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So how is not buying American going for you? (lemmy.sdf.org)
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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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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] Slax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] Slax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

[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.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days 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.

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