What Walmart Means to Me:An Essay by a Person with a Lower Middle-Class Income

Maybe we should close down the Walmarts so that the two "Mom and Pop" biz'es left in town can survive.....just because Margy Banks, White Woman, (who gets to be a StayathomeMom and is married to a $300,000/year income and can choose where she shops), says so.

Try really hard to forget that, in some towns, on some NDN Rezervations, like, 90% of the employment is the local Walmart store.

Put aside that Walmart allows people that don't have as much CASH as Margy does to still have a few of the things that Margy has.(Of course, maybe that makes Margy fundamentally unhappy or uncomfortable....)

Maybe the Super Walmart allows some folks to feed the kids milk, chicken, and veggies when, otherwise, they would be eating unbrand box macaroni, chips, and pop.

(Maybe I subscribe to the view that there is deliberate financial discrimination/genocide being perpetrated in an effort to keep the monied well fed and comfortable enough that they remain in power, and that the widening gap between the "Haves" and "HaveNots" is a strategy. Maybe Walmart makes that strategy a little harder to realize.)

Maybe Walmart isn't a particularly worse violator of employee rights than many other mercantile corporations. Maybe they are just more targeted.

Maybe the invisible Chinese Child Slavery problem isn't Walmarts fault.

Maybe Walmart hasn't air-dropped Round-up on the unprotected vegetation of South America, claiming it's the War On Drugs,(while wiping out the legit farmers and poisoning the waters), and interestingly coincident with Monsantos desire to market "Roundup Ready"  engineered seed to the farmies down thataway. 

I went to the Walmart store today.

I was able to get two-weeks worth of groceries, HEALTHY food choices, for less than $75.

TOUGH that I don't go to the KrogerStore anymore, not since they did B-Bear outta biz and then jacked up their prices....not since the local Walmart went Super and made a decent price on grapes available.

Since many of those grapes are imports from S. America...... maybe we need to worry more about where the Fed, in partnership with Monsanto, is spewing Roundup and less about closing the Walmart stores on the sayso of good'ol Margy Banks.