“Their meat is expensive and poor quality.”
No, it is not. It is exactly the same meat you get at any chain grocery store. It all comes from the same place (I am referring to meat, not seafood).
The brands and packing houses are the same, and the prices are known to be better than name brand chain grocery stores. The days of a professional butcher in your local supermarket are all but gone.
Sorry...but you are not entirely correct. Meat packers may sell to both Walmart and Krogers, but it is not the same quality.
In many cases Walmart will use a no roll beef ( ungraded) product and Krogers uses choice or select. If you look at pork you will find much of what Walmart uses is pumped with salt solution, soy etc.
Both Walmart and Kroger stores have gone to centralized cutting and a lot of the meat you see at a store was not cut at the store.
I would not buy ‘fresh’ meat at Walmart unless it was the only source available.
The brands and packing houses are the same, and the prices are known to be better than name brand chain grocery stores. The days of a professional butcher in your local supermarket are all but gone.
Walmart beef comes from Tyson or at least did when I saw it being stocked one night. Walmart is the only store in my area 'without' a Butcher on site. It shows. Pork? It can be bought locally and is killed and processed locally. On meats I can go to Ingles and usually get decent prices with better quality and if I want something special the Butcher is there.
For Beef is someone can afford the trip IIRC there is a large packing house in Liberal, Kansas {actual name of town}. Now granted the meat itself may come from just a few processing houses but where it goes from there and how it is cut and handled, temps, etc matters greatly. I've seen meat at Wally I thought about but upon looking at it said no way.
On a side note of how meats can get handled my mom about 50 years ago saw a real eye opener. She was looking for boxes for her sister in law who was moving. This was a grocery chain owned by one man. In the back near the meat dept was a box marked Embalming Fluid {or scientific name} and a local funeral home name on it. No wonder the chicken always smelled rotten being cooked LOL. Chain is gone and owner long dead.