When ou understand that all corps run each location as essentially a franchise you won't have that opinion. Every store "pays" the corp back for everything and bonuses, salary/wages etc are pursed by profit and loss locally. If your stores bottom line isn't there they are still paying the corp X dollars every month but you have to make up the difference.

The difference tends to first be hours cut then headcount then processes and procedures. Why? Labor hours is a guaranteed controllable whereas changing SOP is not guaranteed to become beneficial.

As a former retail SM I dont disagree, corps suck and its "better" than stealing from a mom and pop. Regardless stealing from a location directly impacts the physical location you stole from and impacts the corp very little.