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Post by breezygardener on Oct 7, 2023 11:35:07 GMT -5
I still go there once in a blue moon for something, but most things I used to get there, like the bread and WW flours, they stopped carrying, in place of stocking things twice the price! There are a number of things like that, that just aren't in the store anymore. And the gardening section is pathetic - I thought more people are getting into gardening since the pandemic, and they would have a better gardening dept., but the two stores near me almost looked like a garden section in January, the few times I went in this year. I hear much better reports about stores all around the country - don't know what it is about my area. While our store has also dumbed down their garden section, as far as the rest of it, they're amped way up, if anything. I find upscale brands of all kinds of things in our store - & at lower prices than anywhere else, even online. Lots of Hispanic & Asian brands, as well as pickles, preserves, hot & other sauces, vinegars, oils, etc., etc. All kinds of premium stuff. Recently they started carrying the "Cleveland Kraut" brand of fresh fermented sauerkrauts & kimchi, which I love. They also have absolutely terrific fresh produce - much better than other stores. I actually love browsing food there. Now - other Walmarts in our general area? Not so much if at all. The Walmart one town over is absolutely abysmal. I wouldn't shop there if the food were free. It's odd how one Walmart can be so fantastic while another close-by can be so awful.
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Post by gardendmpls on Oct 8, 2023 20:03:41 GMT -5
Probably depends on the individual store's management.
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Post by emmsmommy on Oct 9, 2023 16:44:05 GMT -5
Well we have three Walmart stores within 30 miles. One used to have a decent selection of gardening stuff but other than the promix and landscape bricks I picked up on clearance, nothing really spectacular this year, but they do have a fabric selection. The other we occasionally visit has an even smaller selection of gardening stuff and no fabric section at all. The other we only visit if we need to go to the DMV or are in the area and garden selection isn't really impressive but the fabric selection is much bigger (though they've downsized quite a bit). Little to no ethnic foods at any of them-have to visit the bigger towns for that.
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Post by Mumsey on Oct 10, 2023 5:19:44 GMT -5
I was getting steamed in Walmart in Marion, IA the other day. Saturday and crowded. Long lines at the self checkouts. Even longer at the 3 one with actual people. Got in line in self check out and as I got closer a small sign said "cash only". I mentioned it to people behind me and most of them left the line. Well crap, so I headed to another one where there are probably 10 registers. I was directed to a new fangled one, a tiny little area to scan items. And no counter space to put things, just the machine and bags below. And they don't make a sound to know you have scanned it. And slow to show on screen. I had one item scan 3 times, then to wait for associate to clear and fix. Then she tried to accuse me of not scanning an item in my bag. She was wrong. Never again, especially on Saturday. I just about left the cart in it's tracks and wanted to walk away.
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Post by gardendmpls on Oct 10, 2023 5:56:36 GMT -5
The one kind of self check I like is where you carry a scanner with you and scan as you fill your cart. I set open bags in the cart, so I sort things as they are scanned. At check out you just scan the scanner you carried with you and the whole receipt prints out. Pay and done. The only thing I don't like is that sometimes the scales by the produce that print out a price tag to scan don't work and I have to do those at check-out. Once in a while a checkout person will come over to scan three random items to see that you scanned them in while shopping. Once they did that and one of the items wasn't scanned that I was sure I did. They didn't make a big deal- said it happens sometimes. They were very nice, but I still felt embarrassed.
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Post by emmsmommy on Jan 12, 2024 16:34:36 GMT -5
Change in the car's cupholder. Yep. I cleaned the car today.
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Post by breezygardener on Jan 13, 2024 12:28:26 GMT -5
Change in the car's cupholder. Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth & I used to travel more, change in the cars cupholder was a Godsend necessity for tolls.
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Post by desertwoman on Jan 13, 2024 13:09:51 GMT -5
Change in the car's cupholder umm isn't that what the cup holder is for?
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Post by breezygardener on Jan 13, 2024 13:38:15 GMT -5
umm isn't that what the cup holder is for? That's what I always thought - lol! Almost all change except for pennies went into the cupholder to use for tolls. Nothing was more aggravating than having to wait in line while some idiot scrambled through their pockets or purse looking for toll booth change. Geesh.
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Post by martywny on Jan 13, 2024 13:49:57 GMT -5
umm isn't that what the cup holder is for? You are only allowed to put your Aldi's quarter in the cupholder.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jan 13, 2024 14:37:38 GMT -5
I used mine when I went to Aldi's this morning.
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Post by datgirl on Jan 13, 2024 14:41:12 GMT -5
When I went to Aldi this morning, the cart had a quarter in it already. Of course that's how I left it.
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Post by breezygardener on Jan 13, 2024 14:58:59 GMT -5
You are only allowed to put your Aldi's quarter in the cupholder. I've yet to ever use a cart at Aldi. I just go in armed with my big canvas shopping bags & load them up.
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Post by desertwoman on Jan 13, 2024 15:35:27 GMT -5
You have to pay to use a cart??!!
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Post by datgirl on Jan 13, 2024 15:42:24 GMT -5
You put a quarter in to unlock the cart, then lock the cart up when you leave to get your quarter back. I used to shop like breezygardener,with just a bag, then I started buying more things there and it just seemed easier to get the cart than hauling a big ole bag around. There are days when I don't get a cart though.
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