Walmart meat and veggies!

canadacatman
canadacatman Posts: 224 Member
edited November 22 in Food and Nutrition
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
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  • Debmal77
    Debmal77 Posts: 4,770 Member
    I just purchased their black seedless table grapes. Best grapes I have ever tasted.
  • jakegold
    jakegold Posts: 24 Member
    Just keep an eye on the quality of the produce. I don't see a problem with it.
  • gracielynn1011
    gracielynn1011 Posts: 726 Member
    I do. Ours stocks some produce that are grown locally, and they do usually have good meat products. I usually get the 5 lb roll of burger, then separate it out into 1 lb freezer bags. Same with other meats, I get the jumbo packs, and separate it out.

    We've never had a problem with fresh foods that we have gotten there.
  • MsJulesRenee
    MsJulesRenee Posts: 1,180 Member
    Walmart's turn over on food is probably so quick I wouldn't worry too much especially if you live in a big city. A lot of people go grocery shopping at Walmart. Just keep your eye on expiration dates. I have had their ribs before and they were pretty good.
  • abatonfan
    abatonfan Posts: 1,120 Member
    My local walmart tends to be a mixed bag with their fruit/vegetable quality. Some weeks it seems like most of the fruit is already spoiled (like grapes and strawberries with mold on them), while other weeks their fruit is downright amazing.
  • VegasFit
    VegasFit Posts: 1,232 Member
    I prefer buying my meats and veggies at Costco or Trader Joe's. I just find the quality to be better. Anytime I am at Walmart for other items and I buy meat or produce it turns out to be bad or when I open the meat it's full of hidden fat that couldn't be seen in the package. I've had enough of those experiences to avoid that part of the store.
  • Giolis
    Giolis Posts: 1,204 Member
    Shop there all the time. They have such high volume that it's actually fresher then the regular grocery store.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    if it's convenient- then yeah. some of it's good- some of it's great- some of it's crap.

    just shop like you would anywhere else.
  • Valtishia
    Valtishia Posts: 811 Member
    Check the quality (like you would anywhere else) and if you aren't afraid of some price matching (sometimes sales are better elsewhere), they do offer that service :)
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  • Athijade
    Athijade Posts: 3,300 Member
    I have never been happy with the quality of meats at Walmart.

    Then again, I have never been happy with the quality of Walmart in general...
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,668 Member
    I don't know what the issue would be. What are your concerns exactly?
    You can generally evaluate the quality of veggies and meats just by looking at them.
  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
    I once bought a jumbo pack of chicken breasts that had so much broth cook out of them, I would have been better off paying more elsewhere. I don't usually shop there but I hadn't noticed anything wrong with the produce I bought.
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    I only go there when we unexpectedly run out of something or need something that didn't make it onto the grocery list, but it's been perfectly fine.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    My local Wal-mart is very skeevy and the produce is sometimes fine, other times disgusting. It's one of the less good Wal-marts and has forced me to order more from amazon because I hate going there. The one where I used to live was just fine as a store and with their groceries.

    I've been in the only-a-grocery-store Wal-mart grocery stores (the ones with the green signs, I forget what they're called) and they've always seemed just fine.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    I've done Walmart veggies, but I am particular with meats. I LOVE Costco for all that.
  • jessica22222
    jessica22222 Posts: 374 Member
    I only buy my meat from costco. Tried walmart meat once and will never again. Produce I regularly buy from farm stands since I'm so lucky to live close to farms and then my other go to for produce is definitely walmart. I find it's usually pretty good.
  • r6159
    r6159 Posts: 1 Member
    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
    t

    Been shopping there for years and still healthy.

  • LaurenNotLaura
    LaurenNotLaura Posts: 64 Member
    I find my regular grocery store has much better quality of meat/produce.
  • flrancho
    flrancho Posts: 271 Member
    I used to shop there when I was on a tight budget. I don't anymore.

    The quality of the produce and meat especially was poor. Their beef was just down outright awful. Canned/boxed, etc things like salsa, cereals, pasta were fine.
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    JoRocka wrote: »
    if it's convenient- then yeah. some of it's good- some of it's great- some of it's crap.

    just shop like you would anywhere else.

