Reply #16: You need to take a look at Costco

[zalinda]

They start at $10 an hour. If you pay low wages, you will get low wage employees. If you pay better wages, you get better employees. Come on........haven't you bought a cheap toaster and it lasts only a year, but buy a better one and it lasts longer?

This is what some people don't understand, these "stores" treat people as they are disposable. My son worked for JC Penney, and saw and overheard it. He worked parcel pickup, so he was invisible to most people. He only worked "full time" for a couple of months, then they started to cut his hours to where he was 2 hours under "full time", so he couldn't get any benefits, and there wasn't much to begin with. This was a person who was never late, and was only sick once where he couldn't go to work. They gave him hours where he couldn't take the bus (his shift ended after the last bus left the mall). They would change his hours or days, so he couldn't even look for a second job. Then they "fired" him. Well, corporate decided to close his department. They offered him 20 hours a week, janitorial.

These stores complain that their workers don't work, but then they treat them like shit and expect them to be loyal. I am campaigning to get a Costco here in CNY. I've seen what these chains have done here, and it makes me sick.

Pep Boys bought an art deco theater, tore it down, put a mom & pop auto parts store that was across the street (and had been there for 25 years)out of business. And within less than 2 years the ugly cement box that they built is empty and they moved on.

zalinda