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Hortensis

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35. Yes. Allowing the minimum wage to remain far below subsistence level.
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 05:47 PM
Aug 2017

As for prices, they're often not as cheap as they seem. Husband retired without a pension, so we do some careful shopping there. Careful.

Drain a can of their store tuna brand and turn it into a measuring cup, do the same with standard brands sold at other chain markets, and check what you've purchased. You get a lot less fish, more liquid and more "fish sludge," so that the real price is about the same or more, but not less. (And at that the standard brands are doing the same thing, just not as bad. I now buy expensive brands that are solidly packed with better quality solid tuna and cost the same or less than the cheap stuff.) Canned beans similarly with gushy beans, instead of firm, too much liquid, and the bottom of the can often full of bean sludge.

I haven't tried almost all of their "deli" and "bakery" items because what I did try was really bad. The potato salad I purchased in a hurry was very high in gooshy liquid filler and with definite chemical taste, by far the worst I'd ever come across. I tried again a year or so later at another WalMart, largely out of curiosity as a test but also not wanting to cook, and threw it away. Too bad to try to dress up.

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Nice sentiments, but you still won't catch me at a Walmart! Va Lefty Aug 2017 #1
A lot of people shop there out of economic necessity DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #2
The assumption that it is cheaper volstork Aug 2017 #12
I like Aldi. Their presence is L A is almost null. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #14
I comparison shop. For what I buy, WalMart is often, tho not always, the cheapest. Honeycombe8 Aug 2017 #15
WalMart is cheap because taxpayers subsidize its employees More_Cowbell Aug 2017 #20
I don't have much choice. There's not much else. Honeycombe8 Aug 2017 #29
Unforunately true jl_theprofessor Aug 2017 #31
Yes. Allowing the minimum wage to remain far below subsistence level. Hortensis Aug 2017 #35
Yep. GoCubsGo Aug 2017 #21
Agree sarge43 Aug 2017 #25
Same here. LakeArenal Aug 2017 #26
Or like in my small town, very few options. GentryDixon Aug 2017 #33
Me neither and I agree, nice sentiments Happyhippychick Aug 2017 #5
I picket the store on Black Friday after Thanksgiving BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #8
Absolutely dead on! InAbLuEsTaTe Aug 2017 #19
Don't tell me what you believe... charliea Aug 2017 #34
Well, who'da thunk.... Walmart has a lot to atone for, but a tiny bit of credit today... hlthe2b Aug 2017 #3
I don't shop in Walmart but thanks katmondoo Aug 2017 #4
Any action that puts the Racist In Chief in a negative light is an action I embrace. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #6
Thanks Doug. lpbk2713 Aug 2017 #7
I truly like the sentiment. Weekend Warrior Aug 2017 #9
But he has yet to resign from 45's manufacturing council. nt DesertRat Aug 2017 #10
Reading his statement carefully - cwydro Aug 2017 #11
Yep leftstreet Aug 2017 #23
Does he care enough about his employees to pay a decent Luz Aug 2017 #13
I think almost all the grocery stores pay the same. Kroger's has a union, so pay is higher. Honeycombe8 Aug 2017 #30
A small and positive gesture. MontanaMama Aug 2017 #16
Yikes. Even his fellow oligarchs are deserting him. jalan48 Aug 2017 #17
Faint Damnation - Like A Snake Rebuking Another Snake packman Aug 2017 #18
Ditto n/t Kleveland Aug 2017 #22
Who are they thanking? PdxSean Aug 2017 #24
It's from a news letter for employees. mobeau69 Aug 2017 #27
Ah. Thanks. PdxSean Aug 2017 #36
"Let's make Trump's Council so small you can fit it in a bathroom." Hayduke Bomgarte Aug 2017 #28
Oh, and Waltons not fooled Aug 2017 #32
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