Once again, I say it is not staff wages that gives retailers the most problems, it is the landlords who charge rent based on whatever maximum they can squeeze from the shop. There is so much concentration of ownership of shopping malls and high street locations in Canada, that all this money for rent and commercial leases go to the wealthy corporations - why try to run a business when the real profit is in land and rental ownership. The Oxford people, the Ivanhoe Cambridge people, the Bentalls, these are the real drivers of costs to small business owners. Do not blame the minimum wage workers - if these workers worked for free, the landlords would take that into account and raise rents still more.