>shopping at Walmart when grocery stores like Hyvee, Wawes, Publix, Kroger, and Meijer exist
>>21944414>shopping at any of these places when small independent businesses have a much better price/quality pointIf you don’t have a local butcher who hangs, ages and breaks his own whole carcasses, you’re doing it wrong. You’ll pay 10% more but the meat will be significantly better quality.
none of those places exist irl
>>21944419in my experience you'll pay 150% more and the meat will be lower quality than even Walmart. also I have a local grocery store and they charge 300% the price of Walmart for literally the same shit
wegmans has fyfga
>>21944587>No, no. You've never, ever frequented those local stores. You're just looking to cope that you only have the financial capacity to shop at Walmart. Terrible copethat's usually true though. meat and produce prices are comparable, but at mom and pop's corner grocery, you'll end up paying $4.99 for a box of saltine crackers that's worth $1
>>21944587yes everything that doesn't support your warped view of reality is a fabrication
>>21944414The quality is the same/marginally better. You pay the premium to be away from unruly rude minorities and for the staff to speak english.
>>21944414Krogers sucks ass compared to even something like Safeway.None of the others exist near me to make a comparison. But Natural Grocers is the superior chain grocery store
>>21944414Don't forget Big Y>video is dashcam from the Big Y parking lot when I was shopping on a particularly dreary evening
>>21944462>I shop at the wrong places and it’s all their faultI can’t help it if you don’t know the difference between a quality butcher’s and a charnel house.
>>21944760>charnel houseWhat's that, ESL here?
>>21944772famous american TV show,Charnel's House
>>21944414I have a Sam club 5 minutes down the street and a Walmart 2 minutes away from that. Or I shop at the commissary on post near me, they price match anything or its lower than any major place in town plus its tax free. They always have good deals on meat.Publix has decent produce but its more expensive and further away from me, and I havent been to the Kroger in years.
>>21944760the argument was that I should shop at local butchers over a supermarket. by your reasoning I don't have a local butcher. What am I meant to do then, genius?
>>21944414Publix prices are robbery and I've never shopped at any of the others.
>>21944760ur a poopyhead
>>21944419>10% markup at a local butcherI genuinely have not been to a local butcher in my city that didn't have just insane markups. Unironically fucking redditor home cooks ruined butchers.
>>21944760NTA but typically the best butchers that you ACTUALLY get good prices at are normally some meat locker way the fuck outside of town that does processing for the county. Normally they know a few of the farmers so you can get networking for large volume orders of cuts. There's no good deals for quality cuts in small quantities but if you buy in bulk from a local rancher, whole hog, quarter to half cow, whole goat and so on then yes you get a great deal and great quality.
>>21944414>shopping anywhere when you could just manifest food in front of you at any timeishygddt
>>21944835I hate to agree with you but I agree with you. >>21944462Bullshit. Walmart is persistently more expensive than any of my locals (Giant/Food Lion, Safeway/Acme and ShopRite) for most foods, especially when seasonal shit comes into play. We just had St Paddy's, yeah? Corned beef was $1.88/lb at Food Lion and Giant, $1.99 at Safeway and Acme and $2.99 at ShopRite. It was $3.99 at Shartmart. Cabbage, too. 12¢, 19¢, 19¢ and 39¢, respectively.And they don't even have sales because of their EvErYdAy LoW pRiCeS nonsense. Unless we're buying paper goods, cleaning supplies, ammo or other non-food items, we don't bother. Fuck that place. >>21944414>t. flyover>>21944419Really depends on the butcher. I get better prices at the abattoir/slaughterhouse/wet market than most butchers. I only go to the ones that make their own sausages, like this Polish joint in my area inexplicably run by hot Polish bitches, an ancient babushka and the luckiest teenage boy on earth. Never seen a butcher shop run by women, nevermind hot women, other than this one. You show up early enough on Wednesdays and the whole place smells strongly of juniper berries and birch smoke. The smell wears off throughout the day but still prominent.
>>21944414>posting when you're from the midwestnobody wants to hear or read anything you say/think.
>>21944794>What am I meant to do then, genius?boycott walmart.how did you not pick that up in the op?
>>21944414they exist but nowhere near where I live. there's like five walmarts closer than any of those places
>>21944414Meant to say Weis not wawes. You know the grocery store randy stair shot up in order to become a danny phantom character? Sorry yall i misspelled a grocery store.
