Comments on: Wal-Mart Switches To Local Fruit, Veggies

Retail Giant Says It Is Now Biggest Buyer Of Local Produce In U.S.

[dnsallday]

WALMART: DESTROYING AMERICA ONE MAIN STREET AT A TIME.

[cburn665]

Well, I am not a Wal Mart fan but as many local folks who give them their money, it''s time Walmart give something back to the community instead of take, take and take. In small towns there''re few choices where to shop.

I try to avoid Wal Mart too, but sometimes it''s almost impossible.

God save Us...

[whitemale08]

soon local farmers will sell their produce on the shoulders of our highways like in third world countries....la melon...la melon....la melon.

I still applaud the move.

I bet third world countries don''t look so backwards now.

you mean they actully buy american products made by americans? their fruits, veggies and meat taste like *** anyways, i''ll continue going to my local ppl and know that i''m not supporting chinmart

[acolton1]

I HATE TO Shop or Even Set foot inside any Wal-Mart. I avoid Wal-Mart like the Plague but sometimes I am forced to go with somebody or have to get something there. I try to shop Costco ONLY, I love Costco.

Wal-Mart is such a Pain they built the Biggest Wal-Mart in the Nation on Interstate 70, just east of Kansas City, its on the Blue Ridge Exit. It''s over run with Illegal Immigrants and their 50 children each. I will give Wal-Mart credit it is a very nice new and super clean store.

I guess now that Wal-Mart is buying up all the local produce there goes any selection at Saturday Market.

[missingamerica]

And the wheel turns...

I wonder if anybody at Wal-Mart foresaw the impact on global energy prices and commodities before they turned their pocket pansy Bill Clinton loose on "free trade" and started forcing American manufacturers to meet or beat the price of goods manufactured in cheap labor nations?

lollll...I doubt it. They probably thought exactly as far as "We''ll get rich!".

[nssherlock1]

That has always been the mark of Wal-Mart...full of local fruits and nuts.....and more than their share of two-legged pigs.

[lochlan-2009]

Well, it''s good that they are buying from local farmeres, but I don''t think I really trust Wal-mart not to lie about where vegetables come from. Especially, when they can charge more for a product by saying it''s local (this is what Americans want), and then pay less for it by "accidentally" putting out foreign grown vegetables for a nice profit.

[wl7bzh]

Then again Walmart might cut out a lot of middlemen resulting in a tendency towards lower pricing?

Lower food prices and walk in health clinics-

Hmm-wonder if Walmart has thot about going into the alternative energy thingie?

[walt1944-2009]

In an effort to capture total market share of EVERYTHING that is sellable, Wal-Mart has decided to put out of business all small produce stands and stores throughout the USSA by offering produce grown locally, SUPPOSEDLY!

Showing the consumer once again that corporate greed knows no bounds on ambition, as well as the new financial slogans that "MONOPOLY IS GOOD!" and "IF THERE IS A BUCK TO BE MADE, WAL-MART WILL MAKE IT!", and also fostered by the Ferengi economy of the Great Emperor Bush II and the neocon Fascist Nazi Republicans, Wal-Mart is forging ahead with its plans to dominate ALL aspects of consumer life and to eliminate entirely small business from the planet.

After cornering the produce market, Wal-Mart will move into blacksmithing next, noting that because of the high cost of energy, people will begin to look at buying horses and buggys to get around and knowing that no one has a clear agenda on ANYTHING regarding energy!

The Amish are already planning efforts to stop this move by Wal-Mart.

SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!!
sig heil, DEFINITELY MORE OF THE SAME, McCain!!!!

[extremophil]

The criticism of Wal-Mart is largely unjustified. Those Mom & Pop stores may be cute and nostalgic, but they aren''t worth crying over.

[newsjunky5]

That''s good news. Besides the obvious benefits of saving fuel, and fresher produce, if there is an incident of E.coli getting in the vegetables from ranch runoff, it can be investigated locally. No more playing "poison the baby and stonewall" with the cattle folks running the USDA. The locals will be victims, judge, jury, and executioner. I like it.

[faith_in_w]

Oh joy, they will crush our local farmers and drive them into bankruptcy with their lower prices campaign!