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Post by Skellinton on Jul 14, 2014 0:36:19 GMT
I like ours. I generally go to Walmart for staple groceries or the weird food only they carry (root beer frosting, anyone?). Our big walmarts stopped selling the bake at home tortilla taco salad shells, but the neighborhood market carries them, so that is another reason I like them. They are smaller and don't have all the variety the big stores do, but they certainly have enough. There are give and takes. Parking is a nightmare and the clientele isn't as entertaining, but they seem cleaner and more inviting and they have self checkouts. ETA. I don't buy meat, fresh baked bread or produce at Walmart. At our big walmart the bakery is ok, but the produce is always yucky looking as is the meat. I am spoiled by our farmers markets and local produce store on that respect though. Eliminating those items makes a difference on how I feel about shopping at the neighborhood market vs. the traditional store. What!?! Holy moly, I never knew I needed this in my life until now. I personally hate root beer, but fortunately my mother and nephew love it, so I had an excuse to buy it for her birthday! It was 1.00 per canister and says on the label it is a Walmart exclusive. It smelled just like root beer!
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Post by atomicdog on Jul 14, 2014 0:36:39 GMT
We've had ours open for about a year now. HUGE selection of groceries, plus all the dry goods and pharmacy kind of things in the regular Walmart. Same low pricing - store's been kept up beautifully AND they actually have a lot of registers open - all at the same time!!! I haven't looked to see if there are the "people of Walmart" there - generally I'm afraid that I'm one of them......
Cindy
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Post by lbp on Jul 14, 2014 0:39:56 GMT
They are putting three in our Roanoke, VA. I seldom go to Walmart and none of these new ones will be one my path to work, so I doubt I will go to them. But I am glad they are putting one in a very "grocery locked" poorer section of the town. A lot of these people have a hard time getting to a grocery and this one will be right on the bus route and also within walking distance of several subsidized housing homes.
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Post by caro on Jul 14, 2014 1:06:56 GMT
We love ours for the most part. Some of the produce can be iffy. Smaller store great prices.
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Post by airforcemomof1 on Jul 14, 2014 1:32:42 GMT
I've been told one will be built on the other side of town from where I live. There's only one grocery store in that area so people living near there will probably be glad.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 1:39:48 GMT
We're getting one too. My Inlaws love it, they say it has better produce and better prices than the local grocery store. I'm not a wal-mart hater by any means, but I am careful of what I buy there. If they have better produce they'll get my business.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 1:47:23 GMT
We have several and I really like them. There are some Great Value items we prefer over any other brand, so we do shop Walmart. Not having to deal with the nuttierness of a super center for bread, dairy and cat food is a tremendous time and energy saver.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Jul 14, 2014 1:48:03 GMT
We have one. My go-to store is Raley's but for some items, I buy them at the WalMart NM. Example: DH's juice is $4.99 at Raleys, $2.48 at WM. My cereal is $3.68 at WM and $4.99 at WM. Canned goods are cheaper too. Those are the basic things I buy. And I like that they have self-checkout!
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Post by schizo319 on Jul 14, 2014 1:48:38 GMT
They recently built one down the street from us. It's nearly become our "main" grocery store. I'll hit another one a couple times a month because the WMNM doesn't have a large selection of the yogurts that I take for lunch every day. I like that it's small and I can get in and out in record time (and 4 blocks from my house). Dh likes that he can plan dinner on the fly and run down there to pick up whatever he needs. I really do prefer other stores because of the selection, but for the basics, it's great.
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Post by disneypal on Jul 14, 2014 2:08:35 GMT
There is one near me....we really like it. It is just basically the grocery store part of Walmart (but on a little smaller scale)
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Post by CarolT on Jul 14, 2014 2:51:41 GMT
There is one on my way home from work (on the right side of the road, and everything). I stopped there one time for soda or something like that... I hated it. The lighting was weird, it was laid out in an odd fashion, and the registers were all self check out. I won't go again anytime soon. I'll stick to Publix - "where shopping is a pleasure"
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Post by Mary Kay Lady on Jul 14, 2014 3:56:47 GMT
I drive past one several times a week. It has a pharmacy that's open 9-9 m-sat and some on sun but I don't know the Sun hours. The store itself is open 24/7. I seldom shop there. I'm a Kroger kind of girl, as I seem to be able to get better bargains there.
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Post by BarbaraUK on Jul 14, 2014 10:09:16 GMT
The supermarkets here in the UK have been opening these shops for a while now - including ASDA which is our Walmart - and they are really handy for popping into for a few things, especially on the way home from work!
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Post by kittens on Jul 14, 2014 11:13:08 GMT
I have one less than a mile from my house. I love it for last minute items. I can walk up and back pretty quickly and it is cheaper and closer than the Publix
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