• Seleni@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    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?

    • gamer@lemm.ee
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      9 days ago

      And the Walmart whose founders funded the Heritage Foundation

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      8 days 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).

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      9 days ago

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

  • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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    9 days 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.