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I don't think this thread is about WalMart anymore.

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Hey everyone......take a chill pill......;) I shop in Wal-Mart coz i like it, it doesn't make any of us a bad person, nobody on here is any better than the next......certainly not me anyway. Moondevil is a close friend of mine and i can honestly say that she is such a nice person that i cannot imagine her having a bad tone!!!!!!!

Does it really come down to morals or class when it comes down to where you do your food shopping? If this is the case it's a mucher sadder world we live in than i thought:confused:

Merry christmas to everyone...:wub:

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gee, thanks for equating fat people with ugly, underclass and pustulating.
:mad:

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Should i mention then that i am off to Wal*mart today to buy a Black and Decker griddle for my hubby as an xmas present ..($24.88)

Walking for 30 mins each way in -28 for a bloody xmas present.

P.S. i can not find this griddle anywhere and i am NOT paying $80 to buy something similar from The Bay @ Bayshore and only a 5 min walk

(no i dont have a car, so can't check out canadian tire and those other places .. bummer)

:p

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The -28 is windchill in Ottawa.....you are a dedicated spouse to do that. Is that the Wal Mart at Lincoln Fields?

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Walmart is not a particularly nice place to shop in my experience. It's almost useless for food shopping unless you eat a lot of junk food as there are no fruit and vegetables.

The stuff we bought there in the first few days of being in Canada is generally rubbish, but it wasn't WM own brand stuff, so the same crap is available elsewhere.

A priori, there is nothing wrong with buying stuff made in China. Trade is the best way for countries to develop and bring their people out of poverty. However, that doesn't mean that people in dev.count. need to be exploited, hence a good retailer would ensure this doesn't happen.

I remember visiting an ASDA in the North of England in a poorer town, although not dirt poor by any standards. Typical workers terrace housing etc. This was about three years ago and I was staggered by the size of the people plodding around and the quantity of lycra/spandex leggings. I did notice this. Not a pleasant sight. Of course, other ASDAs in other places could be better. My sister shops at that one.

A lot of the issues really are whether people on a low budget spend their money wisely. Would they be better off paying more for decent food rather than buying a lot of junk from Walmart? I've never really studied this, but do wonder....

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I wouldn't bother hun..........it is a question that will never be answered before you die, generations will be pondering this for years to come i am sure;)

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Wal*Mart is opening "super centres" across Canada. These stores are full grocery stores along with all the requisite fresh vegetables as well as having all the regular Wal*Mart stuff. There is only one of these type stores in the entire Calgary area so I would not expect them to be common in other locales either.

My issue with Wal*Mart is their business practice.

I watched a very interesting show a number of years ago about a relatively small supplier who was hoping to get a Wal*Mart contract and was ecstatic when he did get it.

However Wal*Mart started to put the screws to him asking for more than he could supply at first. So he hired more people and ramped up production, then Wal*Mart demanded lower and lower prices fully aware he couldn't do it. Eventually they put him out of business. They just moved on to the next supplier and did the same to him.

That and how they treat their own employees really turns me off.

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Poor people are often fat, only very poor people with hardly any food to eat are thin. Cheap food is fattening. Think of the things you feed cattle/pigs up with and then see how much of those are in a poor persons diet. You also have to factor in education and knowledge of what foods are good for you, beans lentils are cheap certainly but isnt egg and chips easier to make and more readily accepted?

You pay for decent food but it doesn't fill your belly as easily as a mound of spuds and mince. Maybe you don't have enough money to pay for the electricity to boil beans.

A weeks worth of nutritious food for a two adult two child family costs around $145 in Ontario. That doesn't include cleaning products, shampoo, loo roll,etc etc. Add in rent of $1000 a month and you are looking at outgoings of $20,000 a year, plus you need clothes, transport, school supplies. You need to be earning $30,000 a year to eat heathily.

It ain't simple.

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Totally agree.......it ain't that simple. I have found it a lot easier to go back 20 odd years and i make all my own stuff from scratch. Wal-Mart supply all my baking needs at the price i want to pay. I also then have more of a say about what is going into my families diet.:p

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This thread has run its course - the orginal subject matter died long ago