Subject: Re: o/t, American retail, shrink, DG,
' But hiring decent, ethical people to a low paid low status job requires flexibility somewhere else; flexibility on working hours, on pay, on human factors (do US stores require checkout assistants to stand all the time? that would be outrageous in europe).'' lol, I have never seen an employee sitting by the scanners, that includes, Costco, Walmart, and my local grocery stores. In Europe the employees , sit, and watch the shoppers scan ?