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Dollar General
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revenue. Smaller store footprints compared
to dollar stores reduce property taxes and
the chains get tax subsidies from some
communities. Keeping prices and costs low
means hiring fewer workers without as many
hours.
Some stores may have just one employee
punched in at a time. This type of understaffing
creates the stores’ notoriously messy aisles
littered with unstocked merchandise boxes.
Inspectors with the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration have found merchandise
blocking fire extinguishers and tripping hazards
regularly created by blocked aisles. For this, and
other reasons, the agency has hit Dollar General
for more than $15 million in fines since 2017.
These are a roadmap for the dangerous and
tragic sitiations often read about in the news
lately. Combine all of this with lax security,
and it makes the stores a target for robberies
and violence on staff and customers. It is noted
here that Dollar General and Dollar Tree has
not invested in even basic safety features or
prevention.
So that was a lot to digest and I’m not
sure what it means to us here around Yoncalla
and in North Douglas or South Lane Counties.
I know that, as a community, we would always
like to have our choices and options open. We
do want convenience and competitive pricing,
as well as abundance in style and choices of
goods. We don’t want to live in a food desert
and we want our establishments to respect
our community, provide working wages and
environments and be a worthwhile neighbor in
the community.
Stay tuned till next month for part 2,
where I will take a deep dive into some of the
topics mentioned here and some information
for consumers and neighbors to contemplate,
regarding OSHA and Employee complaints,
as well as more on security and in depth look at
the effects on communities.