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[–] shadow_figurine@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The kroger ceo makes like 15 mil

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've heard it said that Dollar Trees are notoriously easy to shoplift from...

[–] ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You probably don't want to get caught shoplifting from the only place in your town that sells groceries.

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That's a given. But if the only place in your town to get groceries is a Dollar Tree then that kinda sucks.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They aren't.

Source: Watched a lady get thrown out of Dollar Tree for shoplifting

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Dollar Tree was always my last resort "Dollar Store". Now I'll never go there. Add another to the list

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

I mean, they could at least have blamed tariffs.

[–] gmanlikescheese@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Back of the napkin math, assuming all 214,000 employees (Google result) are at $8.32/hr, and get bumped to $12/hr, and they all work 2000 hours a year (2 weeks off), that results in an annual increase in payroll of $1,575,040,000.

Obviously something has to change, and I don't think people would mind another bump in sale prices if that means better pay across the board for employees.

[–] Lumiluz@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You forgot that the 1.23 billion is in profits, not revenue. This means their revenue is much higher.

The other factor is those 214,000 employees don't all work full time. A high percentage are part time.

The easiest solution would be to greatly reduce CEO pay (reducing by 9 million would cover the cost of 375 full time employees at your calculation), and reduce the amount of employees but make them fulltime at 35 hours, but make it so they also get mandatory 3 weeks vacation (paid at 30%), or 2 week vacation with full paid sick leave.

Yes, there would be less jobs, but each of those jobs would actually pay enough to live off of. Dollar tree doesn't really operate in high cost areas so that 12/hr would be enough to cover expenses for most of their employees.

There's probably many other optimizations they could do but haven't because why should they when they're already making over a billion in profits.

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