Yup that is the gist of it. Supermarkets have been doing it for years:
Donate blah to end child hunger at checkout?
Meanwhile, 23 percent of their employees are on food stamps.
Just like tipping culture in restaurants. Restaurants don’t want to pay their workers. So you do it. In fact, you’re a bad person if you don’t!
It’s good there are union movements going on in the states, bloodied though they are, unions are demonstrably the single most effective tool in securing fair pay.