I've been noticing lately that my trips to shop at Walmart have been anything but enjoyable.The grocery dept. is less and less name brands and more "great value". That's their brand, not necessarily, better, just cheaper. I for one won't buy it because I can't trust that the foods don't come from China. It might just be me but I'm the buyer.
Sam Walton went into business to put everyone else out and by the looks of closed shops all over it's worked. Most of my groceries come from the local market and now I'm waiting for the farmers to open too.
Just thought I'd vent.

I hardly shop there anymore either, ours is always so darn crowded, and very few cashiers, so it takes forever to get through there.

My sister in law is a former mgr for WM. She said Sam Walton would roll over in his grave if he knew what his kids have done to his store. I agree. It has reached the point that I hate to shop there for anything, and won't if there is any other choice available.

I totaly agree with you. Great Value??? Your right Where did it come from??? There are only a couple of things I buy there anymore. Sometimes its 3wks before I go to that store. Greedy Relatives!!! Sam is rolling over and over and over. I've also heard that they want to go to all PT like Kroger's. Then they don't have to pay insurance, retirement and overtime. Listen to me?? I vented too lol lol lol

Walmart is the devil. I never give them my money if I can avoid it. In the last small town I lived in, they came and drove every grocery out of business, then K Mart, and then jacked the prices.

We wont buy their brand either. My husband feels the way you do. He wants to know where the food is coming from. For some reason I don't trust WalMart.

I have no choice but shop WM, the other grocery store in town charges twice the price and I can't afford that. It seems that the last few times I have gone into WM I came out with a bad headache.

I will buy tyson chicken not great value.

Go buy your own chicks and raise them and slaughter them your selves. Not all that much fun, I agree, but that is what I do! We eat venison and have a big garden. I was just out there hoeing 25 tomato plants and covering the growing potatoes. Next year we are going to get 12 beef calves to raise, then off to the slaugher house they go.

If you are not willing to do these things, do not complain about where your food comes from, because unless you handle it yourself, you never really know.

I would love to do that but I don't think my apartment manager would be very happy with me.LOL

Can't remember when I was there last. I pay higher prices and go to my local grocery store and farmers market.
No reason to go to WM when there is no fabric to look at and buy.

Not everybody lives in a place where raising their own food is an option. You still have the right to know where what you buy and eat is from.

I agree, but if you are not willing to pay the price that the local farmers HAVE to charge, go to Walmart, but do NOT complain. I charge $20 for a bushel of tomatos, home grown, and beautiful. But does the buyer consider MY costs? I make $1.50 a bushel.

We also live in town. We grow a garden and eat venison.
We do a swap with gardens items ,when we harvest, with our neighbor's. I don't can, I freeze everything. Basil is a good freezer item. I also make my own marinara sauce . I do go to MKT to buy my corn and a few other things we don't grow.

OK I don't complain about the prices farmers pay but I have definitley noticed that the shelves are turning "white" at Walmart. It is all great value brands. Seriously, look the next time. I don't always buy name brands but I have noticed lately all hte Great Value items. I like walmart for the books, magazines, etc. I guess I am old fashioned and hate changes. YOu get used to a store a certain way and when it changes, you feel it. Just like when they change a character on a soap opera or show, the whole charactre changes.

I love the Farmers Markets this time of year. And I do not like WalMart anymore. It is a free Country here & I do not like any Store forcing me to buy one brand of anything...their brand. Soooo I do very little shopping there. I prefer to pay a bit extra and shop at the Homeland Store where I can have a selection. And they seem to appreciate the business. That makes me feel good. I do carry my own stuff out but at least they do offer. Okay, I will get off of my rant against WM now.

We don't shop at Walmart now since they remodeled the store, they raised prices, took out the fabric department and have to stand in line at checkout. We shop elsewhere now and save $ and less time in checkout.

I'm originally from the Chicago Northwest Subs. (born and raised) I had to move to central Ill. and was appalled that I have to do my grocery shopping in a Wal-Mart. (only place in town) What's the world coming too. No choices.

OR you can work closely with the farmer. I work with a group that does all the raising I help with the processing. I work with a local butcher that raises his own beef and pork or will hook me up with a farmer. I have my own egg hens. Last year my garden failed due to tomato blight :cry: Still haven't decided if I am putting one in this year, my back is screaming no right now.

My farmer friends have a good saying... You can pay the farmer a little more now or you pay the doctor a lot more later.

I'm in town and trying to figure out where I can put a small garden, at least so I can have fresh in season, but livestock?? the city won't let me!! I do go to a store which sells local produce and has a butcher shop. I go to Wally World for a few things..cat litter, junk food and cleaning supplies. I'd get some frozen items, but by the time you stand in line 20-25 minutes, why bother?? I never have understood why they have 25 checkouts and NEVER more than 5 open..what a waste. I don't think its a matter of being willing to go elsewhere, its a matter of necessity. I did notice that they have cut their selection way back and its mostly store brand now. I do not trust them, not one bit. I work for a very large company who does supply some items to them. They are very very pushy about how much an item can sell for and insist suppliers cut costs. Its always a disaster waiting to happen, no one store should have that much control over the market. When they first started up didn't they tout how all their stuff was from USA? Greed is a terrible thing. :cry:

I won't shop at a WalMart. I am firmly against their purchasing and merchandising practices. They have no remorse if they move into a small town, drive all the local shops out of business, then close up due to lack of customers. Entire towns have disappeared because of them. On the purchasing side they will bleed a supplier until they are losing money with every sale and then cut them off. Too many people are financially devastated by their business practices. (Rant done)

Maybe the gov't needs to come in like they did AT&T and break them up???????????????? You have heard when they went in; it would be the downfall of the small stores. TRUE TRUE TRUE. What really grips me the most is now they have run the SBO out they have also quit selling products!! We have to drive a long distance to go to a normal store.

