Retailers are all about quantity and scheduling. Can they cancel or reduce contracts from suppliers? And that will back up to manufacturers. More layoffs.

Didn't Wally World donate to CheetoIini's campaign? How's that working out for them?

It would be interesting to hear the convo between Trump and Walton-which ever one is in charge.

Of course the first month many might squeeze some spending out via various methods but this will have a bad ripple throughout the economy. And groceries make up over 72% of Walmart's gross in store sales.

It's just sad that other innocent people will get hurt because of Walmart and other corporations greed.

Is a win / win / win program with a substantial multiplier effect….
Individuals are helped, communities are helped, stores/businesses are helped, farmers are helped….
There is really no downside to the SNAP program…. The republicans are playing a very cruel game

A 2020 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that an estimated 14,500 Walmart employees in nine states were receiving SNAP benefits,

So they benefit from snap on both sides of the equation.

foreclosed farms, kidnapped families and separations, gassing Americans on American streets, warrantless searches medical insurance and costs through the roof, murdering foreigners in International waters, threatening sovereign Nation's, a tenant demolishing our Whitehouse and the Gov't. shutdown at the behest of that tenant while erecting a ballroom in his own honor.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYBODY!

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"DEMOCRATS ARE DOING THIS TO YOU"

I did put quotes around it. Maybe should've put "MAGA:"

how many of those 40 Million who got SNAP benefits, were part of the 70 Million MAGAot Trumphumping worshippers???????

about all the U.S. Corporations, who all were instrumental in getting Trump in office, are now feeling the effects of all this.

He already threw the farmers under the bus, then his ranchers, his voters, and now is also damaging these same corporations?????????

There are many industries that are gonna suffer because of Trumps actions......think about it.......The entire Health Industry, including the Pharmaceutical industry, the hospital industry, the health insurance industry........as well as the Automobile industry, the retail industry, and the food industries to name a few...........

Small rural communities are going to lose pharmacies, groceries, and medical services. They're already losing jobs and they'll lose more of those too.

Christ Hospital of Jersey City, e.g.

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He has had a priapism for years and years.....

If all they care about is money they'd act rationally. If all that needs to be done is take money out of politics, Republicans would become a normal political party and compromise with Democrats to govern? No. Power, ideology, when the brakes have failed going downhill, other things as well.

As a money-loser for the wealthy they’ll care?

to the.........TOP 1%

Only the plebes are allowed to suffer, not the billionaires...

Places who voted for this shit!
I wish Rulli would go belly up while he kisses trumps ass!

I’m not worried for them. Walmart closing would open up space for 1000’s of small businesses.

So $60 million profit lost, not $2 billion.

Moreover, that $2 billion figure assumes snap recipients will cut their Walmart spending exactly correlated with the flow of snap funds.

In reality, some will continue to shop at Walmart and cut back elsewhere (food before rent) and some of the spending would be covered later once the snap payments are restored (to some extent people will catch up on the spending they missed -- so the interruption may only affect timing, not total spending at Walmart)

since the majority of their stuff is imported from China and they have probably run through their stocked-up inventory by now.

Walmart’s Furner: Tariffs Forcing Move to Domestic Products


They lose profit when they raise prices and demand slows.

He lives in the UK and he's just out of school (where he majored in politics and international relations... not economics) - so we should cut him some slack. But this is oversimplified beyond much value.

As you say - can he just asssume that SNAP recipients will stop buying food? The expectation is that recipients will be reimbursed the full amount once the government reopens. And what about the $6Billion/month that gets spent at other grocery stores? What if those SNAP recipients choose to offset their pain by shopping at cheaper stores (actually driving business TO walmart)?

And some states are covering SNAP payments (at least at first) when the federal taps dry up.

Funded the GOP so much!

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