Walmart meat and veggies!

MondayJune22nd2015

I personally don't care for Walmart because of their business practices but as the saying goes "Beggars can't be choosers" & so I must shop there. I've only bought their 96/4 Ground Beef & found no problems with it but that was approximately 2 years ago. I recently went to buy Green Giant iceberg lettuce, they were all slimy; which was unusual & their garlic was filthy.

melimomTARDIS

I tend to buy shelf stable stuff at walmart, that my local grocer doesnt carry/cant get in. I live in a rural community, so certain tinned/boxed items arent available locally, at all.

Off the top of my head- I stock up on fiber one cereal, canned vegetarian chili,rice cakes,veggie burgers/veggie dogs, sparkling water, my haircolor etc.

At my local store I buy all my fresh food, and try to only drive up to the big walmart 1x a month. If you lived close to a big walmart, it might be worth it to shop there, but walmart tends to not run the types of sales a traditional grocer does, so you may end up spending more money than you have to.

ie- my local (and only) grocery store has a sale this week on yogurts, which are 10 cups for 4 dollars. I dont see those sorts of sales at the walmart.

brandi712

Walmart is the only place around me that I can find 90% lean 10% fat (or leaner) ground beef

JenSD6

We have a new Walmart Supercentre near us, and I find the produce can often be better in quality and price than Superstore. We grocery shop at either Walmart or Superstore, just depending on what end of town we're in. The meat at Walmart, however, is pretty bad from my experience. I won't buy it there anymore.

amwoidyla

The Wal-Mart where I live has consistently good produce and the cheapest price ($1.99/lb) for chicken breast. Beef is expensive everywhere, oddly enough for living in the midwest.

Need2Exerc1se

The produce at the Wal-Mart nearest to be me is crap. Even when it looks good, it tends to go bad more quickly than that purchased at other groceries. The meat is fine, but since there a Sam's Club in the same shopping center and it's even cheaper there, I rarely buy meat at Wal-Mart. Plus, Wal-Mart has very little seafood.

mkakids

I wont...but just because they are ridiculously overpriced 99% of the time.

jsjzisj

Their produce is GREAT... their meat is awful and usually expires that very day or the next day

lseed87

I love super walmarts. I would compare to other stores but see nothing wrong with it

andrikosDE

When I lived in the US, i'd rather chop my arm off than set my foot in that place.
My places were the farmer's market, asian market, trader joe's and costco. Oh the $$$ I spent at Costco...

Pinnacle_IAO

canadacatman wrote: »

Our walmart just got a full on grocery part in it. I see the flyers every week and the meat and veggie deals are great but I just can not get myself to buy them there. It is just because it was a store now full on grocery store too.

Does any members here buy there meat and veggies there.

Thanks

I love WalMart.
The meats and veggies are fine, and nobody beats the prices at WalMart - not around here. We buy weekly with a special trip to a farmer's market for items they won't stock...like un-pasteurized milk and cheeses.

And WalMart employs many in our community with little employee turnover.
We know the names of so many of these workers from the greeters to the cashiers and even most of the managers.

Kexessa

andrikosDE wrote: »

When I lived in the US, i'd rather chop my arm off than set my foot in that place.
My places were the farmer's market, asian market, trader joe's and costco. Oh the $$$ I spent at Costco...

Sometimes it just isn't a choice. My dog is diabetic. Her insulin costs $169+ at Walgreens, CVS, Publix. That is for 1 bottle. I get the exact, identical bottle of insulin at Walmart for $24.88.

Her syringes are $30+ everywhere else and are $12.99 at Walmart.

I happily skip into Walmart because it translates into saving my dog's life.

andrikosDE

Kexessa wrote: »

andrikosDE wrote: »

When I lived in the US, i'd rather chop my arm off than set my foot in that place.
My places were the farmer's market, asian market, trader joe's and costco. Oh the $$$ I spent at Costco...

Sometimes it just isn't a choice. My dog is diabetic. Her insulin costs $169+ at Walgreens, CVS, Publix. That is for 1 bottle. I get the exact, identical bottle of insulin at Walmart for $24.88.

Her syringes are $30+ everywhere else and are $12.99 at Walmart.

I happily skip into Walmart because it translates into saving my dog's life.

Interesting.
Back in the early '00s I'd buy the syringes and insulin for our diabetic german shepherd at walgreens for about $20/mo.
I would shoot the poor thing twice a day. Never complained...

cwolfman13

canadacatman wrote: »

Our walmart just got a full on grocery part in it. I see the flyers every week and the meat and veggie deals are great but I just can not get myself to buy them there. It is just because it was a store now full on grocery store too.

Does any members here buy there meat and veggies there.

