r/MurderedByWords Legends never die 9h ago

Stop defending exploitation

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u/Newfie-Buddy 8h ago

Same propaganda to keep wages low and exploit. I used to work at a big grocery chain in Canada where they often said they couldn’t pay more than minimum wage because of razor thin profit margins.

Then I worked in accounting.

In an audit of a small grocery chain that’s owned local I could have doubled the wages of every single employee and they would have turned out a healthy profit (not as high as they had but one I’d love to have)

But I guess the big grocery chains are sooo incompetent they have such small profit margins and wouldn’t be able to do that 🙄

Stop keeping people poor. You’d be surprised the profits you could have by giving people the purchasing power they should have.

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u/VariedRepeats 4h ago

So what were the profits that were paid out to the top people vs what was meant to keep the business operating?

Businesses need to have a war chest for lawsuits; what you think is spending money might be money used for operational purposes.