[SkyPilot]

...a reduction in U.S. food stamp benefits, which has eaten into the budget of the retailer's core customer base.

Anyone who has shopped at WalMart knows the EBT Food Stamp crowd swipes away our tax dollars there.

[JSDude1]

They haven’t been known to treat their employees well either (trust me I worked there for a year and a half).

[Organic Panic]

[dragnet2]

The memo, marked "highly sensitive", asks Wal-Mart marketing managers to make sure they discount aging meat

I can smell aging meat. I always ask for the aging meat discount when I'm at Walmart.

[familyop]

Mr. Walton was the beginning of the end of main street keystoning (100% markups from costs of all items). Too bad, so sad. Waaaaa.

[familyop]

Although it doesn't have much to do with Walmart cutting costs in general, the issue of food stamps went around and around a little in the thread. Food stamp cuts do happen from time to time.

House Votes To Cut $40 Billion From Food Stamp Program - America's Newsroom (Fox News)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPLLvdSrwNg

Mutually Assured Destruction [Tues. debacle confirms growing rift between Dems & teachers unions.]
American Spectator ^ | 11/5/10 | RiShawn Biddle
"Congressional Democrats angered centrist school reformers, MoveOn.org-style progressives, and other party activists in August when they voted to ladle $10 billion in federal subsidies (funded from future cuts to the Food Stamp program) to school districts in order to stave off layoffs of 160,000 teachers (or just 2.6 percent of the nation's 6.2 million school employees). In turn, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers poured more than $40 million of their hefty campaign war chests (including more than $15 million by the NEA in the last weeks of the election season alone) to help the Democrats keep full control of Congress."

Obama signs emergency bill to halt teacher layoffs
yahoo ^
Posted on Tue Aug 10 17:38:51 2010
"The aid for the states is to be paid for mostly by closing a tax loophole used by multinational corporations and by reducing food stamp benefits for the poor...The legislation provides $10 billion to school districts to rehire laid-off teachers or to ensure that more teachers won't be let go before the new school year begins."

Three-quarters of Americans think teachers paid less than they really are
Washington Examiner ^ | 9-16-13 | ASHE SCHOW
"Seventy-four percent of Americans think teachers make less than they really do, according to a new poll from Rasmussen. The average teacher salary in America is $55,000 (upward of $75,000 in Chicago), but three quarters of Americans think teachers earn less than that. Over half of Americans (52 percent) believe teachers are paid too little."

The answer for many is to spend more time finding out how to become more self-sufficient for necessities like food, water heating and space heating--in general, studying to cut personal costs. Then learn to produce something of good use as a hobby for now. Then starve the B.

[sunrise_sunset]

WalMart has rapidly become ghetto and most of the workers there are ghetto. The US has a huge underclass and it’s on full display at WalMart. I’d rather pay 10% more and not deal with that. There are always few items you don’t need to buy.

[lucky american]

I haven't been to Walmart in years.We have a Super center store and I hate the fact you have to walk a mile while battling smelly, rude people to the back of the store to get milk, and walk a mile back to the front to find lines backed up . Too much hassle when I need to be somewhere else.

[sergeantdave]

Ordered a large item from Walmart’s online store. It arrived at my door in less than 48 hours. In perfect condition. Impressive.