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So how is not buying American going for you? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/canada
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Last trip to the grocery store I couldn't find any non-US salad kits, and Silk NextMilk is made down there now, because I guess our plants were the listeria ones. Chip dip was surprisingly hard to find too, although I did it.

I'm very pleased with how many vegetables actually come from Mexico (definitely via the US though), and there's even a few things you can get from greenhouses, so that situation is less dire than I'd expected.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Great until I went into Dollarama and bought an energy drink and now I need to get two gifts for 6 year olds. Most likely at Walmart 🀦🏼

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know what you did in the end, but literally any store is probably better than Walmart, which is privately owned by the Waltons. Even Costco has shareholders all around the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Walmart is a publicly traded company. The largest shareholder is the Walton Family (50%) with the rest of the shares purchased by investors around the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Oh really? Shit, I missed that, I'm going to have to edit a couple comments.

It's over 50%, according to Wikipedia, so the basic gist still works. It's a Walton company with some outside investors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

[https://www.sec.gov/ixviewer/ix.html?doc=%2FArchives%2Fedgar%2Fdata%2F104169%2F000010416924000078%2Fwmt-20240424.htm#id138cb1433b44120b7c101e226ea4cae_157](SEC Document) I'm still calculating slightly less than 50% of Walmart between the Waltons and their Trust.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Thank you for doing the math, unfortunately SEC won't even load for me.

I'd expect they'd want to keep more, but I guess they could just rely on a small share of the other voting investors to pass whatever they need, since opposition is never perfectly unanimous.

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit 11 points 6 days ago

We bake cookies as kids gifts. We never buy stuff. They chomp the cookies down and the next year ask if we brought them again.