Episode 127: Main Street Retailers Find Themselves In The Middle of National Gun Debate

Unfortunately, divisive national politics have come to the front door of the restaurant and retail industry again this week with the tragedies in Dayton, El Paso and Mississippi. How those companies respond will be under tremendous scrutiny and draw severe criticism no matter what they do or say or don’t do or say. We’ll take a look at the terrible choices companies face when events like these unfold in their business. And companies are increasingly competing for the best employees by bolstering benefit packages with many embracing tuition assistance and even some outright picking up the entire tab for a four-year education. We’ll take a look at what that’s doing to the employee marketplace and what political implications it could have. And the industry finds itself in another minimum wage conversation in New York, this time over conflicting data on the impacts of the city’s high minimum wage. We’ll try to sort out what all that means. We’ll talk about those stories and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.