Anyone who has shopped at WalMart knows the EBT Food Stamp crowd swipes away our tax dollars there.
Don’t go there on the 1st or 15th.
I got an email from Wal-Mart today. I glanced at their Black Friday specials which is what the email was about.
The one thing which caught my eye is they will have all firearms reduced 20% on one day.
Hey, discounted meat on it’s last day of sale is about the only way my family can stay as meat-eaters these days. $6 a pound hamburger, cheaper if you accept a certain percentage of pink slime? Why the heck didn’t we hear that in campaign ads? If I plan to cook it that day, the discount leaves more money for the FReepathon.
Wow. Their core customer base is people with food stamps??
They are profiting from the war on poverty aren’t they?
I view a trip to Walmart as a trip to a casino.
Sometimes they have all the items I want and I win, sometimes they are out of stock on 50% of my items. I lose.
Most of the time, I don’t want the hassle.
This is what killed them.
The last significant thing I bought at a Walmart was a Henry 22 rifle made in USA.
I rarely shop there. I view their business model as being profitable to the Walton family but harmful to Americans and especially the USA taxpayers that subsidize them on many levels from food stamps to health care.
They are a global corporation that has no allegiance (except China) especially to the USA. They build a warehouse so they can profit, while they have their palm out to politicians who come out of the woodwork giving them special crony benefits. Capitalism was once based upon taking a risk by investment. Today it is about lobbyists working the tax code and economic development so that taxpayers take the risk and the crony global capitalist businesses reap the rewards.
WMT would be the last place I’d trust to buy food, but that’s just my opinion. You buy it where you want.
Walmart was a better store back in the day when the old man was alive. I’ve started shopping at a German grocery store here in the States called ALDI. The prices are like 1985. Check them out if you have one around.
Does anyone have a link to an article explaining the "reduction in U.S. food stamp benefits?"
I ask because every client I interview at a local food/clothing bank has seen a substantial increase in food stamps in the last month or so.
Here's a real kick: about 50% of the interviewees are unaware they got an increase.
I buy the reduced for quick sale meat at Walmart. Lots of times it’s “yellow-tagged” several days before the sell by date. I’ve done that for years.
Several years ago, as long as I got there before 9:00am, I could always find yellow tag deals. Nowadays, there are folks waiting around at 7:30am for the guy to come out, and do the mark downs.
Their meat is expensive and poor quality.
We shop at WalMart because we can’t afford to shop anywhere else. Won’t buy their meat though - I once knew a guy that got fired from WalMart as a meat manager because he threatened to blow the whistle on shady redating practices (or so he said at the time - he may have just been deadwood). The problem is that they rarely restock and the store is out of at least 2-3 items per week that we need.
Instituting a "business-casual" standard would be nice.
When it comes to Wal-Mart...I never go to the front door. I always enter and exit through the Auto Service Center or the Garden Center.
I don’t mix with the FSA if I can avoid it.
Soon, they will be the only place we can shop. Only one bank coming soon.
Walmart stores need quality control in the stores themselves and have the authority to pre-order high volume items making certain shelves stay stocked all days of the month.
Their produce is hit and miss. For the last month the Grape Tomatoes were premium priced and were wasting away because the containers were full of Gnats. Yes they have no bananas either sold out usually or green as a gourd a week away from ripe even in a paper poke. Canned foods? Lacking in name brand saturated in Great Value store name brand. Usually Ingles can beat Wally's Price and has name brands. Wally is no longer the cheapest and hasn't been for some time now. Paper towels? Hey how about a six pack roll {non select a size} kept in stock I don't need a dozen or fifteen rolls of it.
The rest of the store pretty much lack of inventory on a consistent level. I bought a jacket the first of the month got it home the entire back bottom of it was missing the entire stitches for 6 inches. I took it back for an exchange. Got exchange home zipper dysfunctional and loose strands in the seems. Shoe Dept? Stop the blasted Unisex nonsense. Same with clothing you can no longer tell where one section ends and other begins.
The backward Super Walmarts where the food section is on the right have the worst layouts storewide. The aisles are such it's like a labyrinth. If Walmart is real serious about increasing profits they should listen to managers who interact with the customers. Walmart Corp used to answer complaints. I've talked to a VP before but that was years ago. Today you make any suggestion or complain and it gets referred to a clerk at the local store who has no ability or authority to address any issues nordo the managers most of the time. Bentonville micromanages each shelf.
Those are some of the reasons Walmart is not doing well. Bring back Layaway. Charge a small reasonable fee if needed. Bigger ticket items can be bought and paid for in 90 days, are secure in the store until paid off. A win/win for all. Walmart's in store on time inventory system is anything but on time and when it's not on time nobody follows through. Show a clerk a missing item and you'll hear "We have six of them on the shelf". They look at the scanner not the shelves themselves and aren't comparing the products present to product code.
I think Wal-Mart went too far in trying to also be a grocery store, especially with competition like Kroger. The grocery business is very competitive, and unless you fully commit to it, you are asking to be punished.
Kroger is a composite of 42 different store chains, and while they do branch into dry goods, their core is definitely groceries.
It would help if once in a blue moon Walmart put something on sale.
For groceries, I stick to Kroger(sales and 20-30% per gallon discounts on gas) and Publix(great BOGOs).
Actually I don’t spend a lot of my food stamps at W-M. Maybe $30-$40 of the $194. Depends on sales and if I can shop out of town.Mostly staples and price matching.
I spend it at a local grocery store, local outlet of a food service and at Kroger and Aldi’s when I go to my doctor appointments. I try to get sale items.
I also don’t buy a lot of junk food.
It’s partly a management problem. I’d been checking intermittently for several weeks for eyeglass cleaning pads - the slot was empty. I finally asked for help and the employee checked her handheld device and found there was a huge box of the things in the back that had never been put on the shelf. She brought them out and restocked but, how many sales did they miss during that time?