bread line

dear walmart,


k, i know i recently ranted about you and your incompete employees and their lack of bagging knowledge. so i know i should go complain about someone else for awhile, but you are being annoying again!


i shop my neighborhood walmart almost exclusively. i actually like your store brand, great value. the hubs and i don't notice a taste difference between the GV and name brands, plus the GV is just so fetching cheap. how can you go wrong with that incredible 5 letter word?



but on my most recent trip to my neighborhood market, i noticed something strange on the shelves. they changed the packing on their GV foods. now, normally i wouldn't care. i mean, packaging is packaging. as long as the price doesn't go up. fine by me. but your choice of packaging just is not cool.

what. the. fetch. is. this? the plain white with blue writing? it makes me feel like i am in some sort of bread line in communist russia. not to mention that when i plop down one of these items to check out, i feel like the box is screaming "look at me! the person buying me is so effing poor! they can't even afford proper labels"


now, i am not generally an insecure or self conscious person, but srsly! are you trying to shame me into buying the "real" food? or are you just trying to demoralize me to the point that i just stop eating and don't have to buy any food?


now, i know it's not just you. target has also recently changed their packaging, however theirs isn't quite as paltry looking.

what was wrong with the other packaging? were people getting confused and buying the real shiz instead? were there large groups of angry and confused customers pissed that they bought downy dryer sheets instead of the store brand?



i guess i'd be happier if you were cutting back on packaging costs to pass the savings onto me, the customer, but you aren't. that shiz is the same fetching price!!! sorry, i get quite passionate when it comes to my groceries. i hope that this is just some phase you are going through and will eventually change it back to the way it was.

not resigned to bread lines yet,