Thanks

there are tons of Wal-Marts that also have grocery...it's like any other grocery store

corgicake

Walmarts in my neck of the woods have groceries but they're prone to running out of anything the regular grocery stores marked down so I only get things like cases of ramen there. I also know people who plop down a list of items and page numbers from everybody else's ads at the register and this works for them. For reasons I don't get, the exception to this is energy drinks. People who never binge buy anything else will load their carts with dollar rockstars in a heartbeat but they're allergic to doing it on a price match.

melimomTARDIS

Pinnacle_IAO wrote: »

canadacatman wrote: »

Our walmart just got a full on grocery part in it. I see the flyers every week and the meat and veggie deals are great but I just can not get myself to buy them there. It is just because it was a store now full on grocery store too.

Does any members here buy there meat and veggies there.

Thanks

I love WalMart.
The meats and veggies are fine, and nobody beats the prices at WalMart - not around here. We buy weekly with a special trip to a farmer's market for items they won't stock...like un-pasteurized milk and cheeses.

And WalMart employs many in our community with little employee turnover.
We know the names of so many of these workers from the greeters to the cashiers and even most of the managers.

This is my experience with walmart as well. I live in a rural area where a lot of people get paid "under the table" way less then what walmart is offering hourly. The local diner pays 4.25 per hour, plus whatever tips you make.

Not that walmart is a great job, or anything, but if you are comparing apples to apples, there are worse places to work. I am not speaking theoretically, I am not college educated, and my resume (if I had one) would read "cashier, waitress and housekeeper" as the different jobs I have held.

I do support the local grocery store (the ONLY grocery store in my teeny town) but they cant stock everything I need. The distribution trucks wont even come to a small town like ours.

So i utilize the walmart which is about a 1/2 hour drive away.

mkakids

Im surprised that the prices for some are better at walmart than other grocery stores. At Walmart yesterday, I saw a medium sized seedless watermelon for $5.99. A similar sized seedless watermelon at a grocery store just a few minutes from walmart was $2.99. Bl/SL chicken breast is $3.99/lb at walmart. I can get it for $1.99/lb (sometimes less) at other stores. A gallon of 2% milk at walmart is $2.89. At aldi down the street from WM its $1.67.

mewilliams11

I've bought meat at Walmart on several different occasions & have been disappointed every time. The meat often has a slimy touch & a bad smell. I've heard several people say the same. I prefer buying my meat at a store that has a butcher in house & not just pre-packaged.

Also their produce is a hit & miss. Grapes are usually ok, but their bananas, strawberries, lettuce, potatoes never seem to last long before they ruin.

Kexessa

mkakids wrote: »

A gallon of 2% milk at walmart is $2.89. At aldi down the street from WM its $1.67.

A gallon of milk at my Walmart is $4.09. We have a discount store similar to Aldi called Save A Lot and their milk is $3.29 the absolutely cheapest in town.

@andrikosDE Thankfully I've never been diabetic and before her diagnosis I have never had to buy diabetic supplies. She was just diagnosed 2 months ago. I have no idea why the price if insulin is so high at other places and so low at Walmart.

auddii

I downloaded the app for walmart, and I scan my reciepts. If there's a cheaper price, the give me the difference in price as an online gift card.

Packerjohn

auddii wrote: »

I downloaded the app for walmart, and I scan my reciepts. If there's a cheaper price, the give me the difference in price as an online gift card.

Yep, good deal with the app. The Walmart we go to is one of their highest volume stores. Stuff there is virtually always fresh. There is also a Meijer (regional supercenter type store) and Aldi within 2 blocks of the store so prices are always super competitive.

ShrinkinMel

The quality can vary. I don't care for the meat really. And it rarely beats my Kroger store price wise. Veggies I go to the Fry's(Kroger store) or Sprouts a growing "farmer's market" chain its in many states but not nation wide yet that I know of. I'd really like to find some local actual farmer's markets and get more local produce to see if it tastes better than the under or over ripe stuff I usually am stuck with at stores. I found a grass fed beef farm(well the have eggs, chicken and even wild caught fish) close by and may try out the start pack runs about $118 for quite a bit of meat.

LOL guess you're in Canada? So now I get why your Walmart JUST got groceries/food. Ours have been full on grocery stores for a while now. They even have actual neighborhood market stores by us that are smaller and carry groceries and only the usual GM goods you can find at grocery stores.

mallory_2014

Grocery stores get their produce from the same distribution centre. Same batch of produce as other stores

anewghost

The produce is iffy sometimes at my walmart, and their meat prices are higher than the sales at kroger or meijer for the most part. I usually just buy stuff from the non grocery sections.