WalMart good, WalMart bad? I shop at the store that best serves my needs, at the moment it’s a local WalMart. If someone does a better overall job I’ll shop there.
I’m with you. I shop where I can buy in bulk at a much lower rate-things like paper products, laundry soap, mouth wash, tooth paste, etc.
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My experiences in shopping at Wal-Mart have been varied. Some OK but some; well not so good.
IMO, Wal-Mart is good as far as prices if you are buying well known and popular name brands but you need to do some research.
For example, I recently bought a rug steam cleaner. After doing a lot of research on-line and going to many stores to compare brands and prices, I decided on Bissel model and Wal-Mart had it $10 cheaper than anyone else so I bought it at Wal-Mart.
OTOH, when I was shopping for a flat screen HD TV and Wal-Mart had some really low prices but then TV’s they had were on the really low end of the consumer satisfaction scale, IMO, cheap in price and cheap in quality. After much research, I bought the TV I wanted on sale at Best Buy for a very good price – a much better TV at the same price that Wal–Mart had for much lesser quality TV’s.
A few years ago I bought some clothes at Wal-Mart, a pair of Capri jeans and a cotton top, very cute and at a very good price. That was at least until the first time I washed them and they literally both fell apart at the seams. Sure they were inexpensive but considering I only wore them twice, they were actually very expensive.
I also tried doing my grocery shopping at Wal-Mart. Some items were definitely a bargain – things like laundry detergent and boxed foods but produce? Not so much. I bought a bag of apples that looked nice on the outside but were all rotten on the inside, the same with the onions, nice on the outside but rotten on the inside. I also bought some frozen foods that were all freezer burned and funky tasting. Another time I bought a set of salt and pepper shakers, they looked nice from the picture and description on the box but when I got them home and opened the box, what from the picture and description seemed to be glass with metal lids, it was all plastic and very cheaply made, not all worth what I paid for them. FWIW, Target, like them or not, has better prices on many groceries items and many other name brand products than Wal-Mart.
OTHO, I recently bought a set of tires for my car at Wal-Mart for a very good price. But then I had to wait nearly 6 hours to have them put on and they lost three out of my four valve stems. : (
I bought a pair of glasses from Wal-Mart a few years ago. The frames fell apart in less than a year. I would never buy eye glass frames from them again.
The other bad experience I had was when I needed to buy a battery for a wrist watch. I went to the jewelry counter to buy the battery but didn’t know the size and needed to have the back taken off the watch, something that required a tool that I didn’t have. When I asked for assistance, the gal at the jewelry counter asked me if I had bought the watch at Wal-Mart and when I said no, she told me something along the lines of “I ain’t touching no watch you didn’t buy here, u gotta go back to where u got it, I ain’t touching that shit.” :( !
I’m not anti Wal-Mart but I’m not pro Wal-Mart either. I try to do a lot of research when buying a big ticket name brand product and if Wal-Mart has the best price for what I want, I will buy from them. But as for doing my regular shopping there; I can do better elsewhere in most cases as far as quality and customer service. Just my opinion.