Need another reason to hate Walmart? Here ya go...

[Buckeneye]

Let's see. Income disparity in the U.S.

Walmart sells lower quality food and most of it
Including high frutcose syrup. Lower income families
Eating shitty food... Lack of exercise.

Gee. That took a lot to study.

 

[shetuck]

Let's see. Income disparity in the U.S.

Walmart sells lower quality food and most of it
Including high frutcose syrup. Lower income families
Eating [Mark May]ty food... Lack of exercise.

Gee. That took a lot to study.

 

[DubCoffman62]

Let's see. Income disparity in the U.S.

Walmart sells lower quality food and most of it
Including high frutcose syrup. Lower income families
Eating [Mark May]ty food... Lack of exercise.

Gee. That took a lot to study.

It's a conspiracy and I'm all for it

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euqf_UKFtgY"]Dead Kennedys - Kill The Poor (with lyrics) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[OHSportsFan]

Why do you think they have those fleets of Fat-Fucker Scooters at every Wal-Mart?

Roll Tide!

 

[Poe McKnoe]

About 10 years ago, I came across a chart in one of my wife's public health magazines showing the growth in obesity rates in the US going back to the 1960's. At about the same time, I was working on a project looking at the growth rate in retail chains such as Target and Walm*rt for a b-school case. It occured to me that that there's a correlation there and have, ever since, meant to actually try and directly correlelate those two data sets.

Well... it seems like a UNC prof has already undertaken that thread (except he's focused on Walm*rt Supercenters only, but the results are still, well... staggering.

http://ideas.repec.org/p/ris/uncgec/2009_003.html

These Supercenters also have a fresh food and produce department, but I doubt the majority of the their customers are willing (or knowledgable enough) to create healthy, nutritious meals. I don't blame it all on the Wal-Marts and even Super Krogers.

However, the movie "Food, Inc" also takes a look at the quality of the food being distributed in these and other chains. Driven by our fast food desire, meats are often of similar quality to that of McDonalds, etc, thanks to the cost cutting that corporate America is so fond of.

 

[shetuck]

These Supercenters also have a fresh food and produce department, but I doubt the majority of the their customers are willing (or knowledgable enough) to create healthy, nutritious meals. I don't blame it all on the Wal-Marts and even Super Krogers.

However, the movie "Food, Inc" also takes a look at the quality of the food being distributed in these and other chains. Driven by our fast food desire, meats are often of similar quality to that of McDonalds, etc, thanks to the cost cutting that corporate America is so fond of.

Correlation does not imply causation.

Paging Steve19...

 

[LordJeffBuck]

http://247wallst.com/2012/11/21/the-12-companies-paying-americans-the-least/

Sears, Target, McDonald's, YUM Brands, Walm*rt...

3.8 million so-called jobs!

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Jared Bernstein
Senior Fellow, Center on Budget & Policy Priorities
Washington, DC

Jules Bernstein
Partner, Bernstein & Lippsett, PC
Washington, DC

Wendy Chun-Hoon
DC Director, Family Values at Work
Silver Spring, MD

Cecilia Estolano
Partner, Estolano LeSar Perez Advisors, LLC
Los Angeles, CA

Laura A. Fortman
Executive Director, Frances Perkins Center
Newcastle, Maine

Elaise L. Fox
President, United Food and Commercial Workers, AFL-CIO, Local 1657
Birmingham, Alabama

Lilia Garcia-Brower
Executive Director, Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund
Los Angeles, CA

Jonathan Hiatt, Esq.
Chief of Staff and Executive Assistant to the President, AFL-CIO
Washington, D.C.

Lucille Logan
President, National Organization of Client Advocates
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Walter M. Meginniss, Jr. (Treasurer)
Attorney, Gladstein, Reif & Meginniss
New York, New York

Jim Sessions (Acting Chair)
East Tennesse Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice
Knoxville, Tennessee

Thomas Weeks, Esq.
Executive Director, Ohio State Legal Services Association
Columbus, Ohio

Cathy Wilkinson
Minimum Wage and Workers? Rights Campaign Community Activist
Wheeling, West Virginia

Think that there might be some bias from this Big Labor organization?

How many of those "so-called jobs" are held by high school kids and "retired" people who are looking for something to do?

What does a general manager for a McDonald's restaurant make per year?

You might want to did a little deeper before coming to any unfounded conclusions....

 

[Mike80]

I think, in honor of this thread, I am going to go to WalMart at some point.....just because.....

 

[shetuck]

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Think that there might be some bias from this Big Labor organization?

How many of those "so-called jobs" are held by high school kids and "retired" people who are looking for something to do?

What does a general manager for a McDonald's restaurant make per year?

You might want to did a little deeper before coming to any unfounded conclusions....

How did this turn into a debate about organized labor?

The "conclusion" I was pointing to has to do with the types of jobs our economy is creating. The "low" pay isn't as much a reflection of what companies pay for non-union jobs, rather than where the demand for jobs is coming from... which is the real issue, in my IMO.

As to how many high school kids or retired people, I don't know, but even if the proportion is as high as 10%, it doesn't seem relevant here...

 

[MaxBuck]

Again, the question I ask is, who is going to employ people with IQ between 75-100, and to do what? Till we find a way to employ these people with reasonably-paying jobs in the New Economy, we'll be saddled with fat, stupid, unemployed fucks who cost the earth to medicate and who will drag us down as a society.

Sorry to be so blunt, but tell me where I'm wrong.

 

[Bucklion]

Again, the question I ask is, who is going to employ people with IQ between 75-100, and to do what? Till we find a way to employ these people with reasonably-paying jobs in the New Economy, we'll be saddled with fat, stupid, unemployed [censored]s who cost the earth to medicate and who will drag us down as a society.

Sorry to be so blunt, but tell me where I'm wrong.

I suppose it all boils down to what "reasonably-paying" means. People raise families with custodial, manual labor, and other menial jobs all the time. Of course the type of wages they make don't allow for X-Boxes, Playstations, Kindles, Droid Razrs, flatscreens, and all the other stuff people think they are entitled to just because these days. You don't need a big brain to make an honest living...you just need to be willing to work hard and have a realistic impression of what kind of lifestyle you can live. Might that be why immigrant/migrant families, who often can't speak a word of English and perform "jobs Americans don't want to do", manage so well here? Perhaps they are the ones from that working class with the appropriate drive and perspective.

 

[Merih]

Might that be why immigrant/migrant families, who often can't speak a word of English and perform "jobs Americans don't want to do", manage so well here? Perhaps they are the ones from that working class with the appropriate drive and perspective.

This. 1000 times this.

People lose sight of long term gains for short term joys. Foreigners almost always have the only goal of being "my kids will do more, and will do it with an easier lifestyle than mine."

You're looking at the proof of it right here.

 

[Dryden]

Again, the question I ask is, who is going to employ people with IQ between 75-100, and to do what?

Does Scout pay their mods?

 

[Onebuckfan]

Who benefits from the Welfare State/Santa Claus Presidency I'll tell you who Sam Walton and his heirs..eventually pay the ENTITLED "POOR" and Walmart employees in Walmart dollars and leave the US dollar for the working people and the rest of the economy.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Foreigners almost always have the only goal of being "my kids will do more, and will do it with an easier lifestyle than mine."

That used to be the goal of most Americans up until a generation or so ago. I guess now that so many previous generations worked to make their offspring have easier lifestyles, we've reached the saturation point where the current generation's lifestyle is so easy it doesn't want to do shit...