Does $1 ketchup (that used to cost $2.42) make you feel better?

I can’t help but question the timing of Wal-Mart’s latest, aggressive, discount campaign and whether it’s meant to placate the teabagging and otherwise disgruntled masses in the face of all the other crap news we’ve been dealing with.

Do you think this might be the case, or is it something more benign such as old fashioned leveraging to run everyone else out of business or just trying to be a bright spot for its customers?

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