So why make a joke that there are 2 supermarket staff on over 20k, when the minimum wage in the UK is above 20k? By default if you work as a full time checkout assistant, you are on over 20k if you are over 23 years old. Even the £10.18 for 21-22 year olds is only £149 off being £22k a year.
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I would presume your figures are because there will be a lot of part time staff due to being students or parents, so flexible part time hours suit them. Majority of people I see working in supermarkets aren't 17 years old these days, but there will be plenty, just like there will be plenty that want part time hours. Tesco has a LOT of people that want part time hours for school times etc, in fact they were in the news recently for letting people request flexible working patterns from day 1. But no matter how many people you employ you still need the same overall amount of FTE.
Because even with increased fraud it is still cheaper. You have to steal an awful lot of bananas or tubs of iced cream to breach the savings of having the equivalent amount of checkout assistants manning tills.
Security guard at the door, plus majority of items are paid for on card so while people will commit fraud on the machines, its generally pretty dumb to do seeing as they have your details and a video of it. Some accept cash, some don't. There is an acceptable level of fraud due to the savings involved and the fact that its usually fairly traceable.
Average salary of a boots manager is £33k, fully loaded cost will be more due to pension, national insurance contributions and benefits, but reality is you're talking about an extreme edge case - a manager is not going to man the checkouts full time, but there will always be staff there -just less are needed for that part of the store and more needed in things like warehousing, distribution, logistics, home delivery drivers etc. Company can sell a lot more for a lot less.
If time is valuable, why are you wasting it queuing to get served? You still pack your own shopping at a checkout, just someone scans it for you, and time is valuable but you'd rather spend it nattering to the shop assistant and other customers instead of the people you know?
Did you avoid going into department stores that made you pick your own floor as well when they got rid of lift operators? Or was that ok? You've just made a similar post in the other thread, yet you have double the amount of posts on FMTTM that I have and I was on this forum from Day 1. Really odd stance to take