Posted on 03/06/2024 3:59:49 PM PST by Vendome
Unemployment may be low, jobs plentiful, and consumer spending holding up. However, consumers are still struggling with the rising cost of credit card debt, housing, and automobiles—expenses that defy easy solutions. However, managing the cost of groceries and other essentials, the leading expense for half the respondents in a recent TD Bank survey, is just a click or short drive away.
As consumers pull back on discretionary spending, major retailers in the grocery business are doubling down on the power of private-label brands to build traffic and loyalty. The boom is on.
Amazon, which owns Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh, hopes to transform itself from a high-end, specialty grocer (nicknamed “Whole Paycheck”) into a home delivery vendor of essentials and store-branded goods under private labels with names like Aplenty and Happy Belly. Amazon aims to leverage its last-mile advantage, built over years of development, to do an end run around Walmart
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Aldis prices have gotten way out of hand. I buy canned cat food there, and canned goods like tomatoes and baked beans, and their paper towels, fresh fruits, and snack foods, but that’s about it.
Re: 3 - I have to pick my spots at Whole Foods like other stores.
There’s some items I get from them which are good quality. More expensive but worth it (to me) but I try to shop the sale items when possible. They’re not the major store I go to but more of a supplemental stop.
I live in a rural area and absolutely shop for my own groceries-I’ve followed an all natural and organic diet most of my life-no processed food, non GMO, mostly paleo, no refined sugar, no margarine-only real butter, etc etc. I avoid anything in a can or box. There is a small-chain store out here that you only find in tiny towns in rural areas-Lowe’s Market.
That store caters to the natural-living folks like me-they have good grass-fed free range meat, Texas-grown veggies and most fruit is from here or Mexico, and everything is fresh and organic. It is cheaper than most of the organic groceries at the big box places and supports our local economy. -I’m perfectly happy to make the 18 mile drive there-or stop on my way from work near there-every 2 weeks to get what I want. I do order hair stuff and most cosmetics online-and pet stuff from Chewy-but I get paper goods. trash bags, cleaning supplies at the Lowe’s, too.
Only thing I can get at Whole Foods is Rummo pasta and a big bottle of sake.
Everything else is pretentiously over priced.
Can we expect any better from the professional Fauci worshipers?
We shop for many items such as shampoo and skin lotion, paper towels, etc. on Amazon, but I actually enjoy shopping for groceries at Fry’s (Kroger). I started doing the shopping way back when our first child was a baby. Back then I was often the only male customer in the store. Wives did the shopping. I became an expert at selecting produce and discerning the best price per ounce on products. I could leave the house, do a week’s shopping, and get back home in an hour.
We get our swordfish steaks at Trader Joe’s.
For $98.00 a year they deliver as many times as you need.
(As long as it’s $35.00 or more)
Same with Kroger.
They have a new deal, (Walmart) that I haven’t checked into ... Yet!
They will deliver And put the stuff away for you!😮
Right now, Walmart is cheaper than our dollar store.
“For $98.00 a year they deliver as many times as you need...They will deliver And put the stuff away for you!”
Yeah, I know, but I live out in the boonies and I don’t like strangers coming to my house, and they durn sure ain’t coming inside. I assume you do the delivery; do you tip them and how much?
I enjoy shopping, whether it’s Walmart, H-E-B Central Market, Sam’s Club or Trader Joe’s. I love self check out except at Trader Joe’s where they treat you like a human being and talk with you at checkout.
I’ve gone to Aldi’s a few times recently. It is weird, but I found some things I like among their lookalike brands – and I bought roses to plant on my last trip. They’re doing fantastically in the yard.
You live in California. In Free America, outside of the high crime hellholes, all those stores are moving to MORE self-checkouts, not less.
You have the option to tip or not.
If you tip you pick the amount.
How did you do that?😮
Your post had no one being addressed!?😯
You know how at the very top of a post it has the name of the person you are replying to?
For example: To mrclose.
Your post has none!😬
Never seen that before!🤔
Do you want to send a text to everybody you just type “all” in there.
If you want to type it to nobody in particular just leave it blank.
Thank You!
Now, let’s see if it works!🤣
It Worked!
Yaa-a-a-a!😁
I used to shop Winn-Dixie, but now use Walmart because I save so much. Still buy meat at Winn-Dixie. I prefer to do my own shopping, but my deal is I buy once a month and go shopping right after store opens (6 am my area) and it makes for a fairly pleasant experience as only a few folks shop at that time. My walmart doesn’t lock up much either, so that’s not an issue here.
Walmart lowering prices? I haven’t seen it.
I just went yesterday and bought a few things I needed in one of those half-buggies... For $75!
“You have the option to tip or not.
If you tip you pick the amount.”
Thanks. I knew that. I was talking about you personally. If you don’t want to answer that’s fine. Just curious.
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