I've been shopping at Costco for about 10 years, and I don't see a plethora of "fat asses". Most people and everyone with a family should be shopping Costco, Sams, or the like.
Generally true, but you could eat even cheaper (and much healthier) with low-cost vegetables (dried beans, fresh carrots, etc.) Of course, if your kids are raised on fast food and chips, they probably won't be thrilled about bean soup for dinner, but nonetheless it's true.
People have a taste for starchy, salty, sweet things. Parents have an obligation to their kids to not let them go hog wild on such "foods".
Obesity is out of control in Georgia. A walk through a Walmart or Sams here looks like a cattle call.
I think they know that, I hear them talk the talk, but they don't have the energy nor the discipline themselves to follow through.
Isn't that what parenting is all about? Making the kids do what's right or good for them in spite of their protests? I understand many don't, of course.
It is all about the demographic. Look at the lower level of education of those you reference. Higher percentage of smokers as well. Divorce rate is higher. WMT picks their locations based on demographic (eg. lower income, lower education, etc). Doesn't have anything to do with cost of food. It is about choices and lifestyle.
Not true where I live. WMT Superstore in a big shopping complex, few blocks away from a golf course. I don't shop there... actually get a negative vibe from the place. I bypass WMT and shop at Costco about 10 miles further away.
There is a really amazing negative vibe to it. Hard to describe... almost like walking into Jonestown while they're drinking the KoolAid. "All these people are demented and doomed. And I'm weirdly tempted to join them."