The US Grocery, Drug and Discount Store Corps Had Total Stock Buybacks of $55.5 Bil in the First Three Years of the Trump Administration (2017-2019), Which Generally Helped Immensely Their Company Stock Prices and the Wealth of Their Executives. But Just How Have These Companies Helped Their Employees Who Have Been Paid Meagerly and Risking Their Lives in This Pandemic War-Like Work Environment. The US Congress Shouldn't Give a Dime of Additional US Taxpayer Money to Bail Out US Companies of All Sizes Until These Companies Step Up to the Plate To Better Protect Their Employees and Also Reward Them With Healthy Combat Pay Incentives.

From SEC filings, the below table shows the annual stock buybacks of many popular publicly-held US grocery, drug and discount store chains for each of the three most recent fiscal years.

				Stock
	Stock	Stock	Stock	Buybacks
US Grocery, Drug and Discount Store Corps	Buybacks	Buybacks	Buybacks	Three Years
Stock BuyBacks	FYE 2019	FYE 2018	FYE 2017	Combined
	mils $	mils $	mils $	mils $
Walmart	5,717	7,410	8,296	21,423
Walgreens Boots Alliance	4,160	5,228	5,220	14,608
Target	1,565	2,124	1,046	4,735
CVS Health	-	-	4,361	4,361
The Kroger Company	465	2,010	1,633	4,108
Dollar General	1,200	1,007	580	2,787
Costco Wholesale	247	328	469	1,044
Burlington Stores	323	229	290	842
Sprouts Farmers Market Inc	176	258	203	637
Big Lots	55	112	166	333
Casey's Stores	37	215	48	300
Dollar Tree	200	-	-	200
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings	67	19	2	88
Ollie's Bargain Outlet Holdings	40	-	-	40
Tuesday Morning	-	-	23	23
Village Super Market	1	1	4	6
Whole Foods Market	-	-	2	2
National Growers by Village Cottage	-	1	-	1
PriceSmart	-	-	-	-
Rite Aid	-	-	-	-
Trxade Group	-	-	-	-
GNC Holdings	-	-	-	-
Grocery Outlet Holding Corp	-	-	-	-
Weis Markets	-	-	-	-
Ingles Markets	-	-	-	-
iFresh	-	-	-	-
Totals	14,253	18,942	22,343	55,538