Have you noticed that Walmart isn't so cheap anymore.

Now, I am REALLY happy with Walmart !
When I ordered today, they had fruitcake on the website and i ordered one, hoping that it would not be out of stock. Happily, it arrived along with the rest of the order, so Bobby and I enjoyed a slice of fruitcake and a hot cup of coffee.

Just now, my Apple Watch alerted me that Walmart was going to be delivering my fruitcake, and sure enough, they arrived with a nice little package and two Claxton Fruitcakes in the package.
This was awesome, except that at no time did I order these fruitcakes !

I looked back through my orders to see if I had ordered before and they had to ship it, but nope….. no fruitcake orders except the one I ordered and received this morning.
So we are two happy campers with two mystery fruitcakes to enjoy for the holidays .
 
Walmart doesn't seem much cheaper than anywhere else now. I do try to comparison shop. I have noticed some of the Walmart products now cost more than the name brands.
 

Nathan said:
I also have refillable K cups I can use my favorite loose grind with.
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Do those work well? I really need to get off this instant coffee ride I'm on. I have a ceramic pour over drip, but when I've tried it, I wasn't happy with the results. The coffee may have been too course.

What grind do you use with the refill K cups? Thanks.
 
I'm not a huge Walmart shopper. Some people love the place. But they are the cheapest with things like Voltaren Gel, Tylenol, other over the counter meds like Tums etc. Toothpaste. Though those prices have gone up. Cat food.
 
Robb.hisself said:
I remember WT Grants. Was a better form of Newberry's and Woolworth. Growing up in the 1950's those were the stores less well off working people shopped at. A step up was JC Penneys and Sears; both shadows of their former selves, today. Seems to me Walmart did not put them under; rather poor management and peoples' changing shopping habits. So, I am not so sure Walmart is the culprit everyone makes them out to be. What about Target? More expensive than Walmart but competitive to it. Explain that. The world is forever changing. Walmart will see its day of eclipse one day too.
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I can't remember if it was Kmart or Sears, one of them dismissed online shopping as not important, which lead to their doom.

Speaking of shopping habits, I was thinking back and up popped a memory of standing in Montgomery Ward stores picking up things we ordered. There's a lot to rag on the internet for, but ending catalog shopping is definitely one of the boons.
 
NewlySenior said:
There's a lot to rag on the internet for, but ending catalog shopping is definitely one of the boons.
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I miss the catalogs. When the Christmas catalogs for Sears and JC Penneys were delivered they were hot items in the household. By the time the kids got their chance to look them over the adults had circled or written all over the pretty pictures. They were the source of delightful time spent by kids shopping for their Christmas presents from mom and dad Santa. The two most saddest moments of the Christmas season was when the tree was thrown out AND when the Christmas catalogs were tossed into the trash bins. Then you knew Christmas was over.
 
Robb.hisself said:
Christmas isn't Christmas without fruitcake. Especially the rather stale and hard variety you find at the super market on the marked down shelf. That's how I like it. Probably because that's what was unique about the season for me. Fruitcake is unfindable the rest of the year.
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Yeah, I get that.

But when I try to dunk a slice in my coffee it breaks off and turns to sludge at the bottom of my cup!
 
Happyflowerlady said:
That may be true, but it is also what works best for me. My husband does not want to drive me to the store and shop, so I have to order from somewhere for delivery , no matter what. And you have to have some kind of a program from the store or a delivery service in order to have groceries delivered.
Walmart has the Assist program that is for low income people, so it costs me less to belong to their program than to use Instacart, or one of the other delivery services.
And we have no other grocery stores close to where we live, so if we do shop elsewhere, we would have to drive quite a ways from our house to do that.

For me, in my circumstances, it is about the best option, at this point in my life.
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When your lazy and inconsiderate husband finds you don't have what he wants in the house just remind him he did not drive you to the store to shop. He'll then drive you to the store to shop and you can enjoy your freedom while he waits in the car. Someone trained you wrong. Would do you good to train your husband better. 😜 You need to begin a thread on SF and ask other wives how to train a husband. Enjoy your life.
 
