• DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Well where I am the local grocery stores are where you go when you want to pay gas station chain prices at the grocery store.

    Walmart gives it to you the cheapest available. So its like $2 vs $5 for a Gatorade and that’s one item. I don’t understand how anyone affords to shop anywhere else.

    And yeah I feel you they are evil and the Waltons suck and the sales tax kills little kids in other countries through missle strikes and it all fucking sucks I feel you on that but damn at the end of the day I’m either going to blow my brains out about it or find the cheapest way to continue feeding me and my family. Which is unfortunately wal mart.

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      3 months ago

      the sales tax kills little kids in other countries

      I agree with you, shop where you have to and do what you need to do to get by… sorry it’s so rough for you at the moment, but I did want to let you know that at least your sales tax money isn’t killing kids in other countries because the state gets the sales tax. Hopefully that helps just a little bit.

      And, since the baby killing money comes from income tax, if you’re low income hopefully you can at least rest easy knowing that you’re contributing less to the baby killing machine.

      The above is all mostly tongue in cheek, I feel for you and certainly don’t want to make light of a tough situation, but I’m hoping you at least got a smile out of it.

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      3 months ago

      I envy the privelage one must have to be experiencing to ask questions like “why do people shop where its cheapest!?”.

      I guess that even at my poorest, which wasn’t all that long ago and was rock bottom, I understood the difference between price and cost.

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        3 months ago

        If you got to choose to spend 20-30% more on food because of your principles and feelings about the store then you have no idea what rock bottom is.

        You’ve never even seen the rock dude.