Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners.
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Walgreens didn’t respond to requests for comment. Sycamore declined to comment.
So is it more ethical for me to boycott them or should I go out of my way to shop there and pay more for their employees they stifle out of wages?
No amount of spending is going to increase a single employee’s wages. Boycott.
Buy only loss leaders. Stand in front of high-traffic areas failing to make up your mind. Find ways to waste their time then tip them generously for their “help.”
Make sure they make more money doing work that isn’t profitable for Walgreens than they make doing work that is profitable for Walgreens, and they’ll start prioritizing unprofitable work. Incentivize goldbricking.
The employees are even less motivated to prevent shoplifting, if it’s any consolation