This story reminds me of the Last Week Tonight review of dollar stores.
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2024
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This was incredibly eye opening. For the tl;dw, most dollar stores employ less than a skeleton crew, often 1 person for the entire store. That person gets minimum wage. The stores are therefore so badly operated that they become infested with rodents and targets for robberies.
The executives have mentioned to investors they don't make money off selling products, they make money by spending almost nothing on labour costs. They explain they can get away with it because their stores operate in the poorest neighbourhoods.
It's some of the most evil corporate speak I've ever heard and I watched the one where a chocolate company exec explained child slaves actually like working on cocoa farms.
Great Video