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  Walmart Organic Market

  The issue is not whether the Walmart shopper is poor and cannot afford to shop elsewhere because Walmart is the only place they think they can shop.

  The issue is a combination of things such as advertizing, media, and misunderstanding what the actual cost of shopping there is.  For example, Walmart depends on those who think that they are getting the best prices because the shoppers buy everything at Walmart whether it is something they need or not - they buy because it appears to be cheap.  As a consequence they spend more, stay poor, eat bad food, and fill up their houses with junk they do not need and seldom use.

  Box stores like Walmart take everything out of a community and put nothing in - although they would have you think they support local people - another way they scam trusting shoppers.  We have somehow allowed an entire generation - nearly two to become uneducated (even those who have a college degree are often truly uneducated)with no skills to understand what they should have learned when they were in school and college.  Their educator is television, movies, and "reality" news.  

  If people truly were aware of what is in the food they eat, most would change immediately.  Food appears to be so cheap, that it is "cheaper" to go to "fast food" family resturants who purchase prepared products from the ubiquitous Sysco Systems.  If they calculated what they spend on going out all the time, organic food would seem like a bargain.

  I have approximately 100 students a semester and encourage them to get an education AND a degree. Quite often I see students after they completed classes with me and they often remark that they learned more in my class than in any other they took anywhere!

  It is so sad that true learning cannot happen in the classroom, that people have few real life skills, that they believe everything they see on television, that they never save money and instead shop Walmart because they think they cannot afford to shop elsewhere.  They are the true consumer who willingly turns over their hard earned dollar into the pockets of the multinational corporations who have been given the license to steal by our government.   On Big buyers make organic farmers feel smaller than ever posted 3 years, 3 months ago 25 Responses