" Fascinating, depressing, a little scary. Shows clearly how the American [and increasingly world-wide] obsession with getting the best deal, the lowest price adversely affects workers, farmers, children. To be trite, it is like Dominoes - if I am only willing to pay $1.00 for a pint of strawberries, that affects the profit of the grocery store which affects what they pay their workers and also what they pay their suppliers. It is much more complicated than that - what effect does Wal-Mart really have locally and internationally? I would have given it 4 stars, but some of the data she quotes is 10 years old - though that may well be the most recent data that is available. And she really doesn't offer much in the way of solutions. For me, look harder for US-made products [good luck, Louise] and shop more at farmers' markets, as well as expand what I grow myself. "
— Helen-Louise, 2/6/2014