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post 1704894051 08-11-2024, 08:29 PM
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Gee I'm shocked grocery prices are high. (lol at unions)

Did you know grocery checkers for the major California chains make $55k per year plus full health benefits?



Three years experience and you're guaranteed to reach that pay rate. And they won full medical without employee contributions like ten years before this.

BRB total pay package around $75k per year.

BRB most people would still prefer self check.

BRB cashiers at non union stores do the same job for $12/hr across the street.
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post 1704894151 08-11-2024, 08:32 PM
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post 1704894401 08-11-2024, 08:38 PM
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If the difference is that big how come the union stores are still in business?
post 1704894711 08-11-2024, 08:48 PM
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Explain to me how unions impact on efficient pricing decisions by corporations, genius

Unless you’re part of the “cost-plus pricing” retard crew in which case don’t bother
post 1704894761 08-11-2024, 08:48 PM
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Another why useless people love the smell of their own shiit getting paid a large sum.
post 1704894871 08-11-2024, 08:51 PM
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Originally Posted By LinuxJon⏩
Did you know grocery checkers for the major California chains make $55k per year plus full health benefits?



Three years experience and you're guaranteed to reach that pay rate. And they won full medical without employee contributions like ten years before this.

BRB total pay package around $75k per year.

BRB most people would still prefer self check.

BRB cashiers at non union stores do the same job for $12/hr across the street.
Isn't stater bros in cali union? I think back in 2006 the cashiers were making like 20 bucks an hour, wonder what they make now.
post 1704895051 08-11-2024, 08:57 PM
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55k in california is like just above poverty line there.
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Originally Posted By DeadlyStriker⏩
55k in california is like just above poverty line there.
Pretty much what I was thinking. It’s the “enough to pay a lot of taxes and not qualify for any government assistance” threshold/line over there. A terrible income level, all things considered.
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Damn, minimum wage was 4.25 when I started working my first job.
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In this case, I'd doubt it's making a huge difference. They got rid of all the baggers and added the self scan machines, so there aren't many actual cashiers anymore.

Groceries are expensive because everyone had the ability to raise prices during Covid and they're now colluding to keep those prices from dropping, although many of their input costs have dropped. Also gas prices are high, which impacts everything in the entire supply chain.

If they lowered gas prices and gave us a desperately needed recession which is long overdue, this problem will fix itself fast.

This is why we need a Trump presidency. It will end the current Ponzi scheme. Kamala will just keep the bubble going and fuk things up more.
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Originally Posted By JackyChin⏩
If the difference is that big how come the union stores are still in business?
The unions are likely only in the largest grocery chains, who can absorb costs through scale and having more negotiating power with suppliers. And chances are even though they have union representation a lot of the workers aren't full-time, so no health insurance benefits for those workers. There's a high chance they also let employee numbers fall through attrition.

100 employees, 3 leave, 3 more aren't hired. Right now there's a lot of that going on, companies expecting the same output with slightly less people. Then they put ghost job postings up to make current employees think more help is coming, but little to none is coming.
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Originally Posted By Paul
Damn, minimum wage was 4.25 when I started working my first job.
How much did a Big Mac cost back then? Inflation is a bitch. I posted a photo a few months back of a USA Macca's drive-through menu from 1983. Everything was under $1 and a coffee cost 10c. fkn lmao!
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Cost of labor definitely has an impact, but if you look at commodity chart prices you will see a stronger correlation with food prices at grocery store

cocoa of ass:
corn of butthole: (corn taking a hit, and prices have recently come down)
sugar smack ass:
lumber: damnit boy

well whatever

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post 1704897121 08-11-2024, 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted By superfunk⏩
How much did a Big Mac cost back then? Inflation is a bitch. I posted a photo a few months back of a USA Macca's drive-through menu from 1983. Everything was under $1 and a coffee cost 10c. fkn lmao!
Yeah like everything else the costs relative to middle class income have gone up. The lulzy part is how our government always underreports inflation. Not just now, not just two years ago, they've been doing it for at least 45 years. I can partly explain how, but it's a bit of a snooze.

There's one main reason and it isn't to keep the public from complaining too much. Social Security. Underreport inflation and the government doesn't have to pay as much cost of living increases to retirees the next year. To be fair, if they reported real inflation, which is almost always double what the government says, our Social Security system would have gone bust a couple of decades ago.
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Grocery store people used to make like over 30$ an hour in my area, over 20 years ago. Now they are minimum wage and the prices did not go down. Why?
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Originally Posted By superfunk⏩
How much did a Big Mac cost back then? Inflation is a bitch. I posted a photo a few months back of a USA Macca's drive-through menu from 1983. Everything was under $1 and a coffee cost 10c. fkn lmao!
Can't remember, think 99cent specials, what I remember most at McD's were the 29cent hamburgers on Monday's and 39cent cheeseburgers on Tuesday's. We'd load up after practice.
post 1704898121 08-11-2024, 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted By SmackSonPissIt⏩
Cost of labor definitely has an impact, but if you look at commodity chart prices you will see a stronger correlation with food prices at grocery store

cocoa of ass:
corn of butthole: (corn taking a hit, and prices have recently come down)
sugar smack ass:
lumber: damnit boy

well whatever

cool rolex bruh
smack out
Smack brah making a point.

I remember lumber prices early in Covid:



BRB your 2000sqft home now has an extra $200k in materials to build it.
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The pan handler in the parking lot is making more than $12 an hour in California.
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