What does $7.25 have to do with it? The article says $10.00 PLUS $3.00 in benefits.
And if you "just raise prices" the 'poor' workers in non big box stores making less will be even 'poorer'.
These power hungry shakedown artists and racebaiters don't care and don't understand. To them it really doesn't matter if nothing makes sense. The only thing that matters is making sure the constituents feel like victims and that they personally get their cut. They drive through poverty and despair all day with a smile on their face and they feel like kings and queens in control of their "peoples". IF those constituents took control, bettered themselves and tried to escape, well then they become nothing more than a Rice, Watts, or a Powell.
I'm not in favor of it. I'm just saying that they aren't going to close shop in Chicago over this. At worst, they will raise their prices.
The thug unions control Chicago. Their existing contract escalators are tied to the mandated minimum wage.
A raise in the minimum raise increases the entire union scale.