Walmart is increasing their minimum wage to $11 an hour- BUT-
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capitalism FTW
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Date: January 11, 2018 10:36AM
At the same time they are closing 60 sam's club stores, which will put at least 5,000 people out of a job.
They say the minimum wage increase is for the tax cuts- but at the same time are eliminating a lot of cashier positions and using the self-checkouts more instead.
I see this at fair lakes already- went yesterday around 5:30 to grab a last minute dinner item and some extra pens for work so I had 2 items in my hands- 10 self checkouts open but only 3 of them taking cash (and they didn't say so until you were done scanning all your stuff, no signs posted!), the rest credit-only with one attendant. Who didn't speak much english and kept making everyone restart their transaction instead of simply putting in the correct code. One poor woman couldn't scan her pork chops and the attendant refused to help her scan them "I will not touch pork sorry" and had to wait another 3-4 minutes for a manager to be paged and do it for them. No apology given to the customer just a brusque "it's their religion so I cannot punish them for this' as the woman was trying to get the guy fired for not doing his job.
Oh, and only ONE regular cashier line open- which was backed into the store with people with full carts of stuff too much to try to take through self checkout.
America FTW!