"Everybody knows" is not reason to intentionally misrepresent what the report says. "Affecting their bottom line" does not equal "requires employees to depend on food stamps." If you want to criticize Walmart, at least be honest about it and not make stuff up. I was going to go with intellectually lazy as the excuse for your headline. I was wrong. Intellectually dishonest is more accurate.
The report you cited admits no such thing. If you read the section, it makes no mention of employees receiving SNAP and other public assistance. It does however mention in the same section ", credit availability to consumers and
businesses, levels of consumer disposable income, consumer confidence, consumer credit availability, consumer spending patterns, consumer debt levels,
consumer preferences, including consumer demand for the merchandise we offer for sale, the timing of consumers' receipt of tax refund checks, changes in the
amount of payments made under the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Plan and other public assistance plans, changes in the eligibility requirements of public
assistance plans, inflation, deflation, commodity prices, the cost of the goods we sell, competitive pressures, the seasonality of our business, seasonal buying
patterns in the United States and our other markets,:
The clear implication is that a segment of Walmart's CUSTOMERS receive public assistance, and that changes in such programs could affect the company's business. Seems reasonable to me, and hardly the evil that you portray.
"Everybody knows" is not reason to intentionally misrepresent what the report says. "Affecting their bottom line" does not equal "requires employees to depend on food stamps." If you want to criticize Walmart, at least be honest about it and not make stuff up. I was going to go with intellectually lazy as the excuse for your headline. I was wrong. Intellectually dishonest is more accurate.
The report you cited admits no such thing. If you read the section, it makes no mention of employees receiving SNAP and other public assistance. It does however mention in the same section ", credit availability to consumers and
businesses, levels of consumer disposable income, consumer confidence, consumer credit availability, consumer spending patterns, consumer debt levels,
consumer preferences, including consumer demand for the merchandise we offer for sale, the timing of consumers' receipt of tax refund checks, changes in the
amount of payments made under the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Plan and other public assistance plans, changes in the eligibility requirements of public
assistance plans, inflation, deflation, commodity prices, the cost of the goods we sell, competitive pressures, the seasonality of our business, seasonal buying
patterns in the United States and our other markets,:
The clear implication is that a segment of Walmart's CUSTOMERS receive public assistance, and that changes in such programs could affect the company's business. Seems reasonable to me, and hardly the evil that you portray.