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| New Yorkers Shocked To Find Food Prices Rising After Minimum Wage Hike |
| 2019-02-01 |
| [HotAir] The result of the Fight for 15 movement in New York City has finally gone into effect. The minimum wage jumped by 15% in many cases, to $15 per hour this month. This mostly affects employers of lower skill level workers, particularly in the food service and beverage industries. And now that labor costs have risen, restaurants from fast food joints to upper-end fine dining establishments have raised their prices. As a result, some people have had to make adjustments in their budgets and lifestyles, going out to eat less often and bringing their own lunches to work. Holy cow. Who could have seen that coming? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 The left thought that compares would just lower their ungodly profits and nothing else would change. Didn't occur to them that profits might not be ungodly and that there are other ways to keep the numbers balanced. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2019-02-01 20:17 |
| #7 New book title: Cause and Effect for |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2019-02-01 20:17 |
| #6 A lot of fast food places are selling $7 sandwiches. For $8 I can get a basic meal at a regular restaurant with table service. If fast food meals go up even a little bit, I suspect many will simply go out of business. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-02-01 17:18 |
| #5 Welcome to ECON 101 dipshits. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2019-02-01 16:26 |
| #4 After they absorb this, then maybe we can start teaching folks what makes their property taxes go up. |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-02-01 15:38 |
| #3 Wait! Are you saying that if you make stuff more expensive, it ends up costing more? How can that be? We never talked about it in Intersectionality and Oppression class. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-02-01 11:54 |
| #2 Walmart and many others are going self-checkout or online orders that are picked for you to receive at entrance. Contrary to public updates many employees are indeed laid off. The checkout displays can be reversed if customer complaints become a problem. Then you check out as normal. Two full carts for checkout with food stamps, right!!. The bad work ethic of the youth is extremely poor. Food handling for many of them is horrible (all aspects). The future is here. OH, major reductions in selections. You will have to order online for many things. |
| Posted by: Dale 2019-02-01 11:29 |
| #1 Only people who believe in the Magic Money Tree(tm) |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-02-01 08:11 |