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AT GREAT RISK OF REPEATING WHAT HAS BEEN POSTED 30 OR 40 TIMES ALREADY:

I shop at Wally World for most, but not all, of my groceries. Some of their items are less expensive for the same (brand name) item, but some are not. Buyers need to know the prices at the local markets and spend accordingly.

Some of the "Great Value" products are excellent, some are inferior. If the price differential is great enough I'll try it. If not I stick w/ what I know works. If I can't get exactly what I want there I pick it up with my second stop at a local supermarket chain store.

A few examples:

All of the Perdue chicken at my Walmart (except the fillets) is injected with "chicken broth" (salt water). I would rather not pay ~$2.50 per pound for water, and boost my sodium intake at the same time. I get all of my chicken at a local chain.

The same goes for beef - I have yet to try a piece of beef from Walmart that tasted good. I just don't bother anymore.

The GV oatmeal is as good as the local store brand, and around $1 less expensive. Neither are as good as Quaker, but I don't care if the flattened oat grain is pristine and oval or not. The taste is the same.

The "Malt-o-meal" bags of frosted shreadded wheat are superior, IMO, to the brand name cereal and drastically less expensive.

Nearly all of the brand name cereals at Walmart are $.50 or greater less costly than our local market.

Walmart tracks ALL of this stuff. If you don't get what you want complain to the store, or online. They will either listen and give you what you want or they will not. Then you will either spend your money there or somewhere else. If many people agree with you and start spending too much of their money somewhere else Walmarts grocery sales will drop and they will loose money, etc. etc.

It isn't a particularly complicated formula, folks, and it has worked for a very long time. If Walmart was not good at it they would not be the juggernaut they are. Just shop accordingly.

For the record, I scrupulously avoid the Pepperidge Farm breads baked and painted w/ lead in China.