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“I never had a blood pressure
problem until October,” Nicoletti
said. “It was only caused by the
fact that they were taking people
from my store and bringing them
to another.”
Eventually, the stress was so bad
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that Nicoletti developed muscle
spasms, he said. He left in the fall,
having lasted about seven months.
Nicoletti said he couldn’t help
but do the salary math that bothered Hughey so much. He said his
pay often broke down to a little
more than $8 per hour, less than
minimum wage in some states.
Store
Manager
Sharon Dixon
restocks
shelves at
a Family
Dollar store in
Norcross, Ga.,
in 2009.