"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> Susan wrote:
>
>> I won't set foot in Walmart stores, but I'm sure you can save on
>> household supplies. I just don't think they have food there, IIRC, that
>> I'd want to buy.
>>
>> Susan
>
> Actually, the Super WalMarts have pretty good prices on some shelf-stable
> groceries. Some states don't have the Super WalMarts with the groceries.
>
> I don't buy meat there because they inject everything with salt. Their
> produce does not stay fresh very long, either. I believe it is because of
> their logistics with the distribution center being far from our area and
> everything having to keep longer in a warehouse.
>
> WalMart has good buys on fabrics, hardware and housewares. I buy their tee
> shirts for about $6 each and they last me at least 3 years before they
> shrink too much. They have a "White Stag" label in them, though I believe
> it is a special line White Stag makes for WalMart along. In any event, $6
> tee shirts that last 3 years is a pretty good bargain.
>
> Susan, you remind me of my daughter. One year we gave her a K-Mart gift
> certificate for Chanukah. She was either a Senior in High School or a
> Freshman in college and she never redeemed the certificate because one of
> her friends might have seen her going into K-Mart.
>
> A bargain is a bargain. I'll shop at outlet centers and fancy department
> stores to find one. My DH says he will have my tombstone inscribed: "she
> never paid retail" and I know someone who will give him a discount on the
> tombstone. :-)

I was not used to shopping at Walmart at one point in my life because we
simply did not have them here. I had been in them a few times in PA where
my in-laws live.

Then during a cross country move, I was starved for fresh produce. I looked
in the phone book for the nearest grocery store and it was Walmart. I went
wild in there, buying diet soda, bottled water, all sorts of fruits and
vegetables that could be washed and eaten as is or cut up with a plastic
knife. I also bought some cooked boiled eggs and cheese. This was in the
days before we knew of our food allergies. It was also in the days before
organic produce was common.

I don't know about the meat. I have heard bad things about it, but heard
the same said for meats in some of our local markets.

The only meat I've ever bought and had an issue with is from Albertson's,
both here and in CA. Their store brand packaged ground beef has an odd
flavor and smell to it while cooking. I once got a beef roast and it
smelled vile when cooking. As a child, my mom refused to buy their meat but
she didn't say why. People have told me if you get the meat from their
butcher counter instead of the prepackaged kind, it is fine.

They now sell grass fed organic beef. If I do buy any beef there at all, it
is that.