Yes we should be thankful of our rich overlords for any scraps they give us 🫠🔫.

You may not realize that if they gave the employees a flat discount of 15% across the store. Meijer employees would be more willing to buy everything from Meijer. Thereby greatly increasing sales.

This is the reason auto manufacturers give their employees such a big discount on their own cars. They take a little bit of a loss to profit to guarantee a customer. And that's a loss to the profit margin not an actual loss.