You got two options here. So which one are you going to choose? hmmmm?

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      Yes they are; Because they small businesses, which actually pay their employees a living wage and don’t have the buying power of the big supermarkets.

      Even then, all the IGA locals around me and larger IGAs on surrounding towns are still cheaper than Safeway and Coles.

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        idk how much they pay their workers but I suspect that since iga is the distributor, they get most of the cut. I’m not faithful to any chain anyways, the post is mostly a joke

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        3 months ago

        which actually pay their employees a living wage

        This isn’t my experience with Foodland or IGA - they generally only employ teenagers so they can pay them the under 18 rates.

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          We must be going to different stores on different days.

          All the Local IGAs in my area employ single mums and more mature staff members. The only young employees I see are family members of the owners.

          The big IGA in a nearby town employs the same demographics of staff members; they even have a professional Butcher on staff (and they have excellent value cuts of meat) (I used to deliver for a butcher when I was younger and have seen some dodgy butchers and some overpriced dodgy butchers and some excellent butchers.)

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        3 months ago

        Safeway! There’s a name I haven’t heard in about 10 years. Are there still any Safeways that haven’t turned into Woolies out there?

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          Sorry. I am old and they will always be “Safeway” to me. I know that they are called Woolworths, but I can’t get that name into my head.