you spend a lot of time and waste a lot of gas going to different places though.....in end, no savings really.

Support Mon and Pop stores and if none, go to a retailer other than Walmart whenever possible.....

saving money in the long run will cost you..we need to look not to save a few pennies ,but quality for ourselves and our children.

Joseph Pearce makes a good point on this at the Eaten Alive conference, whole talk is on youtube

I bought some groceries at walmart the other day.

I was unimpressed with the prices.

I really expected it to be cheaper.

so you do not want to care about their future, that is what is about...

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Perhaps you're getting a little overly dramatic here?

support Walmart or somone else, is it really that more expensive to go to farmers market??

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Walmart by me doesn't sell produce. And the farmers market opens in June after school lets out. And there are no mom and pop stores in New Jersey anymore--not that I know of, anyway.. They all went out of business like in the 1960's.  Nowadays the grocery stores are all chains store here. Where do you live that you have mom and pop stores?

watch the Walmert movie, ignore some of the more liberal views, the facts alone are what is important.

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For what? So I can have guilt complexes? I have enough guilt complexes already, don't need any more, thank you.

and no, it does not matter whow kids I have...

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It does matter to me how many kids I have, if I had one kid I could afford those chi chi stores...

I shop other than walmart for YOUR kids future and others..

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a lot of quotes, but hard to see where you are responding to my last posts.

What I am saying is that in the long term, supporting stores like Walmart that have a very deceptive marketing and business practices will hurt your children, no matter the short term.

also, the quality of food, GMO's,etc is not good for them.Shopping organically and/or locally will at least insure some better quality, esp since with a little digging, when can see if modified seeds were used, pesticides,chemicals,etc..

Theoretically...forget theory, utilize practice, a lot of people say "I like ___ in theory", is a cop out-and no, not trying to attack you or impute motives to you-but too many say this and it is often used as a excuse for inaction....a lot may say that about the faith, "its nice and all, but my family.." and no conversion..

watch the movie, ignore some blatently liberal folks, the facts alone were worth the video, and it is online youtbue for free..

you note Mom and Pops went out yrs ago-what does that say about chains? your neighbors buisnesses are gone, they are reduced to working for someone else, their kids turned over to day care centers and schools...

lastely, have no idea what a "Chi CHi store" is, but organics are not much more or less than Walmart....

if we do not change now, Walmert, with Chinese imports, wil lbe all we get.and what world is that for your chidlren......


by the way, have been in Whole Foods when a large family ddi sho there and they did not drive fancy cars nor look like wealthy people......have to shop at a chain, then find one with quality that is NOT a Walmart

gotcha, like your new "arian" ism

Well, the other thing is this: how do you really know that the other stores are so altruistic and well intentioned? Do you think that Whole Foods shares our values? Who are they? What charities do they contribute to?

Look, I understand you're concerned with doing the right thing and I do respect that. But in this world, maybe I have enough to worry about already.

if you have children, you are busy, true, but dont you worry about their health? the products they use? eat?

walmart gets free land, little-no taxes and coaches their people to apply for socialized heatlh care...all that affects your children...

you are concerned where they go to church, right? who they are around there,right?

so why not any other facet of your life?

N one is talking about the stores being perfect, but they do not act and treat people like Walmart...tghe Whole Foods near me have a waiting list before and since the depression started for work..2 yrs ago, put in a pp for P/t work, no openings then or now...good benefits,etc..

Being Catholic also has to include how and where we shop and how those companies treat others, Catholicism does not stop at the door of the Church......

as to where does others give, easy enough to look into....

again, spend some time not here at CI, but watching the movie....

rmember, being a Catholic parent means educating self and family in every facet of life....no doubt you are busy, but soo too are the elitists out to poison your kids.....Walmart is also helping spearhead the RFID chip and help Govt test it...does that concern you? hope so...

no company is perfect, but walmart's track records is tax beenies, poor wages, poor benefits for employees.that is not something a Catholic can say "hey, I'm too busy" or "hey, dont care my kids have GM foods and cheap Chinese manufacturing"...being Catholic is not only beleif, but everyday practice....or it is not ones faith, really..

I understand that fiances are tight and you are very busy, but take what I say under consideration, also, watch the movie: