lordredsnake t1_itsgo26 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 11:37 PM

Reply to comment by Trafficsigntruther in Controller Rebecca Rhynhart to resign today and launch run for mayor by jberk988

What's your point? Jeff Brown also pays his workers less than other retailers. We should applaud him though because he's local?

Trafficsigntruther t1_itsmig4 wrote on October 26, 2022 at 12:21 AM

That a national retailer might want to keep prices consistent across their stores and can spread the losses of selling soda in Philly across the nation. Brown has like two store outside the city so he can’t do that.

> Jeff Brown also pays his workers less than other retailers.

Aren’t his workers unionized?

lordredsnake t1_itt8szk wrote on October 26, 2022 at 3:18 AM

Brown doesn't just sell soda, he has other goods to spread the costs to. His stores are largely in poorer neighborhoods and I don't shed a tear for someone who wants to charge poor people 100% of a tax to make a political statement.

His stores are unionized, and yet big bad Amazon pays its Whole Foods employees better.