sort of an answer....
Then why is it that you were the only one making that assumption? No one else but YOU.
Lol...Look, I answered your question. You don't like the answer because you'd have to admit to some level of illiteracy.
And who else besides you supposedly asked me a (dumb) question that I refused to answer?
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.
Stop it. Seriously...give the "business owner" stuff a rest.
Dig baby dig, got a tenching shovel in the truck outside my office if you'd like to join them.
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