“...as they would require the mostly part-time employees work more than 10 years to get reach the top pay scale.”
Two thoughts:
1. Who is going to work part-time for 10 years in a Grocery Store to reach the top pay scale unless they really, really feel it is their calling in life to be a Grocer...and if that’s the case, they’d have started their own store a decade ago, and...
2. If it’s a part time job, for fun or profit, or p*ss-poor planning with your finances throughout your life, GRANDPA, who the flip cares?
It’s a ‘Whole New World Order,’ folks. You should hear the TEENS I work with whining about the fact that they’re only making $8 an hour in a job a semi-trained & diapered Chimp could do, LOL!
And I guess since they can’t break the spine of Wal-Mart, the Unions need to go back to Square-One. Again. *SHRUG*
Here are the basic jobs in a supermarket...
Carriages - You walk around the parking lot taking empty carriages and putting them back in the store.
Bagging - You stand at the end of a register taking items off the conveyor belt and you place them in either plastic or paper bags.
Cashiering - You take the items the customer places on the conveyor belt for you and figure out where the bar codes are located. Once you do, you put the bar code over the "scanner" and put it back on the belt for the bagger.
Stocker - You take boxes from the warehouse, wheel them into the supermarket, unbox the items and place them on a shelf.
Warehouse - You drive around in a forklift, taking pallets of items off trucks and stacking them up in the warehouse in a predetermined location.
Manager - You basically walk around the store with a red jacket making sure all the above people are doing their jobs and not hanging out in the breakroom snacking on "damaged" goods.
Well, there you pretty much have it. There are a few other jobs too like taking blocks of meat and cheese and running them through a slicer at the deli or weighing out fish and wrapping it in wax paper in the seafood section but basically you can be taught just about any job in a supermarket in about 15 minutes provided your IQ is at or above room temperature.
About the most complicated job you will have in a supermarket is a butcher and increasingly, supermarkets outsource their butcher work anyhow.