Whole Foods (Amazon) Enacts $15 Minimum Wage... You Know What Comes Next..

[PriscillaVanilla]

Originally Posted by DRob4JC

That's how it is working in Whole Foods.

If they are not getting productivity because the employees don't care, then it is up to the company to fix that, and either raise salaries, or find another means to get the job done. As some have said above... the customer now bags their own purchases.

A lot of work is now being passed on to the customer. Bagging purchases, taking to the car, returning carts to the stores, all of that used to be done by store workers, particularly at grocery stores. Now the customer does it all, even working as a cashier to check out their own items.

[Oklazona Bound]

Originally Posted by dsjj251

I dont think you have ever worked in retail if you think this argument works.

Yes, companies will cut hours, they dont need to, but they do.

But if you dont pay people enough, what ends up happening is that they dont care about their job. Their work gets sloppy, they are continuously late, and sometimes dont show up at all, and/or quit without notice.

Training a new employee is like 1,000 to 5,000 dollars a person depending on the business(paperwork, lost productivity, training time)

I worked for years in retail management. You have a budget for labor. Your net profit is slim. If you add several dollars an hour to most of your hourly employees pay you either need to raise prices or cut hours. And it makes much more sense to not raise prices. You lose customers that way. So hours are cut. Its up to management to keep people motivated and happy. But when you are talking minimum wage jobs its always a revolving door. You are always having to replace 10-20% or so of your staff regardless. If you are in retail management and doing your job correctly you are always interviewing and have to be ready to plug someone in as needed. Your $1k to $5k number to hire a new minimum wage worker is ridiculous. If its a cashier or stock person it takes a few hours to learn the job usually they have done something similar before and need to just learn things your way. Very low cost even if its their first job. If its a more skilled position they are making way more than minimum wage and they should have extensive experience doing said job somewhere else.

[Mtnluver8956]

Originally Posted by sandsthetime

Well if you kept your "stalking" opinion about me to yourself, then you probably wouldn't be arguing with other posters about your lack of reading comprehension.

Just remember, those could be mothers or daughters are are staring at. Probably best to put those easy eyes on your shopping list. Thank you for supporting Amazon though!

[phantompilot]

Originally Posted by dsjj251

Was it socialism when people were making about 25 dollars an hour in todays money back in the 60's ?

That's not accurate.

For most Americans, real wages have barely budged for decades | Pew Research Center

That shows that in 2018 dollars, workers make about 10% more today than they did right in the middle of the 60s.

What's the problem? The problem is the way people spend what they earn. They buy a lot of crap they didn't buy in the sixties. Computers. Cell Phones. All kinds of gadgets. Health insurance that covers crap they don't need and can't use, and that doesn't cover the stuff they do need and CAN use. Rapacious governments have increased taxes and fees on everything. Environmental protections and regulations cost consumers tens of billions of dollars per year. The overpopulation crisis has increased the scarcity, and thus the price, of commodities and necessities. There's lots of reasons why middle-class workers are more tightly stretched when it comes to the household budget.

But getting screwed on a fair wage isn't one of them.