Posted on 03/06/2024 3:59:49 PM PST by Vendome
Unemployment may be low, jobs plentiful, and consumer spending holding up. However, consumers are still struggling with the rising cost of credit card debt, housing, and automobiles—expenses that defy easy solutions. However, managing the cost of groceries and other essentials, the leading expense for half the respondents in a recent TD Bank survey, is just a click or short drive away.
As consumers pull back on discretionary spending, major retailers in the grocery business are doubling down on the power of private-label brands to build traffic and loyalty. The boom is on.
Amazon, which owns Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh, hopes to transform itself from a high-end, specialty grocer (nicknamed “Whole Paycheck”) into a home delivery vendor of essentials and store-branded goods under private labels with names like Aplenty and Happy Belly. Amazon aims to leverage its last-mile advantage, built over years of development, to do an end run around Walmart
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Grocery stores are nothing but, a pain in my Azz to get simple things like shampoo and razors.
Now, every store from Walmart to Target that had self checkout is reverting back to clerk checkout.
I swear I'm faster than them.
Malls suck because the demographics have changed so radically in the last 5 years, that clothing styles and sizes no longer pertain to me....at all.
That and both places are becoming increasingly dangerous to with lunatics(well, they are sane but...anyway) walking right out the door or running and mowing people right into the concrete as they escape with their ill gotten gains.
I'm done.
I just order my Neutragena Shampoo online because if it's not available at Target or Walmart, it's locked up and it's a waste of my time to wait around for an item or be told it will be at a register when I go to check out and because it's not in my shopping cart, I forget until I get home and GRRRRRR!
When I got to the store, it’s just to get the basic; bread, milk, OJ, stuff like that. Everything I get online and have it delivered. Medical items, clothing (socks, underwear, t-shirts, sweat pants, etc) I get online. A lot of the reason is cuz I’m too weak from Long Covid to get out like I once did, but another reason is for what you stated, I just can’t stand going anymore. And those Walmart drivers, egads!
“Amazon, which owns Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh, hopes to transform itself from a high-end, specialty grocer (nicknamed “Whole Paycheck”) into a home delivery vendor of essentials and store-branded goods under private labels with names like Aplenty and Happy Belly. Amazon aims to leverage its last-mile advantage, built over years of development, to do an end run around Walmart”
so far, i don’t see much progress towards the above in the local whole paycheck ... produce still costs almost double compared to all the other local grocery stores, and much of that is WAY past its prime from sitting around too long from not being bought ...
everything else i’ve priced at whole paycheck is still WAY more expensive than elsewhere, and store employees generally STILL have an attitude that whole paycheck is “special” and that therefore THEY are “special” too because they work in such a “special” place ... [the customers ALSO have that “i am special because i shop at whole paycheck” attitude as well]
consequently, i avoid the local whole paycheck like the plague ...
“Unemployment may be low, jobs plentiful, and consumer spending holding up.” says the chinese-owned propaganda organ ...
Walmart is going to be lowering fresh food and other products to pre-inflation levels.
https://www.foodandwine.com/walmart-restoring-pre-inflation-prices-8603913
https://www.the-express.com/lifestyle/shopping/130275/walmart-lowering-grocery-prices-inflation
I’ve been ordering my groceries online from Walmart Market for over a year now. I love it! Check out Walmart+ Home. The only time I go to my local grocery store is for the meat/chicken and some veggies. I haven’t stepped inside a Walmart Market for 1-1/2 years and it’s wonderful.
I shop at Walmart a lot. I like their store brands just fine over the brand names, with only a few exceptions. Store brands save me a lot and I try not to waste money.
A big reason I love Walmart is they will do most of my shopping for me and bring it out to my car. There’s no charge as long as the order is at least $35. I still like to go in and get my own produce, for obvious reasons, but that’s a short trip when it’s just produce.
I usually get the same Walmart driver and he’s great. I’m lucky. The drivers who deliver for Walmart+ Home work for Walmart. The others who deliver in their own cars don’t.
Do you shop at the Walmart Market or the big box Walmart?
Maybe you should consider moving?
Delivery's the future - for reasons you stated and many more. The nicest thing? You can get the best of each store - no reason to chose one over the other as much which stores are stronger and better and cheaper in different areas - produce, canned goods, meats etc...
Same! It’s fantastic.
Our target neighborhood store just upgraded and added a bunch more self serv. . So less lines. Publix across the street.
Going to the grocery or any store for that matter is easy here. Then there’s also Amazon delivery. Depends on where you live I suppose but we have it made in this soft spoiled society.
The real problems await our descendents dealing with this ridiculous debt.
When ACB was in hearings for SCOTUS, the paparazzi stalked her. One day she was unloading a carful of While Foods bags. I knew she would be an uppity problem.
Pretty much agree, groceries have always been a low margin business and (sorry food snobs) there’s no difference, so I go to the volume leader which naturally is going to be able to offer the lowest prices. I do my own shopping but I’m quick about it and thanks to you folks who order online, I only have to dodge the Walmart employees doing the shopping for a bunch of folks rather than all those folks pushing their own carts. So it benefits both ways.
I’ll say this: If I was so fat or disabled that I couldn’t do my own shopping except from a motorized cart, I’d damn sure learn how to shop online and have it delivered at least to my car.
Do you pick up at Walmart, or does someone deliver?
Is there a cost for this service?
Phew, I thought that my mind was gone.
I’ve been in one a handful of times and the prices are extraordinarily high.
I mostly get food from BJ’s (like Costco) because I drive past it.
I also really like Trader Joe’s.
I have a no frills Produce Junction near me were I can get fresh fruit and veggies. They sell in bulk to institutions but also retail.
“visited Aldi once...I wasn’t even slightly impressed.”
Ditto. Kind of creepy. Maybe it’s just a matter of getting used to the layout or something.
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