An investigation found “live rodents, dead and decaying rodents, rodent feces, urine and odors,” at a warehouse in Arkansas.

Family Dollar Stores was this week ordered to pay $41.6 million for using a rodent-infested warehouse to distribute food, cosmetics and medical devices to more than 400 stores across the South.

The largest criminal penalty of its kind comes after a U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigation found “live rodents, dead and decaying rodents, rodent feces, urine, and odors, and evidence of gnawing and nesting,” at the company’s distribution center in West Memphis, Arkansas, the Justice Department said in a statement.

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      10 months ago

      Also, if you only have $4, you can’t save money by buying a $5 bag of rice. You have to spend more to buy a bunch of $1 tiny bags of rice one a time.
      It’s cheaper to buy a house that’s well built and maintain it, but then you have a higher upfront cost.
      It’s really expensive being poor.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

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      Yup, I live a mile from one and go fairly frequently because construction makes getting to a grocery store a pain.

      Food prices are definitely higher than an actual grocery store. It’s basically just a large convenience store cosplaying as a discount store.

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      The great thing is that much of the cost savings you would have gotten from the farther grocery store, would evaporate from the automobile transportation cost.