>>21944989>Publix>Kroger >Midwest
>>21945013>5 walmarts with no grocer competitor nearbyGrim. I genuinely cannot fathom shopping at Walmart anymore. They consistently have the lowest quality everything. What is interesting however is they have DECENT (Just okay) meat at Sams Club. So why Walmart cannot be bothered to provide edible meat at their regular stores is beyond me. Captive market I guess.
>>21945023>Kroger operates over 1,200 grocery stores across 16 states, primarily in the South, Midwest, and Southeast>Publix operates over 1,460 stores across the Southeastern U.S., primarily in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and KentuckyPublix no, Kroger yes.
>>21944414>posting on /ck/ when boards like /bant/, /r9k/, and /tv/ exist
>>21944414true, kroger really is better than walmart. its such shit. hell, these days food lion is better than walmart. theyve really done a lot of work at my local food lion. it looks like a kroger and has a real deli and bakery now wheras it used to be like a country IGA and have none of that.
It's annoying that every non-Wally grocery story around me will have their one loss leader that they try to get you in the store with then have like literally double the prices on everything else.
>>21944640this made me sad. i miss the northeast and actual seasons so much.
>>21945246don't worry anon, we won't be having them for much longer either
ITT: Poorfags proclaiming their source of goyslop and zogchow is better
>>21945257>Buying goyslop from a mega billionaire who hates your guys and society but it has shinier packagingFixed that for you.
>>21944414>eating corn syrup when candy corn syrup exists
>>21945261>>Buying goyslop from a mega billionaire who hates your guys and society but it has shinier packagingFixed that for (you)
>>21945268How did corn get nerfed from being the staple food of a based civilization to being slop to consoomers and slaves?
>>21944414Some people are just destined to be walmart people, like flies to shit. I can get better deals at Kroger most of the time. Haven't stepped foot in a walmart in years.
>>21945261>but it has shinier packagingIt's not about better packaging or product, you're paying a premium to not shop with poor people
>>21945250?
>>21945354as climate change keeps ramping up, the northeast won't have all four seasons much like how the southwest doesn't
>>21945359yeah i realized right after i posted that's what you meant. my parents who still live there say the last several winters have had barely any snow
why the fuck does this aldi sauerkraut taste so fucking good
>>21944414From my experience, it's more expensive shopping anywhere outside of Walmart plus every other grocery is farther away so it takes more gas making it even more expensive. I'm talking like driving 30 miles to buy $8 oreos vs 5 miles for $5 oreos. I only go out of my way for asian markets when I get a good paycheck and want snacks.
>>21945618>30 miles to buy $8 oreos vs 5 miles for $5 oreosJesus fuck. They're literally $2.99 for a 17oz package. I just bought one Saturday. What sort of overpriced bullshit stores for retards are you shopping at, you fucking retard?
>>21945690$4.79 on sale in middle of nowhere land at Kroger Not $8 ridiculous but idk where you're getting them for $2.99
Where my HEB niggas @?
>>21944640Cozy
>>21945023Bro Kroger is from the Midwest. It's basically the only grocery store around unless you want to shop at some janky shit like Aldi
>>21944838and then ruin it because you have to freeze it or it'll go bad and you wasted $1000 for nothing
>>21945711yo. but i shop at Central Market when i can. place is fucking god tier, literally the best grocery store i've ever been in
>>21945711Ayyyy H E FUCKIN B BAYBEE
>>21944414>shopping at Walmart have 1>when grocery stores like Hyvee, Wawes, Publix, Kroger, and Meijer existdon't have 1hope this helps, OP
>>21944414You have to realize that much of this board is obese rural flyovers so the only business with enough economies of scale that will service their decaying shithole town of 5000 is Wal-Mart.
>>21945784Man you are obsessed.
publix is one of the only options near methey want like $4.60/lb for chicken wings
>>21944414>even bothering to grow food on farms when you can buy food at walmart
>>21945810publix is really expensive outside of buy one get one deals
>>21944414I hate walmart for so many reasons but its the only place I can find reasonably priced whole chickens so tonight for the time I used the curbside service. Ordered a bunch of chickens online. Pulled up, trunk full of chickens, no fucking around in their awful store. Not bad desu.
>>21945792Truth hurts to hear, doesn't it?
>>21945829for me the employees always managed to find something with a fucked up package nobody would buy if they were shopping themselves.
>>21944419>If you don’t have a local butcher who hangs, ages and breaks his own whole carcasses, you’re doing it wrong. You’ll pay 10% more but the meat will be significantly better quality.This has never been true, you are paying almost double if you are lucky.
