My grocery chains (Publix is one of them) are price-gouging outrageously.....some of their aisles are almost empty of many products due to no trucks coming in.
My neighbors are doing WalMart likewise. You can save up to 40% on countless items.
Leni
“You can save up to 40% on countless items.”
I hate to admit I go to Walmart, but you’re absolutely right. I buy the same stuff every trip. When I go somewhere else everything is at least 20% higher. However, I haven’t actually been in Walmart in probably almost a year. Their curbside pick up service is the best thing ever invented. If I’m buying beef I go somewhere else, though.
The virtue signalling here at FR wrt Walmart is ridiculous. In many rural areas it’s WallyWorld or a 30+mile drive. Of course, the demographics of my area are quite different than that of those complaining about Walmart on this thread. I just can’t understand why people would live in places like that.🤔
I’ve tried shopping at WalMart but my experiences?
Bought a bag of apples that looked nice on the outside, but every single apple was brown and rotten on the inside. Every. Single. One. Ended up throwing them all away.
Bought a summer top and a pair of capri pants, very cute and inexpensive. The first time I washed them (and yes, I looked at the label and followed the laundry instructions) but they both literally fell apart at the seams in the washer, on the gentle cycle BTW. It would have been an inexpensive purchase had I gotten at least a season’s worth of wear out them but rather expensive for a one-time wear.
Bought a bag of frozen broccoli. Opened the bag and it was full of ice, and the broccoli severely freezer burned and tasteless, inedible, tossed in the trash.
Just before hosting a Thanksgiving dinner, I purchased a set of what was labeled “crystal” salt and pepper shakers. Very pretty on the picture on the box, the words “crystal” all over the packaging, no mention of “plastic” and “what a bargain”. But the shakers were plastic as where the lids that didn’t even fit or seal properly so if you tried to use them, the lids would either fall off or leak at the seal, so you’d have a pile of salt and pepper on your plate. Too cheap to bother taking back.
Purchased tires at WalMart once, and only once. They didn’t install them right and I had two flats within a week plus they never put on the stem valve covers.
My then boyfriend convinced me to get my eyeglasses at WalMart because it was so much less expensive than other places. And it was. But within the first week, one of the lenses fell out. A few weeks later the other lens. Then the screws fell out and buying an eye glass repair set didn’t help because those replacement screws wouldn’t stay in. Then the nose piece broke off. I went back to WalMart several times to get them repaired or replaced and got nowhere and ended up getting a pair at LensCrafters. So, while I initially saved money, what it cost me in trips back to WalMart and getting no satisfaction, trying to repair them myself and replacing them by going somewhere else, cost me a lot more than I saved.
Let’s just say I’m not a WalMart fan.
After all the anti-Wal*Mart Freepers here, it’s nice to find someone who actually likes WMT. I do also. I’ve never had any problem at a WMT here in Aiken County, SC. I’m there at least twice a week.
Great low prices, especially on the Great Value house brands. Beat Publix and Kroger really bad.