'There is a ton of shit BEFORE the net.' Coined by a divorce Attorney who specialized in high net couples.
Walmart has three privately owned (Walmart 7) companies BEFORE Walmart Stores Inc. Procurement, distribution, and transportation which all have profit making before the sale to stores.
McDonalds franchisees net profit doesn't include principal pay, or contributions to retirement, trust, etc., raising the net profit into the 15% to 20% net.
FYI, if you are a business person and you're not making 20% net, including pay, contributions, etc., then why are you in business?
Your question doesn't make sense. Most businesses don't make 20% net. So apparently that isn't an important factor to most businesses.
The entire question is irrelevant, because your profit from doing business, your wage that you take home from the business, is not determine by margin alone. It's determined by margin on sales. If I have only a 2% net profit margin, and I'm making $5 Million in sales, that's $100,000 in my pay check. I think I could handle making $100,000 a year.
The idea I would give that up because I wasn't making the arbitrary 20% margin some nit wit on the internet came up with, seems rather stupid to me.
Back to McDonald's. We have a fiscal budget from a Franchise McDonald's. I don't see those things you listed, on there. So can you prove your claim?
And as for Walmart... that was kind of my point.
Each Walmart is a separate business. Each service of Walmart is a separate business. When you say Walmart has all these profits.... that's not a monolithic company.
Each section of Walmart business, is a self contained business. They each have to make a profit of their own, or they go out of business. Thus each employee that wants a raise, can't get a raise unless the specific business they are employed by has the money to give those raises. You can't use the profits of Walmart HQ, to justify Employee of Walmart Store A, getting a raise. Because Store A doesn't have access to the money of Walmart HQ.
That's why when the minimum wage went up, the average number of employees per Walmart store went down. The average number of employees at a Walmart went from 360 in 2006 (before the minimum wage went up), to 290 in 2010 (after the minimum wage went up).
Even though during that time, sales were going up overall.
So I don't know what you think your claim means.