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Wow, how charitable of Walmart; giving 40% of their workers a whopping pay raise anywhere from .15 to .52 per hour!!! What about the other 60%?? What are they? Chopped liver?
Why is all of the hatred always specifically directed at Walmart?
Walmart employs 1.4 million
Mom & Pop stores (collectively) employ 20 million
Walmart (on average) pays better than the mom & pop stores
Why are there no protests "Jim's deli needs to treat its workers with dignity"
Why are there no complaints of "Local grocery stores are increasing the number of people on government benefits by not paying a living wage!"
When a $9/hour Walmart comes to town, people complain that they're going to crush all of the ($7.75/hour local) mom & pop stores...
Study by Stanford
Pay is, on average, 15% higher in the largest retail firms than small firms, Stanford researchers conclude. Perhaps even more important, workers have more chance to move up at big retail chains than in smaller shops. Average managers at national chains earn more than $65,000 a year, and some positions pay more than $100,000 a year.
“The data suggests that the larger firms attract the better quality workers, both by offering higher wages and, perhaps even more importantly, opportunities to advance,” says Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Kathryn Shaw. “The small-scale stores are under a lot of competitive pressure, and they really don’t pay or offer chances for advancement.”
So a store moves to town that can pay $1/hour more...and offer lower prices to the consumers...yet people complain about it and criticize it in the name of "competition"...apparently people want the kind of competition where nobody wins...
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