On 9/12/2019 8:59 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 11:16:40 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski
>> wrote:
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>>> On 9/11/2019 11:37 PM, John Kuthe wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Do we have THAT many poor people in the U.S.? :-(
>>> >
>>> > John Kuthe...
>>> >
>>> Check the demographics.Â* The typical shopper at WalMart is a 50 year old
>>> woman with an income over $53.000/
>>>
>>> A family of four is considered poor if income is less than $25k.
>>>
>> Since he claims he doesn't shop at Wally World I want to know why he
>> thinks
>> the people who shop there are poor?
>
> Poor people shop everywhere. Often they have no good means of
> transportation and must shop at whatever store is close to them.

That is true and some stores are getting a lot of crap about it. Dollar
General has a lot of stores in low income areas and they can be walked
to but since they don't have a lot of fresh produce some do-good people
think they should be closed down. Supermarket would go there if they
could make a profit in those places, but they can't.