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Savvy Community: Wal-Mart or Whole Foods?

This question comes from Allisonberry in the Savvy Savings Challenge group.

This question comes from Allisonberry in the Savvy Savings Challenge group.

My newest dilemma is whether to start shopping at stores like Wal-Mart that are now offering local, organic produce. I've always been a Whole Foods and Trader Joe's junkie, but if they're offering the same products at half the price...should I make the transition over to the dark side? Which is more important: take a stand against unfair labor practices, or satisfy my wallet? What do you think about this topic?

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An Ode to Trader Joe's

Is it a commercial?

Is it a commercial? Is it propaganda? Or is it, as I suspect, pure poetry? This Trader Joe's fan wrote a commercial, complete with off-key singing and awesome lyrics. Who among us, for example, hasn't had our heart's cockles warmed by the thought of how reassuring it is that those lime and chili cashews, balls of ice cream covered in flour and tiny free cups of coffee will (probably) be at TJ's every time we go? And that instead of what's on our list of essentials, we'll end up buying odd little snacks. . .