In 1980, I made $23,409 working at a grocery store

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88. Started part-time as a cashier at age 16

Cashiers made $4.25 an hour. After graduating from HS, I went full-time as a Stock Clerk. When I left to join the Navy, I was making $11.40 an hour. We tried to not get overtime, because they hated paying it. Usually only happened if our delivery trucks were late, or we were busy and had to go up front to help with bagging, or ringing up groceries.

One of the stores I worked at was in a low income area. A lot of Food Stamp, or ADFC folks were our customers.

Funny, but I always considered that those folks paid my wages. Majority white area too.

Some of those old houses and duplexes in that area are going for over $600K now.

Just looked it up. The average hourly wage for a grocery store stock clerk in Ohio in 2025 is $16.67 an hour.

In 1980, I made the equivalent of $93K a year in today's money. The same job today is making $34.5K a year.

Tell me again how the problem with America is "gubmint" spending.

It almost makes you fucking cry when you realize what's been done to the American worker.

Makes you fucking angry when you realize that a lot of them did it to themselves.