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TexasTowelie

(112,445 posts) Tue Feb 7, 2017, 08:58 AM Feb 2017

Dollar General says it will add 10,000 jobs this year

WASHINGTON (AP) - Dollar General Corp. says it plans to create 10,000 jobs this year tied to the opening of 1,000 stores and two distribution centers.

The discount retailer says the new jobs will increase its workforce by about 9 percent. The company says that as of last August it had 119,000 employees and operated 14 distribution centers and 13,000 stores in 43 states.

The Goodlettsville, Tennessee, based company reported more than $20 billion in sales in fiscal 2015.

The company reported weak earnings last quarter, citing lower food prices and a cut in food-stamp benefits in several states that forced low-income customers to trim spending.

http://www.dispatch.com/business/20170206/dollar-general-says-it-will-add-10000-jobs-this-year

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Dollar General says it will add 10,000 jobs this year (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2017 OP

If that was COSTCO I'd get excited about it but 10k more Minimum wage jobs.... Bengus81 Feb 2017 #1

You sure got that right. 10K more shitting paying jobs. raccoon Feb 2017 #7

Welcome to the T-Rump workforce revolution Zoonart Feb 2017 #2

Starting at $7.25/hour, and rising to $7.75 after ten years . . . hatrack Feb 2017 #3

Guess all that money they're saving not having to pay overtime to store managers is really working SticksnStones Feb 2017 #4

Also they will be the official carriers of the Ivanka line, tavernier Feb 2017 #5

They are the mini-walmart Cosmocat Feb 2017 #6

Yes, TexasTowelie Feb 2017 #8

Because they know $1.00 is all anyone will be able to afford to pay in Trumpland. TeamPooka Feb 2017 #9

Oh, goodie SoCalDem Feb 2017 #10

Almost all of their stuff being imported from China. Motown_Johnny Feb 2017 #11

Bengus81

(6,933 posts)

1. If that was COSTCO I'd get excited about it but 10k more Minimum wage jobs....

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2017, 09:05 AM

Feb 2017

and probably working 30 hours per week max. Meaningless...............

raccoon

(31,126 posts)

7. You sure got that right. 10K more shitting paying jobs.

Reply to Bengus81 (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 7, 2017, 09:30 AM

Feb 2017

Wonder how many of those jobs are in right to work, I mean, right to starve, states?

Zoonart

(11,879 posts)

2. Welcome to the T-Rump workforce revolution

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2017, 09:10 AM

Feb 2017

Crap jobs at shitty wages without benefits working in dollar stores to fleece the poor on expired canned goods and unsafe, dubious, merchandise rejected from other stores. YAY!

hatrack

(59,592 posts)

3. Starting at $7.25/hour, and rising to $7.75 after ten years . . .

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2017, 09:11 AM

Feb 2017

Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.

SticksnStones

(2,108 posts)

4. Guess all that money they're saving not having to pay overtime to store managers is really working

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2017, 09:13 AM

Feb 2017

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/11/22/judge-blocks-new-overtime-rule/94309346/

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a new rule making millions more Americans eligible for overtime pay, indefinitely pushing back the Dec. 1 effective date while he weighs a challenge to the requirement.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant in the Eastern District of Texas to grant a preliminary injunction affects an estimated 4.2 million workers who were to be newly eligible for time-and-a-half wages for each hour they put in beyond 40 a week.

The rule, released by the Labor Department in May, would nearly double the threshold at which executive, administrative and professional employees are exempt from overtime to $47,476 from $23,660.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/29/dollar-stores-work_n_3786781.html

Dollar General saved a bundle by having Hughey do much of the grunt work. As a salaried manager, she was exempt from overtime protections and didn’t get paid for extra work. Given that she often worked 70 hours a week, at an annual salary of $34,700, her pay sometimes broke down to less than $10 per hour — hardly a managerial haul.

tavernier

(12,406 posts)

5. Also they will be the official carriers of the Ivanka line,

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2017, 09:22 AM

Feb 2017

now that Nordstroms etc. have refused her stuff. Located just next to the gold toilet seats.

Cosmocat

(14,574 posts)

6. They are the mini-walmart

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2017, 09:29 AM

Feb 2017

you see more and more of these in the rural regions that are distanced from the bigger box stores and chain grocery stores.

Everything about them is a scaled down walmart model.

TexasTowelie

(112,445 posts)

8. Yes,

Reply to Cosmocat (Reply #6)

Tue Feb 7, 2017, 05:09 PM

Feb 2017

where I live there are a Walmart, HEB for groceries, Dollar General and Family Dollar. The last two sell various merchandise that isn't available at HEB; meanwhile the Walmart is on the far end of town (4 miles) so it isn't a journey I would consider on a bike ride. I can ride my bike to HEB, Family Dollar and Dollar General is the closest store near me so they do fill some needs for me.

I know that Dollar General isn't a great employer, but they fill a certain niche for people just entering the job market or with a limited set of skills. I don't believe that anyone starts working with them believing that they will be there long-term. So despite the fact that they aren't the greatest company to work for, any additional jobs is better than no jobs at all. Hopefully the workers there will acquire the skills to move on to better positions in the future.