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...She cites, for example, QuikTrip, an Oklahoma-based gas and convenience store chain that has strong financial performance and high wages, where the typical starting salary for clerks is $40,000 per year....
...“People have smiles on their faces when they’re filling up their tanks,” says Mike Thornburgh, of the US fuel and convenience store chain QuikTrip. “They’re coming in happy.”...
...The atmosphere outside the burnt-out husk of the QuikTrip petrol station was celebratory on Thursday night....
...Most of the crowd dispersed towards the burnt-out QuikTrip petrol station that has become the centre of protests following the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown shortly after he was in the store....
...At one point, near the burnt-out shell of a QuikTrip petrol station that had been torched on the first night of rioting, a shirtless young man who had spent the day screaming aggressively at passers-by ran...
...The author focuses on four low-cost retailers in the US that treat employees well: Costco, the discount retailer, Trader Joe’s, a food store, Mercadona, the Spanish grocer, and QuikTrip, a petrol retailer...
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