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Sobeys was founded in Stellarton, Nova Scotia by John W. Sobey, a former carpenter, in 1907 as a meat delivery business. In 1921, Sobey's son, Frank, became a partner of the company and added six new grocery stores serving the Pictou County and Antigonish County regions. In 1946, Sobey's opened its first supermarket in New Glasgow after ...
The company hiked employee pay in March 2020 for the coronavirus pandemic, [108] upping wages by $2 per hour. [109] [110] The union Unifor criticized Loblaws for removing the pandemic pay bump in June 2020. [111] Despite revenue growth, in July 2020, Loblaws reported that profits were down due to expenditures related to the pandemic. [112]
On March 16, 2021, it was announced that Empire Company, parent company of Sobeys, would buy a 51% stake in Longo's and its Grocery Gateway e-commerce business (which was acquired by Longo's in 2004) [11] for $357 million. [12] The deal, which closed in May 2021, includes a clause allowing Sobeys' share to increase in future years.
In a blow to Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub, a New York judge on Thursday ruled to allow the implementation of the minimum pay rate of $18 per hour for New York City’s food delivery workers. The ...
IGA, Inc., is a franchised chain of grocery stores that operates in more than 41 countries. Unlike chain stores, IGA franchises are independently owned and operated. Many of these stores operate in small-town markets and belong to families that manage them. IGA was founded in the United States as the Independent Grocers Alliance in 1926.
Stephen Brashear/Getty Images. Boeing's new tentative labor contract offers a 25% increase to Seattle employees over four years. Some union members are unsatisfied with the new contract, which ...
Now, Amazon will do just that. Over the next year, Amazon will dedicate nearly $1 billion to increasing the average wages of its warehouse and transportation workers from about $18 to $19 per hour ...
According to Bloomberg, the company has increased the pay of some of its retail workers, including sales staff, Genius Bar support personnel and senior hourly workers, by as much as 10 percent ...