{"id":22,"date":"2008-02-06T01:21:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T07:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2008-02-06T01:21:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T07:21:11","slug":"capitalism-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Capitalism Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do most all of my shopping at <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=consumers+iga,&amp;near=Stillwater,+OK&amp;fb=1&amp;view=text&amp;latlng=36115520,-97069458,13674754184993719172\">Consumer&#8217;s IGA<\/a>. They&#8217;re usually cheaper and, in my opinion, the quality of food (especially meats!) is better than the competition in town&#8211;the two Super-Walmarts. For example, milk has always been cheaper at Consumer&#8217;s. Most of the time you can catch milk on sale for $2.99 per gallon. Milk at Walmart in comparison is almost always $1 more. Even though I live less than a mile away from Walmart, and Consumers is a drive into town, I&#8217;ll always plan to get milk at Consumer&#8217;s. I believe everyone else was doing this, too. And what do I see when I drop by Walmart to pick up some cocoa for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianschettler.com\/lifegroup\">lifegroup<\/a> tonight? Milk for $2.99 per gallon. And to think&#8230;would they have had any reason to drop the price if there was no competition?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do most all of my shopping at Consumer&#8217;s IGA. They&#8217;re usually cheaper and, in my opinion, the quality of food (especially meats!) is better than the competition in town&#8211;the two Super-Walmarts. For example, milk has always been cheaper at Consumer&#8217;s. Most of the time you can catch milk on sale for $2.99 per gallon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,36],"tags":[58,271,266,38,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}