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Originally Posted by wdfifteen

There is really no correlation between gross retail receipts, profit, and compensation. Retail often works on extremely thin margins, sometimes 1 or 2%. What's 2% of a million dollars?

Really, 1-2%? That seems extra low. I have no idea what the margins were when I was in the auto parts business, but I do know that when I was in college and working in a grocery store that they usually made 4%, and they had once hit 10% and that was such a big deal that they had shirts made for all of the employees.