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Brand name products are no different at Wal-Mart than the same brand name product at Kroger.
Actually, you're wrong about that.
I've purchased several "name brand" products at Walmart, some of them food items, & the quality was noticeably inferior. It happened too often to just be a random occurrence.
I was never really crazy about Walmart, but when we moved to the small town we now live in, the shopping options were limited, and they still are. Also, in the past couple of years, the merchandise quality, variety of choice, & availability in the local Walmart has gone down & prices have jumped a lot. This includes groceries.
I've turned to shopping Amazon more frequently for these reasons.
I've purchased several "name brand" products at Walmart, some of them food items, & the quality was noticeably inferior. It happened too often to just be a random occurrence.
I've purchased several "name brand" products at Walmart, some of them food items, & the quality was noticeably inferior. It happened too often to just be a random occurrence.
While I don't shop at Walmart, I'd say that your own bias (people are inclined to think that something sold at Walmart must be inferior to something sold at a cleaner and fancier place with more sophisticated clientele, even if the product was from the exact same manufactured lot) is far more likely that Walmart somehow conniving with Acme Brand Stuff to produce crappier stuff for Walmart than they do for, say, Target.
Most people, if given two identical placebos - one labelled Walmart and one labelled Goldman Sachs - would swear to the inefficacy of the former and the tremendous efficacy of the latter. That's just human nature.
I don't shop at Whole Foods and I flatly refuse to have anyone do my grocery shopping for me (I'm way too picky).
Personally I'd like to see Whole Foods disappear. Its raison d'etre no longer exists.
How do you mean? The only way I can think of that this makes sense is that they're no longer the exclusive purveyors of organic food; now nearly every grocery chain has an organic produce section. The difference with WF is that everything else they carry--all the packaged food in the center of the store, also has been vetted to be pesticide-free and made with healthy ingredients. They're careful with sourcing their food. The only area in which they're not up to speed with these standards is with non-GMO dairy; most of their dairy comes from cows fed GMO corn, and their corn products are made with GMO corn.
How do you mean? The only way I can think of that this makes sense is that they're no longer the exclusive purveyors of organic food; now nearly every grocery chain has an organic produce section. The difference with WF is that everything else they carry--all the packaged food in the center of the store, also has been vetted to be pesticide-free and made with healthy ingredients. They're careful with sourcing their food. The only area in which they're not up to speed with these standards is with non-GMO dairy; most of their dairy comes from cows fed GMO corn, and their corn products are made with GMO corn.
Most people don't care, though, and that's why Whole Foods is in financial trouble. Also, most regular Americans can't afford to do their weekly shopping at a store that runs on a philosophy.
Additionally, it's not a one-stop shop for most people and a lot of shoppers, when pressed for time, will switch to a regular supermarket or Wal-Mart over Whole Foods so they don't have to go to multiple stores.
A real-world example: A friend of mine in my neighborhood had a baby a couple of months ago. She buys a lot of the family's food at Whole Foods but buys pretty much everything else at Wal-Mart. The other day she was fretting about how she'd find the time to go to both stores once she goes back to work in a few months' time.
My guess is that she won't. She'll simply do all of her shopping at Wal-Mart, or she'll split the difference and shop at Kroger which has a bigger selection of organic foods.
Well, many companies do have a separate line for Walmart. Dell for example does.
That's not the same thing at all.
A Dell model 409B (just making that up) is the same wherever it is sold.
Hostess cupcakes in Wal-Mart are no different that Hostess cupcakes at Kroger.
Well, please tell me how to send to you, a package of Oreos, a jar of Miracle Whip way before its expiration date that looked funny & made us sick, Chicken of the Sea tuna, same issue, Tyson boneless/skinless chicken breasts & thighs that shrank to nothing after cooking, moldy Dave's Killer bread, produce that appeared fresh from the outside but was rotting from the inside (onions, bananas, avocados) some women's Hane's underpants that fell apart after first washing, Hanes sweatshirts that shrank from the bottom & stretched out in the neckline & cuffs after first washing.
Trust me, I'm no "I hate Walmart just because I can" individual. I just want to get my money's worth.
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