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Originally Posted by Water Lily
Do you seriously think WalMart, Aldi, Costco, or Kroger are any better?
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Not really, and I don't shop there either. But Costco is an interesting case because they DON"T have outrageous personal profits - the CEO limits his pay and pays employees better than average.
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Look at the junk they sell and push as healthy. They have an agenda, too: Keep those subsidized grains moving out of the store. Since their prices are lower than WF, they can market more "healthy" junk to poor people and struggling working-class families. WF can market their pricey food/agenda to others. It's all the same game. Retail is about marketing for profit, whether it's shoes or grapes, no retail business is immune, or they cease to exist.
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Well that is one point of view. There do exist other retailers, who as well as making a living in profit, include other human values such as how they treat people. But these other kind of retailers never get hugely big - because the only way you can get hugely big is by being ruthless, taking more than your share. (my opinion)
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Our own US government and 99% of the medical industry has a huge agenda and is pushing a near vegetarian/lowfat diet on us.
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It do seem that way.
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Short of growing my own veggies
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Really easy in LC amounts - porch grow box, anyone?
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and raising livestock, I don't have very many choices if I want to stay healthy. I shop mostly at Farmer's Markets. But I also have to shop at WF, because my WF has grass fed meat and wild fish, unlike most supermarkets around here. We've made many many sacrifices in order to be able to buy healthy food.
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There's US Wellness meats, mail-order. But I hear you - investing in healthy food is no where near convenient or cheap.
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WF isn't perfect by a long shot. But they aren't any worse than all the others. It's all a racket.
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Oh, as this is hot air anyway, and since this is strictly opinion, I think I'll stick to, they ARE worse. Because they pretend to be concerned about anything other than profit, when they aren't. At least the Walmarts are frank about it - you want to shop for price and don't care about sources, they will give you price from any sources. A clean deal. They don't hire interior designers and have expensive lighting and events and promotions of Fuhrman and then pass all that on to customers.
It's fine to dismiss me as a crackpot on this one, I am okay with that.
I also disrespect Apple similarly is the leader of the robber-baron-haves against the have-nots, sucking up more and more of people's income who think they are joining the cool kids and doing more through technology but who really are devoting more of their life to screen time. The illusion of different apps but only one big app: suck resources to Apple.