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The Walmart in Vienna, VA is really no worse than the Targets I've been to around here. The fact some people think there's this massive gap just shows you the power of branding. And FWIW their grocery section easily beats the Safeways around here (which are awful in almost every way).
I don't find their prices to be that great. Over time it seems they've gotten higher as people have gotten dumber - large "efficiency" sizes that aren't actually cheaper, etc. Like people "know" Walmart is cheaper so they don't bother comparison shopping any more.
Poor people can’t exactly drive spending numbers at a place with household items. They either don’t have the spending creep or can’t afford to spend on it anyways.
I also think people’s perception of Walmart is skewed by thinking of Walmart’s being trashy in small towns or something. In bigger cities, the Walmart’s that I’ve been to are actually nice and keep up with other options. It says more about the kind of people that live in the same area as the people who they are complaining about versus what it says about the company or the store.
There is one in Greenville, SC in a nice suburban area that is very, very nice and even has faux wood floors and nicer items in it. Agreed.
The ones in urban areas in the Northeast are tough.
I prefer Target, which seems to be taking over everywhere (fortunately). I was surprised to see one in Center City Philadelphia recently.
I don't find their prices to be that great. Over time it seems they've gotten higher as people have gotten dumber - large "efficiency" sizes that aren't actually cheaper, etc. Like people "know" Walmart is cheaper so they don't bother comparison shopping any more.
Not so here. And I DO comparison shop - I check sizes and I know what I am buying. Once in a while I'll see something that is not a good price. And the quantity scam where people buy a 2, 3 or pack and don't realize that they are spending MORE, well that happens at EVERY grocery store not just Walmart. I don't understand how people fall for that but they do.
The Walmart in Vienna, VA is really no worse than the Targets I've been to around here. The fact some people think there's this massive gap just shows you the power of branding. And FWIW their grocery section easily beats the Safeways around here (which are awful in almost every way).
Well, you know Targets are considered upscale because you can pronounce the name like it's French-Tarjay.
In 2020, in a large part of the country, retail stores were shut down while food stores remained open. Since both Walmart and Target carried groceries, they did very, very well. Customers who did not need groceries could and did purchase other items at these stores. Numbers alone are terribly misleading.
So you dismiss the data because of your personal anecdotes?
Has anyone posted a version of this article with meaningful data? Like the sample size, survey methodology, and criteria for identifying "Walmart shoppers" and their typical attributes?
This is all I found in the article:
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Roughly 95% of the shoppers in Numerator's panel visited Walmart two or more times in the past year.
Does visiting Walmart "two or more times in the past year" qualify a survey participant as a "Walmart shopper?" If so, then the demographics simply reflect the sample since pretty much everyone goes to Walmart.
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Walmart's typical shopper in the US is a white woman between 55 and 64 years old, who is married and living in the suburbs of the Southeast. She typically has an undergraduate degree and earns about $80,000 per year.
The 2017 population estimate for white women aged 55-64 with a bachelor's degree is 3,422,000 or less than 2% of the adult population. Again, I have no idea what is meant by "typical" in this article, but I suspect the data have little to do with the conclusions being drawn by some in this thread...
Has anyone posted a version of this article with meaningful data? Like the sample size, survey methodology, and criteria for identifying "Walmart shoppers" and their typical attributes?
This is all I found in the article:
Does visiting Walmart "two or more times in the past year" qualify a survey participant as a "Walmart shopper?" If so, then the demographics simply reflect the sample since pretty much everyone goes to Walmart.
The 2017 population estimate for white women aged 55-64 with a bachelor's degree is 3,422,000 or less than 2% of the adult population. Again, I have no idea what is meant by "typical" in this article, but I suspect the data have little to do with the conclusions being drawn by some in this thread...
yep, that article kind of reads like random statistics tossed into one article without the rest of the story.
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