Post: #1

This is upsetting. I am not a socialist by any means, and I think that Obama's Heathcare Reform is a joke in how its written.

But, the idea of children in the U.S.A., or anyone for that matter, going hungry is completely intolerable to me. We can afford to spend billions of dollars every month on wars, but we can't keep our citizens from going hungry?

So, Why would somebody buy baby formula at midnight?

Bill Simon, the head of Wal-Mart's U.S. operations, answered this question in a talk last week.

Quote:And you need not go further than one of our stores on midnight at the end of the month. And it's real interesting to watch, about 11 p.m., customers start to come in and shop, fill their grocery basket with basic items, baby formula, milk, bread, eggs, and continue to shop and mill about the store until midnight, when ... government electronic benefits cards get activated and then the checkout starts and occurs. And our sales for those first few hours on the first of the month are substantially and significantly higher.

And if you really think about it, the only reason somebody gets out in the middle of the night and buys baby formula is that they need it, and they've been waiting for it. Otherwise, we are open 24 hours — come at 5 a.m., come at 7 a.m., come at 10 a.m. But if you are there at midnight, you are there for a reason

Post: #2

I know two men that drive sales/delivery trucks to the inner city for a local potato chip / snack food company and they say the same thing. Last week of the month it's dead - first week (after the government hand outs) boom time!