agman said:
Econ101 said:
Agman, Sam's store is not my argument, however, if we have the same goofy full of holes system for Walmart as Sam's (owned by same) and some of the same suppliers, there is an issue with the validity of Sam's statement of calling their meat "USDA Choice" also.
Once the integrity of the system is in question, it pervades the industry. It is like consumer confidence. Does the boardroom at Sam's not allow the fraud but the boardroom of Walmart does?
What about the USDA? Do they have different standards of enforcement?
What is wrong to identify their meat as USDA choice when it is grade as such by USDA graders? The only goofy holes are in the stream of misinformation that you deal in constantly.
Wal-Mart does NOT identify their meat as Choice, which it is not. What a fairy tale world you live in.
Well, Agman, are you the liar or are the store employees at Walmart lying?
Walmart employee underlings identified, when asked, their meat as being USDA Grade A meat. There is no such grading system. There is a classification of maturity for A but no grade.
When pressed and they called the over all meat manager, his the reply relayed on the phone (the guy was on the phone talking to the overall meat case manager---or so he said) was that the meat was USDA Grade A meat, when pressed further and I told him that wasn't a grade, the answer was relayed that it was USDA Choice. Now either you are not correct about Walmart selling the meat that is in the meat case as choice when it is really Select, and the lady on the phone with the toll free number is lying about the meat from Tyson being Select, or the store employees and the store manager are misrepresenting the USDA grade at the store.
Which one is it?
Of course we know that USDA inspectors will probably never catch this fraud because they have to identify themselves before asking these questions at the meat counter. They are not allowed to ask any questions without identifying themselves. Only the dumbest Walmart managers would mess that question up after the inspector identified himself.
In addition to that hurdle for good enforcement, the meat inspectors are not allowed to give ANY penalty. That comes under different authority of misrepresentation of food items codes in the stores.
The beef side of this industry has made sure that they are insulated from the frauds they are involved with in the industry by little or no government enforcement from the USDA.
Is there a reason the meat inspectors don't do their job adequately? Go ask the meat interviewer whose interview I posted on the this forum. The USDA is doing EVERYTHING it can to not enforce the law against packers.
It is a total shame.