After tonight, I'm officially done shopping for groceries at Wal-Mart. The company is trying to cut down on inventory while looking more like a department store instead of a warehouse, and that's all cool. The new home appliance section looks really nice and even some of the ghetto stores here are looking pretty inviting. But there aren't a lot of things they can do for the grocery aisles, but they still cut back there. Today we were shopping for chips, since we're having some company over tomorrow night, and all I could do is wonder where the rest of the chips are. Instead of one or two facings of chips, now there are three or four, sometimes two shelves worth. If the space is going to stay the same there, all they're doing is advertising the lack of selection. Even in the dairy section my choices seemed to be one name brand or the generic. That's it. Too expensive or low quality, which is more important?
Even worse for them, the grocery stores here keep having better and better sales. Those ribs I love making? Buy one, get two free. King crab legs are running $6 a pound and often times 12 packs of pop are 5 for $9. Why go through the hassle at the Wal, especially when you're rewarded with two checkout lanes who really aren't interested if you shop there or not?
On a side note, they got rid of those handy shelves for the $5 DVDs and we're back to digging through dumping bins like hobos seeking out a bear claw. Lots of changes, but few for the better.
But I always enjoyed digging through those bins with you on our wal-mart runs. I miss those wal-mart runs.
ReplyDeleteSorry it's taken me a while to check in with your blog, i'm reading through them now. I'm thinking about getting one here too...I can write notes on Facebook, but I think I want one that not everyone and their dog have access to or know about.