Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

The Trader Joe’s lesson: How to pay a living wage and still make money in retail

The average American cashier makes $20,230 a year, a salary that in a single-earner household would leave a family of four living under the poverty line. But if he works the cash registers at QuikTrip, it's an entirely different story.

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