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Is Walmart’s March into Cities Helping or Hurting?
Having saturated the rural landscape, shuttering local stores in small town America along the way, now, in the wake of stagnant sales and increased competition, Walmart desperately needs to expand into urban markets. Read rest at Food Safety News…
Posted in Big Food, food assistance, food stamps, Lobbying, Public Health, SNAP
Tagged food deserts, Walmart
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Did Walmart Buy Growing Power’s Silence for a Million Dollars?
Last week retail behemoth Walmart announced a $1.01 million donation to Milwaukee-based Growing Power, a well-known nonprofit whose founder Will Allen has gained much accolades for his hard work to bring local, healthy food to low-income areas.
Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move After Year One: Little More than PR?
The following op-ed was recently published in numerous newspapers across the country through McClatchy-Tribune News Service.
Posted in Child Nutrition, Walmart
Tagged childhood obesity, junk food, Let's Move, marketing to children, Obama, Rudd Center, Walmart
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How Walmart Swindled the White House
When Michelle Obama first announced her Let’s Move program to end childhood obesity “within a generation” last year, I tried to remain open-minded. Like many others, I was happy to have the First Lady bring attention to this important problem. … Continue reading