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(1,520 posts)I'm the grocery shopper in my household... I tried shopping at Walmart.
I found that, excepting certain items, their prices to be higher than my neighborhood Tom Thumb (I live in Plano, TX)... The atmosphere is also not an atmosphere that I want to spend any time in...
The primary reason, I believe, is that Walmart doesn't have as many items in their Great Value store brand as does Tom Thumb (Safeway). Great Value also is sometimes nowhere near the quality of the national brands whereas Safeway's store brand is usually equivalent if not better.
The result is that I have to buy national brands at Walmart and that pushes my totals much higher.
So, I don't shop at Walmart. This is not only a moral choice, but an economic one. By the way, they manipulate their prices based on where the store is located. So, in the section of Plano that I live in the prices are consistently higher than in another Super Walmart that is also in Plano.