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Buy my food at Walmart? No thanks. Until recently, I had been to exactly one Walmart in my life, at the insistence of a friend I was visiting in Natchez, Mississippi, about 10 years ago. It was one of the sights, she said. Up and down the aisles we went, properly impressed by the endless rows and endless abundance. Not the produce section. I saw rows of prepackaged, plastic-trapped fruits and vegetables. I would never think of shopping there.

Not even if I could get environmentally correct food. Walmart’s move into organics was then getting under way, but it just seemed cynical—a way to grab market share while driving small stores and farmers out of business. Then, last year, the market for organic milk started to go down along with the economy, and dairy farmers in Vermont and other states, who had made big investments in organic certification, began losing contracts and selling their farms. A guaranteed large buyer of organic milk began to look more attractive. And friends started telling me I needed to look seriously at Walmart’s efforts to sell sustainably raised food.

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Walmart holding its own against Whole Foods? This called for a blind tasting.

I conspired with my contrarian friend James McWilliams, an agricultural historian at Texas State University at San Marcos and the author of the new Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly. He enlisted his friends at Fino, a restaurant in Austin that pays special attention to where the food it serves comes from, as co-conspirators. I would buy two complete sets of ingredients, one at Walmart and the other at Whole Foods. The chef would prepare them as simply as possible, and serve two versions of each course, side by side on the same plate, to a group of local food experts invited to judge.

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David Tovar, a spokesman for Wal-Mart, said the layoffs were not a cost-cutting measure in response to a bad economy. He said that the 10,000 Sam’s Club employees who demonstrate products could apply for jobs with Shopper Events, which plans to hire roughly the same number of workers being laid off.

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ORIGINAL: thornhappy

I won't buy my meat from Walmart, Kroger, or Meijer's because it's all got the magic solution in it.  I go to Dorothy Lane Market or the local farmer's market instead.

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ORIGINAL: thornhappy

I won't buy my meat from Walmart, Kroger, or Meijer's because it's all got the magic solution in it.  I go to Dorothy Lane Market or the local farmer's market instead.

We don't have Dorothy Lane Markets in Connecticut but I have been to one in Ohio.  It wasn't half bad, price-wise.  I've also heard some midwest A&P stores source locally too.

Nothing beats the local farmers market, though.  Except for growing it yourself.  

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

I shop at Trader Joes. I do not shop at Walmart or Whole Paycheck

Here is one reason I do not shop at Whole Paycheck
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=8322658&page=1

I am for healthcare reform... even if I dislike the current package being passed, the CEO of Whole Paycheck thumbed his nose at "liberals"... I say "fuck him and his company"

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ORIGINAL: intenze
Hate hate hate walmart...sometimes I am stuck shopping there though because there is so little in my town. I try to keep it at a minimum.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

Wal-Mart doing good things???  Level, are you trying to make people's heads explode or something?

Hey Rich; I know, will wonders never cease??

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Carrie:

I know my opinon on this isn't the popular one...no worries.

That does it, I'm putting you on block!

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thorny:

I won't buy my meat from Walmart, Kroger, or Meijer's because it's all got the magic solution in it.

Yumm, magic.

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littlewonder:

I shop at Walmart because well....it's cheap.

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Jonnie:

Wal-Mart ? ... I didn't think profanities like that were even accepted here.

Don't forget, I eat at McDonalds, too!

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DomImus:

I liked the WSJ article John Mackey wrote about health care reform.

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I go there once a week, but can't buy everything there