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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Walmart, the company that refuses to pay a living wage and has their employees sign up for food stamps? Walmart, the company that runs other businesses out of town?

That Walmart?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

And the Walmart whose founders funded the Heritage Foundation

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Oh no. Anyway...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon had also warned about consumer confidence during a Feb. 27 talk at the Economic Club of Chicago. He noted that “budget-pressured” customers were reducing their spending and showing “stressed behaviors.”

“You can see that the money runs out before the month is gone, you can see that people are buying smaller pack sizes at the end of the month,” McMillon said.

Walmart declined Fortune’s request for comment.

Gee i wonder why they didn’t wanna comment on the economy nosediving in the last three months.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Have they tried Raising Prices while Lowering Food Quantity?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Who would have thought that while "inflation" doing shrinkflation would have been a good idea?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

How about quality? The cheddar cheese is fake at walshart near me. It's clearly a mix of real cheddar and plasti-cheese (vegetable oil, emulsifier, etc).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Our greed is killing us.. 🎻

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Our" greed? Please paint with a smaller brush...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Their"*, sorry about that I was coming from "their" perspective. You're right

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

'sall good ...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The cynicism in me is telling me stories like this will ultimately be the catalyst of change. Corporations have everything to lose if there's a collapse of society, so it's in their interest to--at the very least--keep things on the rails.