Should Walmart be terrified by this Idaho supermarket?

Walmart claims that if they paid their workers more, they wouldn’t be able to keep their prices so low. Most recently Walmart made those arguments when the city council in Washington, D.C. was considering a living wage bill that would force Walmart to pay its workers $12.50 per hour instead of the D.C. minimum wage of $8.25. When the bill passed the council, Walmart said it would abandon plans for proposed stores in the city if the bill was signed by the mayor.

But do low-prices have to mean low wages or poor benefits for workers? Time points to one Idaho-based supermarket, WinCo Foods, with about 100 stores in the western United States that’s challenging that claim. It’s able to beat Walmart’s prices and treats workers well. So how does it keep prices so low?

By Tyler Falk

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