>>21944419>10% more
>>21945707ShopRite. Might even still have the receipt, either in gym bag, my wife's purse or the cupholder in the car. Woulda been under the sink in the bag of bags if my state hadn't banned plastic bags entirely.Also, McCain fries were $1.99/bag. We hadda get a raincheck cuz they were out of the hashbrown patties.
Price chopper is also pretty good
>>21946069Don't we say Market 32 now?
>>21944772If only you were connected to some kind of computerised global information distribution network that had easily accessible areas where you could type in simple queries and have them answered in milliseconds. Oh well.
>>21944794Move to somewhere that middle class white people live? I don’t know what else to tell you except get a job, loser.
>>21945013So eat shit then.
>>21945949>vacuum packed t bone steak at my local try n save $44.99 kg>same steak dry aged from the whole carcass butcher 30 feet away $49.99 kg
>>21944414If you lived in Cub territory you would appreciate walmarts prices. I main Aldi, and supplement with walmart, kowalskis, and the Asian market. Cub is a last resort but they do have the biggest selection. Kowalskis is the nicest and most expensive but it probably isn't that much more expensive than Cub.Walmarts seem to be good at stocking what moves, there are two near me. I need to shop at the ghetto one because the Asian and Hispanic sections are significantly better than the nicer walmart. I can get about 50% of what I would buy at the Asian store at that walmart at much better prices.
Some people in 'murica live in areas where Wal-Mart is the only game in town. But those are places with little to no real estate development and are likely not worth visiting.
>>21945933I was worried about that but the chickens come vac sealed and wrapped in secondary plastic bag 2 packs, in frozen cases so their pretty uniform. Also i order more than they typically have sitting out so they are getting then from the back. I did toss in a few extra items agsint my better judgement, fresh stuff, but it was all fine actually. Will continue to chickenmax and toss in any extra odds and ends I might need.
>>21944804based and poopypilled
>>21944414>going to a grocery store instead of becoming a moloch worshipping Jewish globalist financial eliteist that simply asks his most dutiful peons to go fetch a batch of goy baby foreskins fresh from the nearest hospital
>>21944414idk where you live but Walmart has beat Kroger on prices and meat/deli quality for me going on 6 years
>>21944414Why would I shop at Kroger or Meijer when Walmart has the exact same product at a lower price?
>>21947729Walmart doesn't clean their store. You'll get hepatitis or something just from touching a product on the shelf.
>>21947729>>21947663>Walmart is cheaper! But it isn't, though. As was pointed out earlier ITT, their "everyday low prices" are always higher than supermarket sale prices, they don't have sales of their own and their everyday prices are only incrementally better than other stores everyday prices. Whoopdie shit, their flat canned mackerel is $3.54 rather than $3.59. What a bargain. /sarcasm
>>21944414I love my local Hy-Vee. Where there's a helpful smiiiile in every aiiisle.
>>21948063>"everyday low prices" are always higher tI'm so sick of hearing otherwise. You know! Half my basket is repurchased staples from canned tomatoes to veggies and fruit, and I always do better at Publix BOGOs, Aldi or Costco sized veggies and fruits. There is nothing at WalMart other than frozen spinach and blueberries that can beat anyone else.
>>21948066>frozen spinach$1.50/lb a few weeks ago at ShopRite for Green Giant. The sale was four 8oz boxes for $3, limit 4 per variety.
>>21944414>shopping at any big soulless store when local delis and markets will take care of you
>>21948079>>21948066Meanwhile, in it's $1.37/12oz store brand and $1.56/10oz Birdseye IE $1.83/lb and $2.50/lb, respectively at Shartmart. Fuck that store.
hyvee organizes their store in a dumb way. half the products in the “health market” could just be moved to a regular aisle.
>>21948088My sister cooks weekly for her medically challenged labrador. She got so she gets home delivery of WalMart for the staples of lean burgers, cans of pumpkin, bags of apples, watermelon, and other fruit, and big bags of frozen green beans and vege. I swear nothing she buys is more economical than Costco. But WalMart schedules deliveries down to like 2hr windows. My biggest issue is quality, however. It's inconsistent. If I were to walk in to a store, they'll have some produce missing or past expiration, such as cilantro, and it'll ruin your whole dinner plan.
