No kidding! Wal-Mart blames food stamp cuts for low profits

[kidrocks]

AHA!

Who'd a thunk it? Wal-Mart dependent on those low information, 47% food-stamp moochers!

LOL... and I love it!





Wal-Mart guides lower

Discount retail giant Wal-Mart added to Wall Street's gloom on Friday, slicing fourth quarter guidance from its original estimate as it blamed a litany of negative factors for the lowered expectations.

Wal-Mart said earnings for Q4 would be "at or slightly below the low end" of its $1.60-$1.70 per share range. The retailer faulted the federal government's reduction in food stamps—significant because most of its clients are lower income buyers...

 

[occupied]

Cutting food stamps has an immediate effect on the food industry, why would it not?

 

[kidrocks]

Cutting food stamps has an immediate effect on the food industry, why would it not?

**** the food industry... what about the effect on the hungry women and children?

 

[HenryBHough]

Cutting food stamps has an immediate effect on the food industry, why would it not?

**** the food industry... what about the effect on the hungry women and children?

Alas, Moochelle's rant about obesity flew right over yo' head.

Good thing it missed the point else it might have punctured.

 

[occupied]

Cutting food stamps has an immediate effect on the food industry, why would it not?

**** the food industry... what about the effect on the hungry women and children?

Sucks to be them? Appeals to decency have no effect on stockholders.

 

[Vox]

Cutting food stamps has an immediate effect on the food industry, why would it not?

**** the food industry... what about the effect on the hungry women and children?

it might, just MIGHT, lower their BMI from 35+ to 30+

 

[percysunshine]

Walmart Gets Stuck With Bill From Food Stamp Shopping Spree; Customers Riot When EBT Cards Fail to Work at Miss. Store

 

[Mr. H.]

Goes to show you how Obama is propping up the economy.


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