If you are a smart shopper Walmart is NOT the place to shop and people are starting to catch on .
You can do much better by shopping sales at most grocery stores and plan your meals according to seasonal sales rather than shopping Walmart for their everyday low prices and not have to put with Walmarts terrible service and obnoxious cashiers .
(especially true if you live in a small town since Walmart charges MUCH higher prices in their small town locations than they do in bigger cities)
Well said, and spot on! I hate Walmart!
Walmarts “not every day low price” items are higher than most stores.
this is the point I made a few weeks ago. They have some stuff there but the prices are about the same at supermarkets if you know how to shop them. The meat is nowhere near the quality of our locals and forget the greens. They have excellent prices on staples like flour, sugar, soups, cereals and bread but you can work the sales and get those, plus better quality meats, fish, vegetables for less.
Within a five minute drive of our closest Walmart, we have five chain supermarkets and a Target that all have weekly and seasonal sales not to mention the big-box stores.
They need to step up their game and make it worth it to shop there more.
Walmart - 24 check out lanes and 2 cashiers. I seriously hate the place! Their prices are nothing special either..especially when it comes to food.
These comments about Walmart always tend to be tied to the local market and demographics. Here, the cashiers are pleasant and many of their customers know them personally. One recently died and a bunch of people went to his memorial. Regarding service, I would say though it isn't the style of the business to have sales staff follow the customers around the stores like Nordstroms or somewhere. In fact, I won't shop anywhere they do that. Many employees are stockers or another specialized position and won't be able to answer questions about products nor should they try. As far as grocery prices, you can often do better with sale prices at pure grocery chains, but if what you want isn't on sale Walmart will be about as low as anywhere. And the Walmart house brand is priced quite low.
Not in my experience. The prices in WM in the regional resort areas are not an iota difference than those in the rural area where I live. The experience in the loca rural ones are also far superior - wonderful staff and no long lines because of ope registers.
What cashiers? I check myself out.
I buy all our meat once a month from a meat market. Cheaper that way. We have a Grocery Outlet right down the street from us and they are definitely cheaper than Walmart. I have cut my food bill by $100 a month and never have to go near our nasty Walmarts.
Price matching at Walmart is common in some circles.
If you are a smart shopper Walmart is NOT the place to shop and people are starting to catch on .
You can do much better by shopping sales at most grocery stores and plan your meals according to seasonal sales rather than shopping Walmart for their everyday low prices and not have to put with Walmarts terrible service and obnoxious cashiers .
(especially true if you live in a small town since Walmart charges MUCH higher prices in their small town locations than they do in bigger cities)
really? that has not been my experience at all, to wit, Gillette foamy shave cream, $1.72, for that last 4 years. same item at the unionized stop and shop $3.39.
Walmart got really lazy with their pricing when they started offering “price matching”. Figured they didn’t have to run as many sales, and that most customers would be too lazy to ask for a price match. That philosophy is biting them. They were right that most customers didn’t bother with the price match, but those same customers apparently noticed that, overall, things were cheaper elsewhere.
In my area (practically urban, between Newark & Jersey City NJ) Wal-Mart is noticeably cheaper than grocery stores. We lost our Pathmark after Wal-Mart opened, and I expect we’ll lose our K-Mart as well. The only way shopping in Wal-Mart is bearable is to go very early; the worst of the workers and shoppers are still asleep.
To not shop Walmart you have to have some where else to shop. We don’t have much of that in our county.
Not to mention the clientele.
I agree, you won't get the sale prices at Walmart.
Anybody been to Costco lately? It's a horror show. Prices have, in many instances, doubled from what they were 4-5 years ago.
We are getting a WinCo. right around the corner from Walmart, Sam's and Costco. It should hit them all in the pocket pretty good.
Buying food is getting ridiculous. I was in Sweden this summer and much of the grocery prices THERE were on par or even cheaper than ours now. (ground beef, for instance was cheaper in Stockholm than here.) What's that tell you?
Walmart just doesn’t work for my large family anymore. I still go there probably once a week but I seldom purchase more than $50 anymore. I’ve switched to Costco and I just end up with more for my money. I do like Wholefoods but for now I just can’t afford the premium price but plan to resume shopping there beginning of next year but only for those specialty items that I like. If I’m going to shop based on the overall experience Target wins hands down.