Tag: walmart
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#MorningMonarchy: July 24, 2018
Stifling competition, secretly livestreaming and hijacking SIMs + this day in history w/the kitchen debate and our song of the day by Stickybuds on your Morning Monarchy for July 24, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: July 17, 2018
Trade secrets, cybersecurity startups and robo prototypes + this day in history w/the Port Chicago disaster and our song of the day by the Beastie Boys on your Morning Monarchy for July 17, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: May 2, 2018
Grocery fever, seasonal produce and coming pandemics + this day in history w/the selling of ‘The Scream’ and our song of the day by Mazzy Star on your Morning Monarchy for May 2, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: June 6, 2017
Stingray sniffers, Reality Winner(s) and doughnut drones + this day in history w/the first drive-in and our song of the day by Brazilian Girls on your Morning Monarchy for June 6, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: March 22, 2017
Drinkable sunscreen, honest grocery stores and praising plastic surgery + this day in history w/the McMartin Preschool indictments and our song of the day by Dude York on your Morning Monarchy for March 22, 2017.
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Wal-Mart’s Dependence on Food Stamps Revealed
from latimes.com: Talk about a “poverty trap”! The phrase was recently used by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan, R-Wisc., to suggest that the nation’s panoply of programs to aid low-income households was keeping them from rising into the middle class. Wal-Mart’s annual report, issued late last week, puts a different spin on things.…
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Wal-Mart collecting food donations to feed employees
from msnbc.com: Organized labor, protesting workers and other activist groups have been saying for years that low-wage Walmart employees can’t afford to meet basic needs like food. Now, one Cleveland, Ohio, location is doing something about it: soliciting food donations from other workers. In an employees-only section of the store, management has placed two bins…
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SNAP: Studies Link Fast Food Wages to Welfare
from stream.wsj.com: Proponents of boosting low wages strategically shifted their focus to U.S. taxpayers Tuesday, issuing two studies contending the public foots the bill for billions of dollars in public assistance for fast-food workers. The companion studies, issued by the National Employment Law Project and researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are the latest…
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#Occupy Targets Industrial Food System #Feb27
Big Food Must Go: Why We Need to Radically Change the Way We Eat* from sustainablebusiness.com: Occupy, environmental and food justice organizations are joining in a global day of action on February 27 to end corporate control of the food system and steer back society from the stranglehold of industrial giants like Cargill and Monsanto…
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America’s ‘Food Stamp Nation’ continues to grow
from thestar.com: In what is clearly the country’s most troubled period in modern times, a Food Stamp Nation-within-a-nation is swelling to proportions that seemed unthinkable five years ago. In 2006, there were 26.7 million people on food stamps in America. By September 2011, that number had grown to a record 46.3 million, bigger by far…
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2/9 Binge & Purge: Seasick, Yet Still Docked
Wal-Mart’s new labels tell shoppers what’s “Great For You” // Gates and the millions funding geoengineering // Junk foods still plentiful at elementary schools // Taco Bell Should Learn From Long History of Outbreaks // While govt discredits raw milk, salmonella outbreak restaurants kept secret to protect corporate profits // China: Fast food nation. Too…
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grocer a&p files for chapter 11 reorganization
from ap: The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., once the nation’s largest grocer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sunday after years of struggling with enormous debt and rising competition from low-priced peers. The 151-year-old company, based in Montvale, N.J., operates 395 stores around the Northeast under the A&P, Waldbaum’s, The Food Emporium, Super…
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2/25 Binge & Purge – Corn, Codex, Hot Dogs & Walmart
3m acres of GMO corn illegally planted in US // 10yrs of bribery & bad tomatoes // McCain’s dietary supplement bill: An attempt to implement ‘Codex Alimentarius’ // ‘Pop artist’ pleads guilty to misbranding