Okay, so can you list the mom and pop shops you shop at? And the names of the moms and pops?I'd rather spend a little more, get much better service and actually be helping someone live their life. I don't go to wal mart, its makes me feel gross.
Okay, so can you list the mom and pop shops you shop at? And the names of the moms and pops?I'd rather spend a little more, get much better service and actually be helping someone live their life. I don't go to wal mart, its makes me feel gross.
I wish I could resist the sweet nectar of Wal-Mart.
I'm just too weak
I would love to finally be eligible sometime for overtime pay after a decade without. As for Wal-Mart, I recently saw an in-store job announcement for $20/hr starting salary as a typical Wal-Mart employee (not manager) in the store at Bangerter and 104th in South Jordan. I was shocked it paid that much!
I don't like mom and pop stores. They suck and, as a consumer, I'm glad there are fewer of them.
True. But can an argument be made that you're going to pay for it one way or the other? Meaning, you can either pay for it on the front end through wages or on the back end when these folks that are making low wages apply for benefits because they can't make ends meet?
I wish I could resist the sweet nectar of Wal-Mart.
I'm just too weak
A free market is a fantasy, too. Size matters a lot in a completion scenario with smaller profit margins, and in brutal market share exercises, like price wars. The little guy get rubbed out. That's not a "free market" in my opinion, it's a rigged market. That's why we once enacted some Trust-buster laws which essentially places govt regulation on markets to ensure competition can survive. That's not a "free market", either. We get all kinds of fun and games we have to deal with, like govt.-subsidized foreign producers doing a dump of loss-leader stuff on our markets just long enough to run the competition out of the game, then jacking their prices up sky-high.
I'd call it a "free market" if we imposed tariffs on imports to match sub-human wage scales abroad, plus the expense of our businesses living by environmental regulations and social/welfare taxes here. Otherwise it's not a "fair" playing field.
It's the same kind of thing with businesses that gratuitously label everyone "management" and require unpaid overtime to "manage" to stock the shelves.
Okay, so can you list the mom and pop shops you shop at? And the names of the moms and pops?
But teh sweet nectar (low prices, and have everything for one stop shopping, and there is always one close by) doe.The one by my house is full of disgusting humans, terrible employees, LONG LONG lines, and my car was involved in a hit and run last time I was there ( they hit me and left while I was in the store ) Its easy to not go back.
But teh sweet nectar (low prices, and have everything for one stop shopping, and there is always one close by) doe.
I go to Meier's meats for my meat and assorted groceries.
I have Winder Dairy deliver milk, butter, cheese, vegetables ..etc ... to my door.
I go to the neighborhood old guy to change my oil now after Jiffy Lube almost destroyed my car and charges twice as much
Admittedly, I haven't kept up on this threaf, so forgive me if it has moved away from this topic, but oh well. After my daughter's soccer game on Thursday night we stopped at the Wendy's in Kimball Junction. We ordered four Jr cheeseburgers, four value fries, and two combo meals. The total came to $26. Five of the six burgers were made wrong and we were shorted one order of fries. And they think they deserve $15/hr for that.
Agreed. And it would cost $46 instead of the $26 it does now.Some argue that once you start paying them $15/hr they will magically give a ****. I highly doubt that.