    This. I shop there all the time because it's next to the gym, and the next closest grocery store is a 20 minute drive in traffic.
  • ohmscheeks
    ohmscheeks Posts: 840 Member
    I buy most things at Wal-mart including meat/veg. Meat is good and veggies are good. Of course, like anywhere, you want to look the veg over before taking it home. I would not buy a salad mix that I did not plan to eat same day/night.
  • beemerphile1
    beemerphile1 Posts: 1,710 Member
    Are tomatoes and beef sold at Walmart different somehow than what is sold at some other store? The same wholesaler may actually supply both stores.
  • LaurenNotLaura
    LaurenNotLaura Posts: 64 Member
    beemerphile1 wrote: »
    Are tomatoes and beef sold at Walmart different somehow than what is sold at some other store? The same wholesaler may actually supply both stores.

    It may be the same supplier, but it also may arrive at different locations at different times. Someone closer to the distributor will get fresher produce than those whose produce has to be shipped further. Just a thought.
  • Terri6627
    Terri6627 Posts: 39 Member
    I work in the bakery at a Canadian Walmart Supercentre. I buy almost all my groceries there because I get a lovely 10% discount and it's convenient. Sometimes the produce is crap but it's that way everywhere here because it's so far to ship. We have ridiculous cleaning standards, in comparison to the grocery store I worked in high school (RCSS if anyone cares). If you're not shopping at Walmart specifically because you think it's "dirty" then you're wrong. Also Walmart really isn't evil. I get paid more than minimum wage and get a profit share cheque.
  • Kexessa
    Kexessa Posts: 346 Member
    I never buy meat at Walmart, I only buy it at Publix. At my Walmart all the meat is frozen and just stocked on the shelf. There is no 'fresh' meat at Walmart. At Publix they still have butcher's who cut the meat and will make packages and weights for whatever you want.

    But their produce is fine. They have their own brand called Marketside and they have bags of washed precut fresh butternut squash, snap pea pods, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, asparagus and mixes of these. Carrots too I think but I don't really like carrots so I'm not sure.

    They always have ripe avocados. Publix's avocados are always like bricks. But Publix has better tasting tomatoes. If I'm in Walmart for another reason I definitely will pick up produce if I need it.
  • nicor44
    nicor44 Posts: 26 Member
    The Walmarts around here are hit or miss on meat and produce, but as others have mentioned, it's pretty obvious whether the produce isn't great (same as any grocery store). And the prices of eggs and milk and dairy are higher than the local grocery stores. If I need to stock up on frozen veggies, canned tuna, oats, condiments, things like that, the prices are usually the best.
  • shadowfax_c11
    shadowfax_c11 Posts: 1,942 Member
    laursim1 wrote: »
    beemerphile1 wrote: »
    Are tomatoes and beef sold at Walmart different somehow than what is sold at some other store? The same wholesaler may actually supply both stores.

    It may be the same supplier, but it also may arrive at different locations at different times. Someone closer to the distributor will get fresher produce than those whose produce has to be shipped further. Just a thought.

    These things do travel in refrigerated trucks but this is true. It deos make me ask though. Do you know where the distributors are in your area and do you choose the place you shop based on the proximity to said distributors? For all you know the wal mart could be 5 miles closer to the warehouse than Whole Foods or trader Joes. I honestly have never met anyone who chooses their shopping site based on this information.

    As for Wal Mart. In the past I have done a lot of shopping there and found it to be fine. For me it isn't really an option since I have a lot of grocery store choices within 5 miles of my home, none of which happen to be wal mart.
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    laursim1 wrote: »
    beemerphile1 wrote: »
    Are tomatoes and beef sold at Walmart different somehow than what is sold at some other store? The same wholesaler may actually supply both stores.

    It may be the same supplier, but it also may arrive at different locations at different times. Someone closer to the distributor will get fresher produce than those whose produce has to be shipped further. Just a thought.

    Which would have nothing to do with if it's a walmart or not, just how close which store is to the distributor.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    I personally don't go there (not a fan of their practices and I work for a competitor), but I don't see that it would be any worse off than other grocery stores.
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