(C) Daily Kos
This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered.
. . . . . . . . . .
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: no more conservative victimhood in Walmart's parking lot [1]
['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags']
Date: 2023-04-07
Every second on the yacht I wished I were in a Walmart parking lot
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that many who post in this series already know one another to some degree, but we welcome guests at our kitchen table and hope to make some new friends as well.
I’ve loved the “great value” GV brand at Walmart because it’s like MAGA, and don’t we want to ‘make America great value again’.
“Not meeting financial expectations” serves everything but communitarian values. Because “every second on the (super) yacht I wished I were in a Walmart parking lot.” That’s where free-thinking lives, after being censored in elite private schools, sometimes the site of gun massacres. because the left has deliberately made the right-wing do terrible things, don’t cha know. Even if I wish I were in a Walmart parking lot I rarely shop in one.
High expectations are the key to everything. - Sam Walton In 2023, 15 Walmart stores are closing across 11 states plus Washington DC, as well as two pick-up only locations in Arkansas and Illinois. The stores are expected to close by the end of the year, and Walmart has said employees at shuttered locations are eligible to transfer to other stores. Meanwhile, hundreds of workers will also be laid off at five ecommerce fulfillment centers across the US. [...] Walmart has cited poor financial performance at each of the stores marked for closure as the reason they will be shutting down. The retail giant said the decision was made after a review process that determined the impacted stores failed to meet financial expectations. The news came after an earnings call on February 21 in which Walmart executives warned that rising prices could affect shopper behavior and overall business performance. Just days beforehand, the retail chain closed all its stores in Portland - a city that has has long favored independent and regional retailers - because they were not meeting financial expectations. www.goodto.com/...
While they still last it is possible to get six things healthy to eat at Walmart while benefiting from its couture, which could be more frightening than story hours in a library.
We scoured our local Walmart for the best healthy frozen meals and were pretty impressed with the options. Not everything was healthy, but we found more than a few options that boasted plenty of protein, fiber and a hefty serving of veggies. Then we brought them back to our offices and gave them all a try. Here, the six that passed muster. www.eatingwell.com/…
OTOH there are 25 things that you shouldn’t get at Walmart.
x Every second on the yacht I wished I were in a Walmart parking lot
https://t.co/PkALZ2Cuv5 — Catherine Rampell (@crampell) April 7, 2023 — Justice Clarence Thomas, speaking in a documentary about his life, quoted in a ProPublica report released Thursday that Thomas has accepted undisclosed luxury trips from a prominent Republican donor, including travel by yacht and private jet, for more than two decades. Please keep in mind, my fellow Americans, that each moment I spent on the yacht was torment! That is why I did not disclose it. It was not my idea of a vacation. Every second I spent on those magnificent islands, in those bucolic retreats, eating meals cooked by private chefs, I was seething internally, wishing I were in a Walmart parking lot. “Is everything to your liking?” numerous solicitous waitstaff aboard the yacht asked, and I sighed, dropping my cigar butt into the provided ashtray with a heavy heart. “No,” I said. “This — ” here I indicated the blue sky, the balmy sea breeze — “is not my idea of a good time, for I am a man of the people, with the tastes of the people, and I wish I were pursuing amusement as they do, by driving to Walmart on the weekend to make memories.” www.washingtonpost.com/…
Walmart Inc. (WMT) has seen a huge increase in its stock price, rising from $150.17 to $150.70 in the past year. Sam Walton's close relationship with China is credited with driving this growth.
x Not only is Walmart planning on going fully automated but also plans for the digital currency system. Walmart announced they will be increasing their prices . Walmart will not be the only one
https://t.co/BptoGLF84z — Carol Ray (@CarolRay502000) April 7, 2023 "By the end of Fiscal Year 2026, Walmart believes roughly 65% of stores will be serviced by automation, approximately 55% of the fulfillment center volume will move through automated facilities, and unit cost averages could improve by approximately 20%." However, there was a silver lining to this rather scary-sounding future. "As the changes are implemented across the business, one of the outcomes is roles that require less physical labor but have a higher rate of pay," the report continues. "Over time, the company anticipates increased throughput per person, due to the automation while maintaining or even increasing its number of associates as new roles are created." www.msn.com/...
x 2/ Thomas has publicly presented himself as an everyman with modest tastes.
In this documentary about the justice, he waxes nostalgic about his fondness for Walmart parking lots: pic.twitter.com/39kGMRJLrO — ProPublica (@propublica) April 6, 2023
That they commissioned a painting to memorialize this gathering of conservative illuminati cabal leaders (Crow, Leo, Thomas, etc.) is beyond belief. “As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips.” Those “family trips” include private jet flights to time on a superyacht, accompanied in at least one instance by someone who was at the time a Trump administration official. Thomas also reportedly spends about a week most years at Crow’s private resort, where a painting hangs of the two men relaxing and smoking cigars with Federalist Society leader Leonard Leo. But not, we are to believe, discussing anything that in any way touches on Supreme Court business, even though Leo’s entire mission in life is a right-wing takeover of the courts. Just a bunch of guys sitting around not talking about any of the things they have in common, which also happen to be their life’s work. www.dailykos.com/...
[END]
---
[1] Url:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/7/2156063/-Kitchen-Table-Kibitzing-Friday-no-more-conservative-victimhood-in-Walmart-s-parking-lot
Published and (C) by Daily Kos
Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified.
via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/
