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.........the awful way they treat their employees, ........
Walmart employees here get a couple of dollars more than minimum wage and minimum wage is nearly $10. They get health insurance, sick leave, and paid vacations.
Walmart hires people that other businesses wouldn't touch. There is no reason to have an elderly or handicapped greeter except to give a job to a person who needs a job and can't find one elsewhere.
Walmart pays better than Target, which is the store that knee-jerk Walmart haters frequent to buy the exact same goods, manufactured in exactly the same foreign country.
Walmart does sell made-in-the-USA goods when they can get them. A lot of things aren't made in America any more. Our Walmart does buy and sell local produce, when it is available.
Our local Walmart makes large donations to local charities.
Maybe in your area, Walmart hires a slave master to walk the aisles and whip the employees, and takes his salary out of the employees' paycheck? Maybe I am not in the local Walmart to see all the abuse?
I don't shop Walmart but only becasue I have other places I shop. I don't have any automatic dislike for Walmart, based on "just because"..
Walmart employees here get a couple of dollars more than minimum wage and minimum wage is nearly $10. They get health insurance, sick leave, and paid vacations.
Walmart hires people that other businesses wouldn't touch. There is no reason to have an elderly or handicapped greeter except to give a job to a person who needs a job and can't find one elsewhere.
Walmart pays better than Target, which is the store that knee-jerk Walmart haters frequent to buy the exact same goods, manufactured in exactly the same foreign country.
Walmart does sell made-in-the-USA goods when they can get them. A lot of things aren't made in America any more. Our Walmart does buy and sell local produce, when it is available.
Our local Walmart makes large donations to local charities.
Maybe in your area, Walmart hires a slave master to walk the aisles and whip the employees, and takes his salary out of the employees' paycheck? Maybe I am not in the local Walmart to see all the abuse?
I don't shop Walmart but only becasue I have other places I shop. I don't have any automatic dislike for Walmart, based on "just because"..
Cida mentioned she/he hadn't been to one in years and yet thinks they can judge what the company is like. I am not a huge WalMart shopper. If I am in a hurry and just want a couple of items or I need to pick up things in several dept like nursery, a little food, maybe a bottle of wine and a greeting card I will use them as it is faster. We live in a small town without a lot of shopping choices so there are times when it makes good sense and saves gas just to go to WalMart, but it isn't my favorite store for sure.
While I don't enjoy shopping at Walmart because it's a free-for-all in the aisles and all of their carts are a pain with clanging around they store, they do have good every day prices for those times when my regular grocery stores aren't running sales. I'm usually in Walmart twice a month, mostly to buy a few items that other local stores don't carry. They're also cheaper on many drugstore items, and I like their generic Equate brand.
Two bad things I have found is that the prices don't always ring in accurately and they always have problems with coupons. I'm very careful with coupons to make sure they're good, and I hate having to pull the already bagged item out to prove the coupon is good. Even then, I've had cashiers reject them, which keeps me from coming back for a good while.
Walmart gets about 15% of my monthly necessary spending budget (food, drugs, household.) I prefer shopping other stores and stocking up when they have sales because I do better price wise, but Walmart still gets some of our business.
As far as price matching, I'd rather go to the store having the sale rather than go through the hassle of Walmart price matching.
Actually we do not even have to take the ads in if we do not want to; we just tell our checker; sometimes they will tell us before we finish letting know the price. The one thing they do which is smart for them, but not consumers is: tell us such and such at a store is based on a 2 lb pack for instance. So it isn't exactly a match.
Ours used to keep sales circulars at the cashier's station, but now they push the savings catcher.
I shop at Walmart all the time. I shop with a list, and also use coupons. I also use Savings Catcher, and get quite a bit back. The reason for this, is because not only do I scan my receipt, other shoppers throw them on the ground. So I pick them up and scan them, too.
I've gotten a vacuum cleaner for 50% off, a free printer, two free blazers, and many other items literally for free. I just let the savings collect until I need it for some reason, then transfer it to an e-gift card to use
this is completely correct. We all need to be smart shoppers, regardless what store you prefer to use.
I tend to do one big shopping for staples, and then buy fresh/frozen stuff as needed. I don't buy my milk from Walmart generally but will in a pinch. Its a whole lot better from a local dairy. But I keep a store of things which can sit and with a little work make a meal if it starts to run out too soon. I live alone, or should I say the four legged crew get their own stuff, so maybe it doesn't work out this way for everyone. But the basics start with keeping basic supplies for the month available. When you go there, its every so easy to pick up this and that and you blow the budget on snacks.
The other thing to do is just keep going past that display with small packages of stuff which makes it look cheaper. Snack sized chips, or cookies or whatever will add up. And you're paying a dollar but only getting a couple of cookies. If you must have them, get the full sized oreo box.
I also review the budget and keep an 'available cash/money in account list. When I buy off the list I write it down. So you can see when instead of getting milk and cerial and lightbulbs when a room goes dark, you had cookies.
I don't make it absolute. Sometimes its something which will last past the month and the larger package is cheaper, so you spend more now and less later. Or you just really want a treat. Maybe the small snack of cookies is better if your going to finish the big package over a movie. Once a month I get the pizza deal from the local Italion food place. Its twenty dollars but it lasts over a couple days. It's my monthly treat.
But it starts with actually looking at what you buy and use and dividing them between nutrition and sugar cravings. And learn basic cooking. It's not hard to make a stew, for instance, but it will fill up the family without being really expensive. Buy premade for that treat like my pizza, or special occasions.
I do my shopping at Walmart since we have it and a couple of discount stores with unknown brands, and their fresh stuff is more expensive. If you want a real chain story its a thirty minute drive. Not for groceries....
Basic knowledge of what you like, what you can afford, and how not to waste it will work anywhere you shop. It might even mean shopping one place for fresh and meat, and the discount chain for staples.
Walmart employees here get a couple of dollars more than minimum wage and minimum wage is nearly $10. They get health insurance, sick leave, and paid vacations.
Walmart hires people that other businesses wouldn't touch. There is no reason to have an elderly or handicapped greeter except to give a job to a person who needs a job and can't find one elsewhere.
Walmart pays better than Target, which is the store that knee-jerk Walmart haters frequent to buy the exact same goods, manufactured in exactly the same foreign country.
Walmart does sell made-in-the-USA goods when they can get them. A lot of things aren't made in America any more. Our Walmart does buy and sell local produce, when it is available.
Our local Walmart makes large donations to local charities.
Maybe in your area, Walmart hires a slave master to walk the aisles and whip the employees, and takes his salary out of the employees' paycheck? Maybe I am not in the local Walmart to see all the abuse?
I don't shop Walmart but only becasue I have other places I shop. I don't have any automatic dislike for Walmart, based on "just because"..
They also get profit-sharing bonuses. Great post!
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