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Industry committee Which one would you be referring to?
July 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Sarah Davis
Industry committee His note to the public...?
July 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Sarah Davis
Industry committee Yes, I generally read all of his statements. I don't know which specific one—
July 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Sarah Davis
Industry committee No, I don't think so. I think what I was saying is that we paid the two dollars during those crazy times at the beginning of the pandemic, and we're now through, back to a new normal, so it seemed like an appropriate time to end it.
July 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Sarah Davis
Industry committee We independently decided to up the two dollars per hour. It seemed like the appropriate amount. It's worth about 15%, so we thought that was an appropriate amount of premium pay for our colleagues.
July 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Sarah Davis
Industry committee As I said before, the reason I'm saying we would want to do it in concert with the government and with the unions is that it can't be done by just one company, by just one industry. We're competing against large multinationals, large e-commerce companies, so it's just not feasibl
July 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Sarah Davis
Industry committee I think the key that we're talking about is that when you think about the grocery sector in general, we work and we exist on very, very low.... About 2% is the bottom line margin. When you think about a hundred dollars' worth of groceries, two cents falls to the bottom line, 98¢
July 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Sarah Davis
Industry committee I'm saying that's not the case.
July 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Sarah Davis
Industry committee In some cases, yes; in some cases, no. As I mentioned, we did shut down some departments in order to focus on the essentials like food. In the case of Shoppers Drug Mart, we wouldn't have sold beauty during that time. As I mentioned, we did shut down some of our service cases. It
July 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Sarah Davis
Industry committee I have the same answer. As an enterprise, it's no. There might be some independent businesses that are affiliated with us that could have if they had the right circumstance.
July 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Sarah Davis
Industry committee We have multiple union agreements, so there are different pay scales between the different banners, yes.
July 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Sarah Davis
Industry committee As I highlighted a couple of times, we are not putting profits ahead of our people. We put in tens of millions of dollars for safety precautions in our stores. I think we publicly said in our Q1 call that we did see some buying up in Q1, but we would see large costs that would co
July 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Sarah Davis
Industry committee I think there are two questions here, and it does look as though we're out of time. I don't know if you want me to answer or not.
July 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Sarah Davis
Industry committee Okay, so there are two things we're talking about here. One is the pandemic pay premium, which was put in place on a temporary basis, and it was communicated that way to all of our colleagues. The second is about minimum wage and the living wage. As I highlighted in my opening re
July 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Sarah Davis
Industry committee I think the information that's in our proxy circular is around $6.8 million.
July 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Sarah Davis