Retail Trade · Charlotte, NC
Compare Foods Supermarket
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (2010–2026), the Wage and Hour Division recovered $7,968 in back wages owed to 41 affected workers across 2 wage-theft cases.
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- OSHA penalties
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- Violations cited
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- OSHA inspections
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- Back wages owed
Compare Foods Supermarket in Charlotte, NC has been the subject of 0 OSHA workplace inspections and 0 citations since 2010, according to enforcement records from the U.S. Department of Labor. The employer also has 2 Wage and Hour Division (WHD) cases on record, covering Fair Labor Standards Act enforcement. All enforcement data below is sourced from the DOL public enforcement databases at data.dol.gov.
Compliance score
- B Wage & hour compliance: $8K in back wages owed across 2 WHD cases ($4K per case), vs. national p10 $2K (best) / p90 $58K (worst) among 91,622 employers with a WHD case on file.
Channels are separate federal datasets: a dimension marked not applicable simply has no record in that dataset for this employer, not a good or bad score.
Compare Foods Supermarket in the Retail Trade enforcement ledger
WHD back-wage recoveries in this sector place Compare Foods Supermarket at rank #3,468 of 8,492 employers ($7,968 owed). Compare Foods Supermarket carries no OSHA penalty in this extract but ranks #3,468 of 8,492 Retail Trade employers on WHD back wages ($7,968).
How Compare Foods Supermarket Compares
Compare Foods Supermarket in Charlotte, NC has no OSHA inspection on record with PlainWorker. An absence of federal inspection activity is not the same as a clean safety record, it typically means this employer has not yet been selected for inspection under OSHA's targeting programs. By comparison, East Side Smoke in Houston, TX has 0 OSHA inspections on record.
No OSHA penalty has been assessed against Compare Foods Supermarket to date. The Retail Trade sector average runs $2,898 per employer.
Wage & Hour Findings
The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found that Compare Foods Supermarket owed $7,968 in back wages to 41 employees across 2 cases and 47 violations. WHD enforces federal labor laws including the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), covering minimum wage, overtime pay, and child labor standards.
Industry Safety Context: Retail Trade
How Compare Foods Supermarket compares to the Retail Trade sector, which has 12,945 employers tracked by PlainWorker.
| Metric | Compare Foods Supermarket | Industry Avg |
|---|---|---|
| Inspections | 0 | 0.8 |
| Violations | 0 | 1.7 |
| Total Penalty | $0 | $2,898 |
| Avg Penalty per Inspection | $0 | $3,571 |
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What to do with this record
Use Compare Foods Supermarket's enforcement history as one data point, not the whole picture.
- A single employer's record can look unusual in isolation. Compare Compare Foods Supermarket against Western Motors, a similarly-sized employer in the same sector, before drawing conclusions. Compare side-by-side
- See whether Compare Foods Supermarket's inspection and penalty record is typical for Retail Trade or an outlier against the sector's own average. View the Retail Trade sector
- Compare Foods Supermarket also carries $7,968 in Wage and Hour Division back-wages, a separate enforcement track from OSHA safety violations. How wage-theft enforcement works
Figures reflect closed OSHA and WHD federal enforcement actions on record (2010–2026); not every workplace issue results in an inspection or investigation.
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Data as of 2026. Source: U.S. Department of Labor (OSHA, WHD).
Source: OSHA Enforcement Data
Inspection and violation records from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Department of Labor, covering the period 2010–2026. Includes inspection dates, violation types (serious, willful, repeat, other-than-serious), and penalty amounts. Penalties shown are current assessed amounts and may differ from original citations due to settlement, contest, or reduction.
Source: Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
Compliance actions from the WHD, covering enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), including minimum wage, overtime, and child labor violations. Back wages represent amounts owed to affected employees as determined by WHD investigations.
Employer Matching
Employers are matched across OSHA and WHD datasets by name, state, and city. Employers included in PlainWorker have 2 or more OSHA inspections or $1,000+ in WHD back wages. Data is updated monthly from data.dol.gov.