>>21948095I recently got pickup from Walmart for the simple reason that we don't fuck with red potatoes, it was St Paddy's, my wife and I like yellow potatoes and they're the rare product that actually is cheaper there v other stores so she ordered some things we know other stores in our area don't have* and a 5lb sack of yellow potatoes and asked me to pick it up before I went to get her from work. Guess what was the only item missing from the order? I had to go into the store and grab the bag of potatoes myself because, yes, they're in stock but no, the fulfillment workers aren't intelligent enough to have grabbed them. Thankfully, everyone in the queue were kind enough to let me go ahead of them since I was only buying the one item. And that's another thing! 20 fucking registers and only four opened at any time! With 300 customers waiting to pay! Fuck that store.Another store in my area has scan-as-you-go carts so you don't even have to go to the registers anymore. Much faster. Double fuck Walmart.>*That's another edge case use for Walmart. For some reason, other stores here don't carry Nestle peanut butter drumsticks, my wife is Marathi which means she's addicted to everything peanut so that's the ice cream and wants so she ordered the potatoes, some clearance yarn and a bajillion boxes of peanut butter ice cream cones
>>21946069they had some surprisingly good hot sauce when i visitedbetter than the wegman's somehow
>>21948128>20 fucking registers and only four opened at any time!Same at mine, and the 8 self checkouts that have only one staff member.
>>21948128>20 fucking registers and only four opened at any time! With 300 customers waiting to pay! Fuck that store.That's SOP in retail since the end of the pandemic: making do with less personnel while making you pay more. I know for a fact that Kroger is just as bad since they've been copying Walmart since the days of Rodney McMullen.
>>21948197>the 8 self checkoutsWith four turned off. >>21948213Jesus.My local independent has just six registers, not including the tobacconist's counter, but usually only one is manned. They have a "code", IC3 meaning that if the bitch at the till sees three customers in her line, she gets on the PA and says "I see three" and someone else from somewhere else in the store rushes over and takes one of the two other people waiting in line to a second register. Around holidays, all six are in use but because that place is no nonsense (and most of the women working there have been at that store for thirty+ years since it's a friends-and-family owned and operated place and they surprisingly have every single produce code memorized), they get you out ASAP.Walmart has more employees, usually doing what looks like fuck-all, and yet everything goes much, much slower. Or they don't grab >>21948128's potatoes.
I love Price Chooper since they have the Claxton fruitcakes around holiday time.
>>21948296Good eye, Chopper Shopper!
>>21948292>They have a "code", IC3 meaning that if the bitch at the till sees three customers in her line, she gets on the PANo, no. Every single grocery store does that and there are other employees around. The thing is they're not going to "open up" for a few reasons. Management needs to keep up with the sales so they need to keep those people stocking and replenishing, they're not trained to be cashiers (a choice), and not all of the POS terminals on the checkstands actually work. For the latter it's common for them to recycle parts from one to fix another because these companies only allocate so much for a store's budget. If anything, "undermanned" stores are always going over budget due to hours. The companies want you to wait longer.
>>21948309>not trained to be cashierNot a difficult job.
>>21945731Well that just makes you the retard if you're buying meat in bulk with no way to store it. Thats why coffin freezers are an S Tier appliance purchase.
>>21948319The job itself isn't difficult, but the customers are.
>>21946069They have the best fresh food, to be honest. Only midwest bros can get it though.
>>21946069Name sounds like a 3rd world army helicopter.
I do my grocery shopping at target is that weird
>>21948481They only ever have decent deals on non-perishable dry grocery items. For fresh product they're overpriced and their variety is limited.
>>21944414>doxxing what state your in by revealing your local grocer options
>>21948481I question your sanity. Finding good ingredients at Target is difficult to the degree if you give me the option of Target vs Walmart for food shopping I will choose walmart.
HEB mogs all other regional stores
>>21948797im glad youre finally gettin it, buddy
>>21949378>mogsFag.
Ah, Hy-Vee. Where you can get taco pasta salad for cheap. Mmm mmm.
>>21949767pure midwest
>>21949767>penne pasta >taco seasoning>kidney beans>tomato sauce>onion?and is that a meatball i see in the left corner?all around quali-fucking-tea right there i tell you what
>>21949752nigger
>>21944414I'll be honest, I'd happily shop at Walmart if it wasn't always a zoo there. Shit gives me anxiety. The parking lot alone is a turn off.
>>21944414>Shopping at Walmart, at allOP is based and correct for once
>>21945257Pales in comparison to Central Market.>>21945711Here>>21944414>No HEB or Costco
>>21948481I think they do general merchandise well. It seems like only a tiny footprint of the store is dedicated to grocery.
>>21949767And the best cold, rubbery, refrigerated breakfast food.
>>21950152I'm the guy shitting on Walmart earlier ITT.If I go and it's not a pickup order, I go first thing in the morning. They open at 6am and even then, it's not empty but it's manageable.
Moving soon, what are PAnons opinions on Giant? Are there other better local stores?
