Target to lower prices on thousands of items

[dead0man]

Walmart had pretty good earnings , maybe a shift of middle income consumers to trashier Walmart ?

Walmart said as much on its earnings call that more high earners were shopping at its stores mainly through its Walmart+ delivery.

we don't do plus, but we do pick up at store and have them shop for us and put it in the back of the car.  Like every other normal person, I like Wal Mart's prices, but gawd damn I hate going into their stores.  Wal Mart customers are the worst people on Earth (ya know, poor Americans).

[dead0man]

Walmart had pretty good earnings , maybe a shift of middle income consumers to trashier Walmart ?

Walmart said as much on its earnings call that more high earners were shopping at its stores mainly through its Walmart+ delivery.

we don't do plus, but we do pick up at store and have them shop for us and put it in the back of the car.  Like every other normal person, I like Wal Mart's prices, but gawd damn I hate going into their stores.  Wal Mart customers are the worst people on Earth (ya know, poor Americans).

Maybe it's because this is an upscale area, but our local Walmart is clean, spacious, and the customers (and staff) seem to be ordinary suburbanites for the most part.

the closest one to me is maybe a decade old and it's been a sh**t hole the entire time.  It was gross on the inside with months of opening.  If I have to go inside, I'll go to a different Wal Mart, the ones south and west are like you describe (but nowhere near as nice as the Targets in the same directions).  A mile west of the "bad" one is the nicest public school in the area (where I live), a mile east is Warren Buffet's house.  But there is little pocket of poors in between and they all shop at Wal Mart.

[dead0man]

Corporations have quite simply reached the limit on what low income Americans can afford to pay. As has been pointed out by others, this proves to some degree how inflation in recent years really has been due to corporate greed. Biden was, unsurprisingly, correct about this.

so they are less greedy now?  Corporations don't change how greedy they are, they are always 100% greedy as they can get away with thus that can't possibly affect inflation.  Inflation is due to there being too much money.