I worked at Woodwards downtown Edmonton on the food floor. My buddy got a job in menswear making 3.07 while I got a job on the food floor for 4.40 quite a difference really, in those days. He had to buy a suit; you can't sell suits if you don't wear one, it was quite an expenditure. I also had to adhere and weigh in on atire; mine however, was I think if I recall correctly, dark blue pants and a blue shirt. Not too big an expenditure.
At the time, the food floor must have been more proffitable; I remember one of my co workers working at parcel pickup [where all the groceries went across I think it might have been 111 ave via conveyer belt] getting 7.80 an hour and only keeping the job because he had "seniority" I asked hem [i think it might have been [76], tell me more, about this... seniority
But even then [no, seniority didn't mean you get a seniorita or anything like that, it mean't that if you stayed with Woodwards or Shell, or Johnson Controls and invested with them for life, that...
[edit] you had already stayed too long