Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We ask from the heart that supermarkets, which are now more profitable and selling more, help us to take care of the pocketbook of the people by not raising prices.
Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'
Businesses are going to innovate in how they bring prices down so people can shop the way they want.
I buy my produce at the local farmer's market, which is actually cheaper than shopping at the grocery store.
The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?
If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.
You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.
I have a feeling that there is a gap in the food retail market - a niche below some of the current budget operators such as Aldi and Lidl.
The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.
Frankly, if you can sell something at $80 a tonne that cost you $20 a tonne, you might want to sell as much as you can.