Obama and Walmart: Making America Healthier

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

First Lady Michelle Obama Celebrates Walmart’s Progress on Making Food Healthier and More Affordable

Company saves customers $2.3 billion on fresh fruits and vegetables; opens 86 stores serving food deserts; and makes it easier to identify more than 1,300 healthier food options

SPRINGFIELD, Mo, Feb. 28, 2013 – First Lady Michelle Obama visited a Walmart store in Springfield, Mo., today to celebrate the retailer’s progress in making food healthier, more affordable and available to consumers across the country.

"For years, the conventional wisdom said that healthy products simply didn’t sell – that the demand wasn’t there, that higher profits were found elsewhere, so it just wasn’t worth the investment. Thanks to Walmart and so many other great American businesses, we are proving the conventional wisdom wrong,” said First Lady Michelle Obama. “Every day, with their success, these companies are showing us that what’s good for kids and good for family budgets can also be good for business."

http://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2013/02/28/first-lady-michelle-obama-celebrates-walmarts-progress-on-making-food-healthier-more-affordable

[BaBamSam 239]

Oh wow. A thread with "Obama" in the title and an Obama actually in the story. I'm surprised.

Don't know if I would consider Wal Mart remotely healthy - or at least on my list of "healthy" stores, they wouldn't ever rank.

[decocker 7,198]

gotta give credit where due, the title should read "FDA, WALMART & MONSANTO"

[james&olya 1,121]

The words 'Walmart' and 'healthier' cannot logically coexist within a single thought!

[Marilyn. 340]

Super Walmarts sell fresh fruits and veggies, whole wheat pasta, organic milk, no HFCS bread plus a lot of other healthy things...

[himher 634]

Only a democrat would celebrate a "healthy America" surrounded by a group of Walmart hogs

http://freecodesource.com/people-of-walmart/Women-Of-Walmart/