This happens to me every week, I fill up a grocery cart or two, and expect to write a check for two or three hundred dollars, and what do you know, it is under 150 - and I mean I buy everything, food, paper stuff, school supplies, underwear, a toy or two, and perhaps a few household things, and still, I am ALWAYS surprised by the price I have to pay. Always really low.
I am a confirmed super wal mart customer. The wal mart I do know I love, and the supposed wal mart I dont know in the article.....well, let the free market decide where those companies will go and who will work for them. Americans are resourceful. Every day a couple thousand new businesses could pop up and the law of supply and demand kick in.
The underlying theme of this joker's piece is that big bad wal mart MUST be regulated and price controlled and MANAGED by some all knowing sage who will make things FAIR - just a bunch of socialistic poppycock.
As a weekly shopper, I will always drive the distance and make the effort to go to wal mart and sams club because I as the consumer WIN!
Jenny
Jenny, you are making me think that it would be worth it to drive to my closest Walmart (I think there is one in Secaucus, which is not very far, still in Hudson Co., NJ) at least once a month to stock up on essentials.
I'll be discussing this with Hubby. We do belong to BJs, but those giant sizes just don't work for us. We did buy a matress for the kid at BJs on our recent shopping extravaganza in VA, which is when we went to Walmart.
The kid is lucky, the Walmart is right near her house, excellent shopping right by her, the BJs is right there too, also Food Lion, I made her join the discount club. That was a pretty good supermarket, it reminded me of the Stop & Shop here.
Happy shopping!