Walmart to Ration Food

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Published: Wed, April 23, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Last Updated: Wed, April 23, 2008 - 3:57 pm
Sam's Club, the membership warehouse
division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is limiting how much rice
customers can buy because of what it calls "recent supply and
demand trends."
The broader chain of Wal-Mart stores has no plans to limit food
purchases, however.
Sam's Club says it will limit customers to four bags at a time
of Jasmine, Basmati and long grain white rice. Rice prices have
been hitting record highs recently on worries about tight supplies.
Sam's Club's restriction is effective immediately at all
locations where quantity restrictions are allowed by law. It does
not apply to other staples such as flour or oil.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Plenty of Oreo’s or plenty of rice?

Posted by Razorsharp on 04/26/08 - 9:01 pm • Report Abuse   

SCARE TACTICS. There is no shortage. There is plenty, the price may be up some but not the supply.

Posted by mycomment on 04/26/08 - 12:42 pm • Report Abuse   

Rice? Why rice? Oreo cookies I could understand...but rice? I don’t get it.

Posted by Razorsharp on 04/23/08 - 5:57 pm • Report Abuse   

Next we will see people downtown selling rice out of dilapidated houses

will be laughing all day about this one and whats funny it could really happen

Posted by rosepetal on 04/23/08 - 5:53 pm • Report Abuse   

Here is a company who pays pennies for their products and then raise the prices to you so you pay a little less than what other’s sell it and now they are gonna tell us how much we can or can’t buy.  their true colors like the oil compaines are greed and me, me, me

Posted by earthlink4@earthlink.net on 04/23/08 - 5:37 pm • Report Abuse   

Next we will see people downtown selling rice out of dilapidated houses.

Posted by BamaBob on 04/23/08 - 3:28 pm • Report Abuse   



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