Walmart meat and veggies!

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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...