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fob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-04 01:01 PM
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40. You are not making a "truthful point". You are making an assertion
based on limited facts. Salaries/wages are costs that may affect pricing, but that doesn't mean that paying decent wages is exclusive to a discount retailer scenario. Someone else pointed out the Costco model uses unionized employees, pays good wages and competes pricewise with Mall-Wart.

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If the avg WM has 250 employees and all of them get a $2/hr raise that's an additional $20,000 in costs so with these additional costs WM can do several things, the stores can have it come out of their budget, out of their profit, raise prices, FIRE 1 worker making $10/hr, stay open one more hour, or some other marketing to increase hourly sales, or whatever else they want to do.

As for my "claiming you are someone you are not", that was a joke. Well, not a joke really, more a rhetorical device.
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