What the Experts are Saying About Wal-Mart's Economic Impact
Excerpt:
Wal-Mart has lowered retail prices and increased the true disposable income of individuals, then it is likely to have increased personal savings as well.” (The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big-Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy, Richard Vedder and Wendell Cox, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Washington D.C., 2006).
Yay .. for at least SOME good news ... PING!
I WONDER WHEN THEY WILL BE ACCEPTING THE OBAMA FOOD STAMPS?
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I don’t know about where you live, but W-M has been raising prices for the last year. Thus lowering them is just getting back to regular prices.
I’m probably not very bright but I like to buy groceries at the place with the lowest prices. It’s just a goofy quirk that I have.
Wal-Mart is generally lower on canned and boxed foods. For meat and produce they feature mediocre quality and high prices.
They are not even lowest on staple goods sometimes. I eat a couple of snacks at night to settle my stomach. I noticed the local small supermarket is lower on a particular brand of snack cakes than Wal-Mart. On the other hand, for things like rice and beans etc. Wal-Mart is way lower.
3 lb. bag of onions at Aldi’s $1.99
3 lb. bag of onions at W-Mart $2.88
I don’t know. I find myself coming out of Walmart empty-handed more often than not. I buy some groceries from WM that are consistently cheaper than my grocery store but if you shop the sales you can still beat WM prices.
I noticed this evening, while I was waiting 30 minutes for someone to help me buy a treadmill, that many shelves were empty and there were 6 shelfs that had one row of the same product on each shelf. IOW, they could have fit on two shelves, three deep.
I notice that our over-priced hardware store is packed every day and I know that it is because WM is not carrying the diversity of products it used to. I also notice more traffic at K-Mart, it used to be a mausoleum and now the parking lot is full again.
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Walmart’s meat and produce prices are way too high
I read an article last weekend that said Walmart was competing with Whole Foods for the vegetable and fruit shoppers. Taste studies found them to be comparable and cheaper.
The only reason I mention this is...they are trying to use local small farmers.
I think Wal-Mart has done some damage to the mom and pop operations, but using local farmers could end up being a huge deal.
You can't beat 'em - or even come close - on most canned food items, paper goods, etc.
Wally's truly a mixed bag. You save on one aisle, and get hosed on the next.
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This is good news.
I think perhaps you may want to read the Bio's of Walmart's Top Officers before saying that. Read them and you'll understand the decline in quality and quanity of stocked items in Walmart super stores and the smaller ones as well. Senior Management
It's by no means the store you think it is. This is not the same Walmart management who built up the customer base over the past years.
Interesting... Aldi just opened something like 10 stores here in the D/FW Metroplex Thursday... I guess Wal-Mart didn’t want to give an inch to this new-to-Dallas low-price competition.
Under the new rules of engagement, this will be used to justify price controls. You know, to stabilize the economy and save union jobs. The "public use" type of logic that is used to justify eminent domain
Hmmm, a successful company. Well, we can’t have that! I wonder how long before the Muslim PIG and Chewy go after them?
I used to shop at Walmart for my groceries quite a bit, but in the last year or so, I almost always go to Kroger. I find Kroger offer a much larger selection, great sales, and their prices are actually better in the long run. Walmart is turning into the local mini- mart with the reduction of food products offered for sale. Also, I did not find name brand products there as I did before, as it seems like Walmart has gone the way of only stocking store brands for some items.
