Chain food stores and food stamps. Say what?

Then add to that another $2.85 per hour in wages for each employee. I guess we don't need grocery stores either. They could replace most check outs with self check outs and those people would just lost their jobs anyway. A lot of people use their food stamp money for other things than food..

Cons love corporations. I know they scare you with stories of evil goblins coming to take your guns. I know they incite your fear and hatred when they mention black people. I know they wink and tell you that democrats hate America and hate God.

The simple fact is that Reagan fought to relax control over how big banks and corporations could get. That is the reason we have what we have today. Reagan, some may recall, brought us the era of 'hostile takeovers' and eventually brought us "too big to fail."

Six corporations own 95% of the media outlets in our nation. That is also a gift from St Ronnie. Control the info and you control most of the people. Feed them enough lies and they tend to believe them. Right out of the Big Lie chapter of "Mein Kampf."

A better question would be "can rural grocery stores survive without the infusion of food stamps?" Contrary to the right wing meme, a large portion of food stamps go to rural areas where there is little work and where a lot of work pays a low wage. Take them away and stores start to fail.

you have hit on the exact reason we have SNAP in the United States. it is a program run by the Department of Agriculture. why? because it is intended to act as a subsidy for the agricultural industry. it is the reason the farm belt did not suffer in the Great Bush Recession. the purpose of SNAP is to maintain a normal level of demand and thus stabilize prices charged for food. In Europe they use farm production quotas and price fixing for the same effect, but the American plan works with the free market, not against it. It is the Tea Party that does not understand how the economy works, and why they want to "save" poor people from enslavement.

The big stores have lobbyists they won't suffer as much as a Ma and Pa store grocery especially in a rural area.

They are uninvolved with the conspiracy and ignorance that has gripped you.