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Originally Posted by SomethingWitty
I was not trying to raise the point that Costco is better than Walmart/Sams Club, but rather that one of the largest retailers in the country can pay a living wage to it's employees and still have competitive prices.
And that by paying a living wage, their employees are not having to resort to tax dollars to get by, and are not a drain on public resources.
Or another way we could look at it, is that we are subsidizing Walmarts profit margin with our tax dollars whether we like it or not.
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What is the munificent starting pay and benefits package at COSTCO, versus Sam's/Wal-Mart?
Your source is?
Are people bring physically forced to take jobs that they do not want?
Do you believe that the employees are being denied the opportunity to compete for promotion to positions with greater pay at Wal-Mart? Is everyone in the store earning minimum wage?
Would you prefer that they just stay in their homes and be paid welfare in the same amount by the rest of us who are working? How does that eventually work out?
What do you think happens when a business opens a store and cannot employ sufficient numbers of employees at the wage they are offering?
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