[packrat35]

Which is why I hardly go to Wal-Mart. My time is worth something. If I stand in line 45 minutes to save $5.00, its not worth it to me!

[laplata]

Which is why I hardly go to Wal-Mart. My time is worth something. If I stand in line 45 minutes to save $5.00, its not worth it to me!

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I don’t blame you and feel the same way. But that is a broad statement and you must live in a big city. I live in a town of about 20,000 and have never had to wait more than 10 minutes and that was during busy times.

[fwdude]

I’ve found that any savings that I used to realize at Wal-mart have evaporated. Maybe a cent or two here or there, but their prices pretty much track everyone else now.

And what most people don’t know is that products produced to be sold at WM are inferior quality compared to the SAME products sold elsewhere.

[Vigilanteman]

Amen. Plus you have to figure out the value of your time to walk a quarter mile or more from the parking lot, plus the time to get to the back of the store to pick out what you need. Unless you are buying a lot or just can't get it anywhere else, the marginal savings just isn't worth it.

If I know it is near the auto service part of the store, I will sometime use that entrance and the checkstand there going in and out.