Sam Elliott special kind of stupid

If you can't support your workers, you should not be in business.

The purpose of business is to make profits, not to give you a job. You only get the job if you help the business make enough profit to make it worth paying you. Welcome to reality.

Krogers isnt a mom and pop shop. You just like to defend large corperations and a dislike for humanity. All good bro.

WTF is a corperation?

Canadian education - you're obviously not getting your money's worth up there, paying teachers double sometimes triple and Johnny still can't spell.

Profit margins on food are 6% at best; less if you manage poorly. That’s why your cook in home food budget is not 35% of your take home pay like it was in 1900 when the profit margins were higher and there was a grocer on every other corner.

Why are you so against people making a decent living wage anyways, is it cuz you don't make shit either? Chances are you're underpaid aswell. Do you know how much a teacher makes here? double sometimes triple what a teacher makes down south. Fight for your money f**ker.

I want everyone to make a million dollars a year. So how many people do you employ at living wages?

Your gas would cost $100,000 a gallon

I do not think it’s opposition to higher wages. It’s practicality. A businessman needs to have an incentive to hire. So business needs to be promoted, not regulated and taxed until it’s not worth the hard work of keeping it open.

Proving imgflip libtards know NOTHING of small, medium or large business.

So you've obviously never ran a business. It's ok to defend a major corporation that would rather shoot itself in the foot, I believe in living wages and fair employee treatment.

I have been self employed and hired/paid employees most of my life, ignorant Communist tool.
You still know nothing of what a business is, even at the most fundamental level.
The thought of a little insect like you criticizing any business for bailing on Socialism is absurd.

Hah, if you weren't such a loser I might believe you.

Another mistake... thinking I care if a (likely jobless) Canadian shit bird believes me.
Dude, you live in a craphole country to start with. You're on par with Eurotrash.

Hah, if you weren't such a loser I might believe you.

I believe that too. You must be employing each person at the same or greater wages than you take home from your business. Commendable.

I’m sure you know all about the profit margins of supermarkets. Please, do tell.

Publicly traded company, that info is available to anyone, and they released their quarterly reports.

Profit margins are in SEC filings? LMFAO. You are more ignorant than Biden. And that’s saying a lot.

And you're the most ignorant person on imgflip everyday no matter how often you change your alt

Whatever you say, Canadian cuck. Enjoy your slide into Communism with Castro's bastard love child at the helm. Eventually, they'll come for you, even though you cheered on the Leftist mob.

The back story, for those like PESMES that don't keep up on current events, is that the City of Long Beach (that's in California, again for those that don't know) ordered grocers to pay their employees an EXTRA $4 an hour on top of what they were already making as "hazardous duty pay".

So, Kroger (the parent company) said that it makes more business sense to close up shop.

They WERE supporting their workers before the city tried to see who could pee further. Kroger won.

Now, the workers aren't making squat, except possibly more on unemployment than they were working.

Business not only need to support their workers, but they also need to support their customers and shareholders. Shareholders need to see a profit. If expenses go up, management is not going to decrease their profits, they'll just pass on those expenses to the customers or, as in this case, stop the non-profitable activities.

Well, they can support workers at the locations that they're keeping open. Even under your logic, the locations that they are closing SHOULD close. Because those locations cannot support what has been determined, arbitrarily by the cities involved, to be a fair wage, but only specifically for grocery workers.

This is why socialism crashes economies. It manipulates wages until no one is employed, no one is producing goods & services, and inflation is hyper inflated. Venezuela.

Ummm. So business is a philanthropy to keep people paid? Whether they generate funds or not?

Krogers proffits were up threefold compared to this time kast year. They're still making lots of money during the pandemic, they're only closing stores where they are mandated to pay more money, they're trying to bully their way through, f**k em, it was never about the people

So Kroger should keep open unprofitable stores because the shareholders want to lose money?

You're trying too hard.