On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:47:10 -0600, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:44:56 -0700, graham wrote:
>
>> About 10
>> years ago I was shopping around for deals for baby formula and my
>> locally owned supermarket was 30% cheaper than Walmart, and that was the
>> regular price.
>
>Walmart here in the U.S. charges the maximum they can for baby formula
>because WIC pays for it - a government welfare program that
>reimburses grocery stores for the retail cost of the product. And all
>those WIC recipients just love Walmart, so that's where they buy it
>because the retail price doesn't matter to them.
>
>Walmart is very good at extracting as much money as they can from the
>Government. Half of Walmart's workforce qualifies for food stamps and
>other public assistance programs.

Don't you mean half of the Texans qualify for food stamps and other
public assistance programs...