Why do companies like Argos fail to pay the minimum wage?

Debenhams, John Lewis and Monsoon have all been named and shamed by HMRC

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This morning Argos became the latest household name to be "named and shamed" by HMRC for failing to pay tens of thousands of staff the legal minimum wage.

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