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Major Supermarket Chain Kroger Warns Inflation Is About to Impact More Americans
Epoch Times ^ | 09/13/2021 | Jack Phillips

Posted on 09/13/2021 9:31:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 09/13/2021 9:46:33 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: blackdog

Pay more = more employees.


21 posted on 09/14/2021 5:41:21 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: trebb
IF WALMART PAID ITS EMPLOYEES A LIVING WAGE, HOW MUCH WOULD PRICES GO UP?
22 posted on 09/14/2021 5:47:19 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: SeekAndFind

And what is the Biden Demcorat’s solution? Dump $3.5 trillion in new spending on the inflation bonfire.


23 posted on 09/14/2021 5:57:08 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: irishjuggler

Profit margin in US Grocery is 10% or less. There is no margin to sell things at a loss and make it up elsewhere.

The costs they are paying to manufacturing, labor and transportation are going way up thanks to stupid US Government policies.

They are not going to magically be able to absorb the costs of this stupidity for voters.


24 posted on 09/14/2021 6:00:31 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods.

Feds should be raising interest rates and cutting way back on spending to suck some of the money they been dumped into the system back out. But since that would hurt the Biden Democrats politically, they will not do it.


25 posted on 09/14/2021 6:06:53 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: SamAdams76

One of my local stores installed a bunch of self-checkout lanes, then quietly removed them a few years later. Apparently not everything was being rung up.


26 posted on 09/14/2021 6:08:29 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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To: blackdog

I worked for Kroger from 1986 to 1994 (allowing for my 4 year Navy contract). I worked as a bagger, cashier, dairy, cashier trainer, assistant customer service manager, customer service manager, booth operator, week-closing booth operator and a closing manager.

Since the plandemic started, I’ve done 95% of my shopping via the app (Clicklist), and just pull up and have the groceries delivered to my car. I always tip the person $5 or so, because they’re doing something *I* don’t want to do anymore.

I’ve had friends who worked there 20+ years and finally said enough is enough. There’s a coming shortage of all kinds of workers - grocery store, teachers, police, and so many others.


27 posted on 09/14/2021 7:11:30 AM PDT by ro_dreaming ("We seem to have gone from 'We the people' to 'Me, the president' in a scant 8 months." - Me)
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To: alexander_busek

Remember THIS IS BIDEN’S FAULT... it’s not the fault of grocery stores that Biden and his commie thugs are bankrupting the country.


28 posted on 09/14/2021 7:22:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire)
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To: Cold Heart

AKA a Biden kick back deal everyone pays.


29 posted on 09/14/2021 9:33:54 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: central_va

If McDonalds and everyone else paid their employees “a living wage”, how much would prices go up.

You have bought into the Left’s meme that we have tp shower money on even the lowliest and least competent people.

Old story:
A man was applying for a job with an old geezer who was running a business.
The Geezer said, “I’ll give you a try, show up Monday morning.”
The man asked, “How much will it pay?”
The Geezer answered, “I’ll pay you what you’re worth.”
The man said, “I can’t live on that.”

Ask yourself - did you ever work part time as a teen - if you did, could you live/support a family with those jobs - what allowed you to make moves for better money that those who bitch about low wages can’t do?


30 posted on 09/15/2021 4:03:25 AM PDT by trebb (Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
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To: trebb
You have bought into the Left’s meme that we have tp shower money on even the lowliest and least competent people.

Wow! Who knew that a wage of $15/hr was a money shower????? LOL.

No it's the right's insistence on the cheapest labor possible is what is driving me. That produces a few rich fat cats and an army of Democrat-socialists.

PS: Anecdotally The McD's in my neck all pay above $15/hr to start and the menu prices are about the same year over year. Maybe 10% higher. How is that?

31 posted on 09/15/2021 4:10:48 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: BigEdLB

Fish is the most expensive of them all.


32 posted on 09/15/2021 4:11:15 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: LouAvul

96% lean? Sounds horrible!


33 posted on 09/15/2021 4:11:44 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: trebb
Ask yourself - did you ever work part time as a teen - if you did, could you live/support a family with those jobs - what allowed you to make moves for better money that those who bitch about low wages can’t do?

That's irrelevant. When I was a kid the USA was still and industrialized nation and they hadn't flooded the labor force with million of LEGAL immigrants and H-1b visas scabs. Apples and Oranges.

34 posted on 09/15/2021 4:16:09 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s all because the “box boys” are getting $13.50/hr now to stock shelves. /sarc


35 posted on 09/15/2021 4:18:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MNJohnnie

Right, blame the modest increases in wages for the inflation. Republicans really are the stupid “Cheap Labor Express” party.


36 posted on 09/15/2021 4:19:59 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

That’s the Dem plan in action - making a counter job at McDonald’s a “family supporting job” and it disincentivizes millions to become better and makes the unskilled nose-pickers the “new norm”

You may not realize it but you have “evolved” exactly the way the Left wants - you have been slowly brainwashed by the PC crowd to the point where you now argue their case and think its the way things ought to be.

Of Course, VA is pretty much a suburb of D.C. these days so I can see that immersion “therapy” works.


37 posted on 09/16/2021 4:16:57 AM PDT by trebb (Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
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To: trebb
You may not realize it but you have “evolved” exactly the way the Left wants - you have been slowly brainwashed by the PC crowd to the point where you now argue their case and think its the way things ought to be.

Wrong. I have been educated over decades to see that it is all about cheap labor to the right wingers. They don't believe in the free market for labor. Don't hand me that sh!t. They flooded us with LEGAL immigrants to lower prevailing wages and tell us at the same time there should be no min. wage. Then they virtue signal on how they are so inclusive and tolerant of immigrants. F them all.

38 posted on 09/16/2021 7:59:01 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Kind of funny that a FReeper rails against right-wingers for “legal” immigrants vs. bitching at the Left Wingers who want to literally destroy us and our freedom with illegal invaders...What’s more important - being able to support a family with a teenager’s job at McDonald’s or maintaining our freedom?

I still maintain your thinking has been subliminally altered - or you are on the wrong site...


39 posted on 09/17/2021 4:15:02 AM PDT by trebb (Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
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To: trebb

I want people to work and get off public assistance. You want the opposite and call me the leftist? How F’d up is that?


40 posted on 09/18/2021 4:29:14 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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