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• Sam's Club, Costco are rationing rice

  Posted Apr 23 2008, 05:45 PM by Karen Datko
  Filed under: Spending, Wal-Mart, Karen Datko, Groceries
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  Shades of World War II: Two warehouse-type retail chains in the United States are rationing rice as anxious customers stock up because of a worldwide shortage.

  It's the most startling sign that the world food crisis is making itself felt in the United States. But, despite rising food prices here, we've still got it good compared with some developing countries, where food shortages and price hikes have sparked deadly riots.   Read More...

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• Happy Earth Month: Wal-Mart to give away reusable bags

  Posted Apr 18 2008, 02:28 PM by Karen Datko
  Filed under: Saving, Wal-Mart, Karen Datko, Groceries
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  We can look out our back window right this minute and see two of those flimsy white plastic shopping bags blowing in the wind in the upper limbs of two trees in our backyard.

  These bags can take 1,000 years to decompose, we read at Boston Gal's Open Wallet. That's why everyone should take heed of her notice that Wal-Mart, in partnership with Kellogg's, is giving away 1 million reusable shopping bags starting at 8 a.m. on April 19 in celebration of Earth Month.   Read More...

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• He finds lots to hate about Wal-Mart; she likes it just fine

  Posted Mar 21 2008, 05:27 PM by Karen Datko
  Filed under: Spending, Wal-Mart, Karen Datko, Groceries

  Everyone has an opinion about Wal-Mart, so when "SingleGuyMoney" wrote about things he hates about Wally World, "BeThisWay" at Are You Going To Be This Way The Rest of The Time I Know You? was compelled to reply.

  Since SingleGuyMoney started this discussion, we'll give his reasons first: too many people, rude people, bad drivers in the parking lot, and shoppers with 50 items who go to the checkout line for 20 or fewer items. Most irritating, he said, is what he calls "poor financial responsibility."

  He explained: "Today, the person in front of me with the 50 items paid for her food with her food stamp card. She paid for her five DVDs with cash. Granted, I do not know what her financial position is or how many kids she has, but if you need food stamps to buy your food, you probably should be saving your cash for other needs and not movies."   Read More...

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• Turkey dinner for just $189 a plate

  Posted Nov 09 2007, 09:25 AM by Donna Freedman
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  The turkey ads showed up in my mailbox the other day. This week I can get a gobbler for 39 to 79 cents a pound, or even for free if I were to spend $100 at one store. Compare that with the $4.99-a-pound cost for the "heritage" (exotic breed) turkeys featured in a recent article in Pacific Northwest, the Seattle Times Sunday magazine. Author Lynda V. Mapes described supermarket turkeys as having "cottony meat" and as being "so blanderized by industrial-style production it can be like eating sawdust with butter." The chef of a renowned regional restaurant orders the heirloom turkeys each year, Mapes wrote. "Not just any bird, after all, would do for his nine-course holiday dinner that goes for $189 per plate and up, including wine." Last year's menu included a choice of poached white meat on king bolete mushroom bread pudding, confit of leg on mashed delicata squash with shallot, or herbed crépinette on cabbage with quince. Then there were the side dishes, like cauliflower fenugreek soup   Read More...
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