[swatow]

It is completely clear to me when I go shopping that Walmart employees are (1) older, (2) less attractive, and (3) less well spoken than employees at Trader Joes or Starbucks. The difference is pretty big.

Your intentional exaggeration aside, I would be very surprised if most Trader Joe's and Starbucks employees didn't have some college.

To the extent that there is classism, it is in the people at Trader Joe's and Starbucks doing hiring, and the customers that these companies cater to when they making these hiring decisions. Not me for documenting the facts.