Shoppers Drug Mart (a large retail chain here in Canada) is trimming back staff, employees' hours, and even some stores, as the result of its ongoing battle with the Ontario government's plans to cut the price of generic prescriptions in half *...http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/shoppers-drug-mart-to-slash-store-hours-staff/article1528421/
I knew something was brewing when two weeks ago one of the cashiers at my local Shoppers told me that everyone's hours had been trimmed back; hers to make just one shift a week. Her status as one of the longer-running employees apparently counted for nothing.
Do not worry, the money men will not really suffer.
(*As we all know, a bad thing.)
2 comments:
Wow-- as always it's the people at the bottom of the employee chain that get the short end of the stick. But the article conveniently doesn't mention that SDM overprices nearly everything else in the store
You are right; but those prices pay for the head office and all its inhabitants -- which is the case for all corporations.
Let's not forget the insanely high payroll of the fat-cats at the top... as I alluded to in my posting.
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