I have noticed the customers at Wal Marts are MEGA SIZED ? Is this a growing trend ?

Question

I see starrwood is a WalMart Classic dual seat taker . Keep Mega sizing dear to keep the lard juices pumpin.

Answer 1

Hahah, yeah! I thought I was the only one who noticed that everyone who shops at WalMart is obese!

Answer 2

Our culture is a culture of consumption. Starting at childhood, we consume advertising, we consume products. Our food is made with higher fats, more salt, and more sugar- just like raising nicotine levels in cigarettes. We are told that supersized "portion distortion" is normal. Marketers use "nag factor" marketing to influence kids to bother parents until they buy sugar cereals and McDonalds. Is it our fault for lacking self-control, or are the fast-food corporations to blame?

To counter criticism, the food industry and pro-business groups use a public relations script focused on personal responsibility. The script thas three elements 1) if people are overweight it's their own fault 2) industry responds to consumer demand but does not create it, and 3) insisting that industry change, say by not marketing to children or requiring restaurants to reveal calories- is an attack on freedom.
Why quarrel with the personal responsiblity argument? First, it's wrong. The prevalence of obesity increases year after year. Were people less responsible in 2002 than in 2001? Obesity is a global problem. Is irresponsibility an epidemic around the world?.
Second, it ignores biology. Humans are hardwired as a survival strategy, to like foods high in sugar, fat, and calories. Third, the argument is not helpful. Imploring people to eat better and exercise more has been the default approach to obesity for years. That is a failed experiment.
Fourth, personal responsibility is a trap. The argument is startlignly similar to the tobacco industry's efforts to stave off legislative and regulatory interventions. The nation tolerated personal-responsibility arguments from Big Tobacco for decades, with disastrous results.
Governments collude with industry when they shift attention from conditions promoting poor diets to the individuals who consume them. Government should be doing everything it can to create conditions that lead to healthy eating, support parents in raising healthy children and make decisions in the interests of public health rather than private profit.

In the United States, 55 percent of adults are overweight by international standards. A whopping 23 percent of American adults are considered obese. And the trend is spreading to children as well, with one in five American kids now classified as overweight.… [O]besity cost the United States 12 percent of the national health care budget in the late 1990s, $118 billion, more than double the $47 billion attributable to smoking.

Although America as a whole is one of the most obese countries in the world, the poorest are the most susceptible.

Energy-dense foods rich in starch, sugar, or fat are the cheapest option for the consumer. As long as the healthier lean meats, fish, and fresh produce remain more expensive, obesity will continue to be a problem for the working poor.

Fat in America is an economic issue. The highest rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes are found among groups with the highest poverty rates, and the least education.

"We think of obesity as being predicted by genetics; believe me, it is also predicted by incomes and zip codes," says Drewnowski. There are many reasons why low-income families have less access to affordable healthy foods. Those reasons may involve food pricing and marketing, school and work schedules, or even transportation and access to the nearest grocery store.

Basic crops such as corn and soybeans are used to such an extent that many unhealthy and processed foods are created from them, contributing to the problem: Because we subsidize those calories, we end up with a supermarket in which the least healthy calories are the cheapest. And the most healthy calories are the most expensive. That, in the simplest terms, is the root of the obesity epidemic for the poor—because the obesity epidemic is really a class-based problem. It’s not an epidemic, really. The biggest prediction of obesity is income.

At the root of the problem is unrestrained corporate power. We need to reform, regulate, and rewrite the corporate charter. First thing to do is watch "The Corporation" to learn how it all works.

Answer 3

Not only are they mega-sized, they are aggressive too. I had the misfortune to need to use the bathroom. It was clean. There were three huge black ladies there that practically cornered me after I was done, and hit me up for money for their church's anti-drug program. It was like they were gonna attack me if I didn't "donate".

Answer 4

i see the same thing just the other day i was at wall mart and i was thinking that there wear a lot of Gross ppl there
target seams to have a much better looking staff and shoppers

Answer 5

mega sizing is happening all over. We go for mega sized meals making for mega sized people.

Answer 6

hahhaaaaaaaa lol funny

Im in love with the Wal Mart greeter

Answer 7

That's WalMart's demographic. That's why they have teamed up with McDonalds...products are cheap, unhealthy food, don't care about smaller local stores.

Answer 8

First of all I don't shop there! Any union member in this country should not either! In my opinion. HUGE violater of workers rights in THIS country, the only one that matters, USA!

Answer 9

It's because the skinny people who go into the store get eaten and never come out.

Answer 10

ok wow ummm no i shop there and what im like a freakin workout aholic so dont even go there. And i know alot of people that shop there and they are like skinnny oh so what now