For all you Walmart haters out there...

Check it out.  Their lower prices help poor and middle class urban types like me afford healthy food.  People like me who lived in an urban area that had nothing but Whole Foods, posh personal shopping services, fancy caterers and 7-11s understood this, but now there is a published study on it.

See for yourself. 

haha, hg

right, that is what I am saying-sarcasm

It just makes me laugh, because I don't know how else to react to the fact that the exact same people who would judge and criticize others for not eating vegetables or whole food or exercising are the exact same people who would criticize others for trying to buy fruits and vegetables and exercise equipment from Walmart.   It's like you just can't win with some people.  I just think some people want to judge and be critical instead of letting the rest of us non-prefect people do the best we can.

haha

have a nice life.  hope everything goes perfectly

The reason you are poor is because Walmart has employed everyone in china instead of employing you.

Buy canadian!  YEAH BABY!

WTH? Sersiously? Where did that come from?

Does. not. compute.

I don't think we are judging, betty.  You obviously started this thread to try to get WalMart haters to see the light.  You even named the thread "for all you walmart haters out there" so of course you are going to get the Walmart haters on your thread. 

We have not criticized...only given our opinions, which happen to differ from yours.

Wow, bitter much betty?

I'll say this. I buy my fruits and veggies largely from my local Safeway, or from my local farmer's market. Can we say cheap organic goods anyone?

I don't buy from Wal-Mart for ethical reasons, and also, because I've never lived in an area that allowed one. Too many Mom and Pop stores around that would be crushed under Wal-Mart's greedy butt.

I am all for trying the best you can, but there's better ways to do what you want to do than to succumb to Wal-Mart. Farmer's Markets, growing your own veggies, a community farm, local markets that buy from local farmers, etc,. You don't HAVE to shop at Whole Foods. And you have more options than Wal-Mart.

Things aren't just black and white. There's a whole huge gray area where most of us live. We're not perfect like you seem to think.

I just have certain ethical guidelines that make Wal-Mart out of question. So, I figure out other ways to get what I need and want. I garden, buy things when they're on sale only, or buy from local markets.

Not that hard to think outside the box.

haha-frothbeast!  :)

I grow my food because of walmart.

I ate 1/2 a cabbage here at work today.  I sewed it, I cultivated it, I covered it (to keep the bugs off).  then I ate it while it was still screaming.

mmmmmm  non-trucked food!

lmao frothbeast!!

Frothbeast, you speak the truth. America is moving to a service only economy. It's obvious that it's a bad idea when you see the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots. It's sad to hear my Aunt say that maybe she should follow her job to India because at least they have jobs there. I'm sick to see a woman who has worked for twenty years at a Mom and Pop store lose her job, be unable to find anything -- and I mean anything -- besides working as a cashier at Wal-Mart because that's all that is left in her town. It's disgusting.

But you reap what you sow, I suppose. And these small towns are economically dying out. Why? Because they wanted to pay ten cents less for their cheap Nike knockoffs.

duh nasuoni.

I'm not a complete moron.  Thanks for explaining to me that the world is not black and white.  -sarcasm

Did you actually research the vegetables at the farmer's market?  It turrns out that where I live, the vegetables at the farmer's market are the same, far away grown, pesticide covered produce marketed as organic and local.  haha

You just can't win sometimes!

Excuse me while I eat my Walmart bread now.

Mmm, delicious~~  ;)

haha

okay, it appears that SSRN is one of those sites where the authors pay to publish their studies.  not exactly a hallmark of good science, and not exactly a peer-reviewed journal.

i'm sure walmsrt is thrilled to be able to brag about "published studies" supporting their policies.

duh betty, that would be why I only buy from one specific grower that I know where everything is grown, and their reputation.

And why I wash everything I eat quite thoroughly (including everything I grow on my own).

Thanks for trying to make me look stupid when in fact you just helped me prove my point further.

right, because you can read my mind and know my intentions...

especially over the internet...

enjoy the produce nasuoni

I am contemplating getting a mortar and pestal and grinding my wheat so i can make bread.

Here in canada, the veggies and fruits pesticides are regulated.  for the most part they are tighter regulations than in the 'glorious' US of A.  I still choose to grow my veggies, and I have no matter where I have lived.

You don't have to eat pesticides, but you might have to eat some bugs.....

Anyways.  Walmart does not provide any service that I am interested in.  They most certainlywould buy my cabbage, and I wouldn't sell it to them if they gave me sex.

hahaha!!!

frothbeast you are too funny

mmm bugs, could use some protein to go with my walmart bread  ;)

I agree with #49 . They went for the 20 cent discount, and in return someone loses their job and lively hood (and if not specifically them, maybe someone in a similar situation).

I personally think it is short-term thinking, like shopping at Walmart that is destroying our country.

Just wanted to say that my Mother is currently in a Class Action Law Suit against Wal-Mart.  She would work 12 hour days without a break, though the Wal-Mart computer would clock her out for a 30 minute lunch break.  She didn't actually get to take that lunch break but she was docked for it.

So enjoy your cheap bread. 

Aren't you in Canada jewels? 

right because it's also my fault that your mom did not take her lunch break

because I am the source of all things bad in the USA

sarcasm

I'm American. 

Every time I see garlic or apples made in china, I think to myself, why would I buy something I can grow here?   That food has the potential of being placed up the anus of some angry foreign worker, then shipped accross the seas to infect me with listeria or ecoli, etc.

My garlic's worst trait would perhaps be cat urine/spray.

My apples have bugs from not being sprayed, but parts of the apple taste good!