Robb.hisself said:
I miss the catalogs. When the Christmas catalogs for Sears and JC Penneys were delivered they were hot items in the household. By the time the kids got their chance to look them over the adults had circled or written all over the pretty pictures. They were the source of delightful time spent by kids shopping for their Christmas presents from mom and dad Santa. The two most saddest moments of the Christmas season was when the tree was thrown out AND when the Christmas catalogs were tossed into the trash bins. Then you knew Christmas was over.
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Oh I loved the catalogs too, trying to pick up your order from the store was the real pain :)

I remember those days, paging through whole catalogs writing up Christmas lists and dreaming....I'm still a bit bitter I didn't get that CHiPS power wheel motorcycle. Arrrgh. (Had fantasies of whizzing up and down my hill at 5 mph....)
 
Robb.hisself said:
When your lazy and inconsiderate husband finds you don't have what he wants in the house just remind him he did not drive you to the store to shop. He'll then drive you to the store to shop and you can enjoy your freedom while he waits in the car. Someone trained you wrong. Would do you good to train your husband better. 😜 You need to begin a thread on SF and ask other wives how to train a husband. Enjoy your life.
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It is not that at all, @Robb.hisself .
My husband is the best man ever; he is kind, considerate, and caring. I just did not realize that someone might understand what I was saying in the manner that you did.
Let me start over, please.

Because I was having bad dizzy spells last year (probably from some of my heart meds), I decided that it was not safe for me to drive when I wanted to go somewhere, in case I got really dizzy, or even passed out.
This put all of the burden of driving on my husband, who shouldered that responsibility, along with other chores around the house, as I became less able to do things.

My husband is a Viet Nam vet, and being in crowds of people at the stores is something that is hard for him, so out of consideration for HIM, I chose to order groceries online, rather than ask him to drive me to the store each time.
This man is a Prince, treats me like his Princess, and would take me anywhere I asked him to, regardless of how difficult it was for him to do.
Anything I can do to make his life better, I will happily do.
 
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Nathan said:
The reusable K cups I have are like these at Amazon. I use Don Francisco Espresso, which is fine ground.
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I've been thinking about getting a coffee maker of some kind since it's just me now. We always used a perk coffee maker and David always made the coffee for us because he got it just right. I haven't had a decent cup of coffee since he died in October. I've been making only 6 cups in the percolator and it lasts me 2 days (I use the microwave to heat it on the second day).

What maker do you use for your individual cups??
 
I shop at Walmart more than any other store. I like it and it has exactly what I want. As for the prices going up, well yeah, of course they are going up. It doesn't make sense to me how all the other stores can raise their prices but Walmart shouldn't?

I used their delivery service for the first time last week and it was excellent. I also shop at three other stores in my area where I use Instacart and one I can go to on my mobility chair. They all have higher prices than Walmart. I shop Walmart online as well as Amazon. Sometimes Amazon is the cheapest of all.
 
old medic said:
From what I've noticed, prices are up everywhere on most things...
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Indeed. I keep track of prices in stores I shop in. I've noticed that prices of many items are up 25, 50, even 100% since last year. That's not inflation. That's gouging price manipulation. I just don't believe all this inflation is due to shortages or wage increases. Those excuses are simply fake. And being fake to excuse them for the sake of increasing profit. Fight back. Stop buying. When people stop buying then you will see what prices really are.
 
Happyflowerlady said:
I like Dollar General also, and have found that a lot of things are about the same price as Walmart, but some things are more (mostly food items), and some things are cheaper.
Our Dollar General has almost empty shelves, and all of the shopping carts have disappeared (stolen most likely) which makes it harder to shop there if you are getting anything large, or very many items. It sure is much easier to find a place to part at the dollar store than at Walmart.

I do order my groceries from Walmart because i have the Walmart+ Assist with free delivery. They have pretty much eliminated all of the checkers at Walmart, so we seldom shop inside the store now anyway.
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Right! I go to the Dollar General and the like. I still go to Wal Mart, but on Wednesday-that is the meat market day when things are marked cheaper.
 

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