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Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
.........In addition, we have a bunch of people who then are becoming "lifers" at Safeway because the job is a cushy one with high benefits. .........
.......We're rapidly falling behind Asia in terms of the education of our workforce...
-Wayne
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Therein lies one of the main ingredients of the grocery worker thing. Grocery workers used to, in the olden days, be career folks. Not only that, but if you were willing to stay in your home town and stock milk for an entire career, there would be decent (decent, but not obscene) wages (like the current $20 thing.....c'mon, that's not Porsche earnings) and even better (still not obscene, but definitely comfortable) retirement bennies. Today, that industry is coming painfully into equilibrium with other industries. Labor is not going to stand still for that. They'll use all their tools to resist. I'm not blessing that, necessarily, or poo-pooing it. Just reporting a factor.
Asia and India (and some others, probably) are going to KICK OUR ASSES up one side of this planet and down the other. Education is the key and we're squandering our national security for greed instead of investing.