@AutisticInnovator@autistics.life
2026-05-04 16:21 UTC
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@AutisticInnovator@autistics.life 2026-05-04 16:42
This is the most wtf price drop I’ve seen in this Walmart rollbacks list. That is some significant scamming Texas SNAP.
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@KolaMagpie@this.mouse.rocks 2026-05-04 16:36
@AutisticInnovator Raising the prices on poor people, lowering prices for those who can afford it anyway. Yet another example of how expensive it is to be poor
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@the5thColumnist@ottawa.place 2026-05-04 18:23
@AutisticInnovator Bread and Roses Bread And Candy
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@Da_Gut@dice.camp 2026-05-04 19:03
@AutisticInnovator I will be double checking Walmarts in Texas tonight to verify. I’m not in Texas, but it’s not hard to double check that information anyway.
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@ronzegers@mastodon.nl 2026-05-04 21:16
@AutisticInnovator For non- US readers—> “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps people buy the food they need for good health. People can buy: Fruits, vegetables, garden seeds, and plants that produce food. Milk, milk substitutes and other dairy products. Bread and cereal. Meat, fish and poultry.” via https://www.hhs.texas.gov/services/food/snap-food-benefits
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@float13@masto.hackers.town 2026-05-04 23:01
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@cwicseolfor@zeroes.ca 2026-05-04 23:17
@AutisticInnovator So many of these foods are aimed at kids, and parents with kids are by far most likely to be benefits recipients because of the aforementioned inhumane qualifications. Walmart of course is among the worst offenders paying its workers so little, though I wouldn’t be surprised to see prices on these items suppressed for a while at most retail grocers, because the inequality split is severe - swelling ranks of poor to a shrinking pool of wealthy - they’re going to see a demand crash that eventually starts impacting their ability to turn over before the best-by date. I wonder if they’ll start raising prices again in a month or six, though, especially if all other foods begin to rise given the fuels crisis in the works. Hopefully demand will fall and stay down, new (but still joyful, not ascetic) food habits will prevail, and Frito-Lay, Walmart, et alia can get stuffed on their profit-seeking at the expense of the poor. Maybe this is the time for budget-focused creators with an eye to affordable pleasures to blow up (Kiki Rough is one of my favorites) and the rest of us to start swapping recipes.
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@MissGayle@urbanists.social 2026-05-05 00:27
@AutisticInnovator Of course they were. The Waltons are republicans. Stealing from the poor and the state are their two favorite pastimes.
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@ricci@discuss.systems 2026-05-05 01:11
@AutisticInnovator this is super interesting, I'm generally against these kinds of limitations because I feel like the state should not be parentally policing what people do with their benefits money, but had not realized that it was causing some of these effects
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@JamisonAlexander@mastodon.social 2026-05-05 01:11
@AutisticInnovator this is something I believe the book Vulture Capitalism touched on a bit & other Econ scholars, that by the Gov subsidizing farmers to make food & routing the excess products into snap the prices inflated because there was always a market. This is not to say SNAP was bad, clearly Walmart and co, exploited this to siphon off profits. The gov’t should have clamped down hard on this, since the dept of agr. pays for food dev which is bought by the gov through SNAP.
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@grumble209@kolektiva.social 2026-05-05 01:33
@AutisticInnovator We don't have to live like this. The people who make decisions to gouge prices like that have names and addresses.
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@soccermoviemom@sfba.social 2026-05-05 01:51
@AutisticInnovator Are you sure this new strategy isn't just a loss-leader, like the $1.50 Costco hot dog?
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@rootwyrm@weird.autos 2026-05-05 02:07
@AutisticInnovator this is a whole thing with every store, not just Walmart. We have a local discount chain here. Most prices are competitive or highly competitive. EXCEPT for certain SNAP/WIC items. Milk, eggs, butter, competitive. Kraft singles, 16ct, the only one you can buy WIC, $5.09. Walmart, $3.86. JIF Peanut Butter, can only buy 16oz. $3.59. Walmart, $2.98. It's not just Walmart. It's *ALL* of them. They know they have captive customers, and agencies that won't question prices.
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@WideEyedCurious@mstdn.social 2026-05-05 02:12
@AutisticInnovator corporate fraud!
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@chebra@mstdn.io 2026-05-05 02:19
@AutisticInnovator btw exactly the same thing will happen if Universal Basic Income is ever implemented, nobody is talking about this
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@1337@techhub.social 2026-05-05 02:37
@AutisticInnovator Checks out. I checked my local Texas Walmart Rollback section, and then one in Ohio, and it is quite a different selection of items on Rollback. (You can still buy chips on Texas SNAP; just not candy and drinks with added sugar).
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@light@noc.social 2026-05-05 10:38
@AutisticInnovator A "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program" only just now can't be used to buy non-nutritious food? I guess RFK Jr did something good.
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@randrews@somewhy.net 2026-05-05 12:59
@AutisticInnovator @light It’s true. Just looked on HEB’s site, price dropped from $8.50 to $5 for a twelve pack of Dr Pepper. The stuff I buy is still expensive though, meat and other actual foods. Stupid SNAP, should kill the whole program.