Absolutely. Very well said.

I live in a low income, rural community in the west of Michigan. We don’t have a lot of big retailers outside of big cities, so daily retail needs are taken care of by stores like General Dollar.

The one in my small village is often out of most items, so when I had to drive to another town a couple days ago to get my lawn mower serviced, I stopped in at a different one. But their shelves were pretty empty too.

The clerk told me the back room was full of stuff just unloaded from a truck, but they didn’t have any employees on duty to stock the shelves, because they couldn’t find workers.

I know there are people around here who are looking for work, but I also know that they’re not interested in working for minimum wage, which is all that store chain offers. Managers, with a lot of responsibility, only make a couple dollars an hour more than minimum wage.

I’m sorry, but you can’t feed a family on that. You can’t pay rent let alone a mortgage on a house, afford to drive a car which is a necessity out here, and pay utilities. You just can’t. Life costs more than what this store chain is willing to pay full-time workers.

And they’re complaining about a labor shortage? Give me an ever loving break.