Menard to fly Wis. workers in to staff ND store

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3. They refuse to pay the local prevailing wage.

I go to Minot now and then, and all of the traditional minimum-wage jobs are begging for workers. Why would anyone work flipping burgers or running a cash register when they can make 5 or 6 times as much driving workers or water to the Patch?

I stop at a KFC when I'm there because it's cheap and they have a buffet and there isn't much else available. The last time I was there, the manager was running the drive thu, the counter, the buffet and the kitchen all by himself. He looked about 5 minutes from death, and of course speed, service and quality were all completely in the toilet.

I asked why there was no help, and he said, "Corporate won't let me pay the wage I need to get workers in the door." KFC would rather lose a restaurant in a boom town than set a precedent of paying what the job market requires. Menards is just doing another form of the same thing.