From the NYT (via Calculated Risk):

“There are families not eating at the end of the month,” said Stephen Quinn, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Wal-Mart Stores, and “literally lining up at midnight” at Wal-Mart stores waiting to buy food when paychecks or government checks land in their accounts.

So is Walmart going to do anything about that? Apparently not:

Among the steps Wal-Mart is taking to address the changes in shopping habits, Mr. Quinn listed an overhaul of the retailer’s private-label brand, Great Value, which is promoted in commercials describing how families can fix dinners with Great Value products “for less than $2 a serving.”

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I guess “changes in shopping habits” is one way to refer to going hungry. I prefer “a moral disgrace in the richest country in the world” (or have the Chinese passed us yet?).

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