Pic Of The Moment: Thought For The Day

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12. It's about lower turnover in the workforce.

Pay them decently and give them benefits and they stick around. You get a store with experienced, productive workers who take pride in their jobs.

Pay them slave wages without benefits, force them to get food stamps to supplement their meager income, and cheat them every way you can and you get high employee turnover. You have to constantly send new employees through orientation and training, yet they won't stick around long enough to become experienced and productive. Plus workers who don't feel appreciated in their jobs typically won't care much about the quality of the work they do. And your best employees will try to get a job at Costco.

Where do you think you will find the happier, more courteous, more helpful employees?

I like to think, too, that people like us DUers are voting with our dollars for better treatment for workers. I know I wouldn't set foot in a Wal-Mart, but I will shop at Costco.