"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> 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:
>>>>
>>>> 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. 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.

Yes. It's very sad.