This is their MO. I worked for them for years. They really did me wrong and now I refuse to shop there and try on a daily basis to convince people not to waste their money there. YES! Sam Walton is doing cartwheels in his grave for what his children have done. My father knew him, I've met him and his wife was a very lovely woman. I can't believe what they've done with his dream. I could go on forever about all the wrongs they've done me, but what's the point? Just don't shop there and don't give them your money!!!

I am sooo in agreement with you all. I hate walmart. I swore when they removed their fabric I wouldn't shop there anymore. Unfortuneatly, I've had to eat my words alittle but I only go there if *absolutely* neccessary.

I am not a Walmart shopper. I do not like Walmart's "fake" low prices. I am a coupon addict and have managed to save quite a bundle at our local more expensive grocery store. It takes persistence and time but it is well worth the effort. This week I saved $60 with my coupons!! Honest. The cashier was totally shocked. Before my DH retired I wouldn't waste my time clipping coupons.... I don't like off brands, I said. I'm not running all over creation to save a couple of dollars. Well, I don't have to run all over creation and I'm saving far more than a couple of dollars. And coupons are for brand name products. I keep track of my monthly grocery bill on excel and the coupon savings too. (See, I told you I was addicted to this!) So far this year I have saved over $600 with coupons alone, but I do buy off brands also and save even more.

Here is a link that changed my shopping life!
http://www.leadingtheweigh.com/2010/...n-madness.html

I won't shop at Walmart, they have destroyed the small businesses. I was a floral designer for 25 years, worked in small mom and pop owned shops and then opened my own shop. They would buy in huge quanitites of flowers at holiday time..and I just couldn't compete with their cheap roses. They didn't last..were low quality..I carried premiun roses. I don't trust their brand either..had to come from over seas. I am blessed to live in an area with some really wonderful grocery stores...so..I buy only from the other markets. Walmart is the downfall of America..greed, greed, greed. I am now done my ranting about Walmart...Buy American!

Sounds like a great idea. Will it all fit in my 1/5th acre lot in a housing track ? Most of us just don't have the land to grow our own. Home grown sure does taste better tho and doesn't have all those pesticides.

Just checked the HOA regs. and darn not allowed chicken or calves in the townhouse complex. Some of us have to live and work in urban areas.

I am sure you want to mean well but, be careful, it is gonna hurt when you fall off your high horse. :(

I don't shop there (not sure if there are any around here anyway) but I love how riled up people get over the store. My friend and I like to share some of the more colorful anti stories. For that, Wal-Mart, I am thankful.

Of course, we also like to fun on the worshipful Target shoppers. Good times.

I go there once a month to buy two bags of bird seed. ( it's the only kind my parrots will eat. ) If I could buy it elsewhere I wouldn't set foot in there. I hate shopping there.

I have also noticed that the brand selection has changed dramatically at wal mart. I never have liked their meat or produce departments and refuse to buy any of it. But I try to buy less and less from them. I very seldom go there anymore for many of the same reasons the rest of you don't. The wal mart of today is not what Sam Walton intended.

I go to Walmart for sundries, but not groceries. At our store, the produce and the meat never quite look as fresh as they should. We have a small locally owned store that has the best meat and fish and I shop there as much as I can. Also, a lot of their stuff is cheaper.

i don't buy much at Wal Mart anymore. Since they remodeled our store the beer, wine and pop are all over the front and you have to walk forever to buy food. No, I don't like their store brand but was shocked awhile back when checking the label on a name brand can of beans and they were from China. Also, our Wal Mart has mostly selservice counters now - no way!

Are Walmart here is ALWAYS packed, then 2 checkouts open??? Three tops.
Plus, the few times I stopped for dog or cat food sales, they were out. Out of the basic Purina brands, but had LOTS of their generic brand from China, and no way do I want mypets eating that after all the recalls.....

25 calves wow I thought we took on alot when we got 5, we did loose one. Poor thing. We are doing ours with some friends since they are in the country and were in the city. We bought the animals and they take care of them. We also have 17 chickens which I believe 5 are roosters (there dinner) the rest are layers and were looking into meaters, and a couple of piggies too. Wow what a life.

Just a word of caution on the dog foods. At the time I was feeding my dogs Eukinuba which is one of the supposedly better dog foods and it was one of the brands involved.

sometimes the "gerneric"items are made by a name brand company,like Nabisco or Hunts etc.they just dont meet their standards they have set for thier products,so instead of tossing them they package them for another company that have a contract with and put thier label on it,but it is also a higher profit item for the store like WM,they make more money from it than selling a Name Brand item,its all about the bottom line always will be

Cajun Quilter, yes, I know! I couldnt believe that either, their were SO many brands on the recall! I just buy Purina, as far as I know, they werent on any of the list, but you never know, again, I think its where the ingredients came from. I wish I were more confident, I would make their food. I do give the dogs SOME people food, the bulldog LOVES asparagus, LOL!

I thought Pedigree was the only one not on the list,can't remember though

Nope it was not, that is why I was so upset when I heard about Eukinuba. Fortunately it was not the canned food mine were getting but I quit using it anyway. My dog now has to be on prescription Science Diet. Not because of that tho.

You could be right on the pedigree, I just know the Purina Dry wasnt on it. Never give mine the wet anyhow, too expensive, although the cats used to love it!