NOBULL: Walmart’s Death Grip on Groceries Is Making Life Worse for Millions of People (Hard Times USA)

Walmart’s Death Grip on Groceries Is Making Life Worse for Millions of People (Hard Times USA)

By Stacy Mitchell, AlterNet

Walmart’s growing control of our food system has been to intensify the rural and urban poverty that drives unhealthy food choices. READ MORE»

“Walmart extracts wealth and pushes down incomes in every community it touches”

“Walmart, which defines "local" as grown in the same state, has increased its sales of local produce mainly by relying on large industrial growers.”

“The tragic irony is that many food-producing regions, with their local economies dismantled and poverty on the rise, are now themselves lacking grocery stores.”