be me

work at grocery store

being human I must eat food

buy groceries at the store I work at

Some commenter on Lemmy

"Erm... This is effectively slavery!"

whatthefuck.webp

Why are people like this.

Reply to reply since you blocked me lol:

Look I'm as lefty as the next lemmite, but we have to turn money into goods. That's how money works. Its just a representation of useful goods as currency.

If I have to lose the money either way to eat, then it really doesn't matter where the money goes. And generally an employee gets a discount. To your point, they're probably still making a profit off food purchases but its still a better deal than without it.

My mom works at Walmart and always bought most of our groceries there because she got a 15% employee discount. I'm sure Walmart was still making money off groceries (minus produce) unless they gave like a 50% discount.

My current job offers an employee discount of "cost plus 6%" so they aren't making money off me buying our own products, but they're not losing anything either.