2026-05-04 23:17 UTC
@AutisticInnovator So many of these foods are aimed at kids, and parents with kids are by far most likely to be benefits recipients because of the aforementioned inhumane qualifications. Walmart of course is among the worst offenders paying its workers so little, though I wouldn’t be surprised to see prices on these items suppressed for a while at most retail grocers, because the inequality split is severe - swelling ranks of poor to a shrinking pool of wealthy - they’re going to see a demand crash that eventually starts impacting their ability to turn over before the best-by date. I wonder if they’ll start raising prices again in a month or six, though, especially if all other foods begin to rise given the fuels crisis in the works.
Hopefully demand will fall and stay down, new (but still joyful, not ascetic) food habits will prevail, and Frito-Lay, Walmart, et alia can get stuffed on their profit-seeking at the expense of the poor. Maybe this is the time for budget-focused creators with an eye to affordable pleasures to blow up (Kiki Rough is one of my favorites) and the rest of us to start swapping recipes.
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@AutisticInnovator@autistics.life 2026-05-04 23:36
@cwicseolfor Walmart gets their employees on SNAP, which they benefit from when their employees spend it at Walmart. In Texas, the main beneficiaries of SNAP are single moms. Frito Lay and the other soda and snack companies are headquartered in Texas. Our Texas SNAP was subsidizing their profits. Using the poor and single moms money from the government in Texas to make their corporations richer. In 2001 a bottle of soda was 75¢, now it’s $2.25. I don’t enjoy soda, but I drink a lot of it purely for cheap liquid calories.