This is why America is fat—we buy Pop-Tarts and beer instead of survival supplies.

In general, you’d say hurricanes are bad for business. But apparently they’re good for some products—specifically, beer and strawberry Pop-Tarts.

Wal-Mart is good at learning all about it's customers through their buying habits, the company used some groovy software to figure out what Floridians bought as Hurricane Charley approached, and stocked it's stores accordingly for Hurricane Frances.

Survival gear and canned goods weren’t the only go-to categories. Whenever a natural disaster is about to strike, or pretty much at any time of year, the two most valuable products to Wal-Mart costumers seem to be both pop-tarts and beer.

They might not even care about clothing or anything else when beer and pop-tarts pop into their head.

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