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Wal-mart

Wal-mart becomes Health Food Store........ read article.

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/0...could-feel-th/

[radio_flyer]

I voted Yes and Yes. If the prices are "lower" than the regular health food stores or grocery stores, I would of course by health food at wally world. Who would not want to save a few dollars on healthy food.

The prices for "health food" in most places are "outrageous". Only the "select" with lots of dollars can afford to pay the prices..

off topic.. but woohoooo I have one, lol, cucumber growing in my veggie garden. Lots of green, cherry tomatoes too.. Soon I will be munching down veggies grown with no chemicals, and the cost was minimum to grow them..

[sabby]

I shop at Wal-Mart on occasion. Food is another story for me there. I will only by frozen foods, and prepackaged foods from there, not the fresh veggies or other foods. I have seen too many rotten vegetables and fruits, fruit flies abound and it smells. I just won't do it, no matter how low the cost.

Hugsss
sabby

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radio_flyer said:
The prices for "health food" in most places are "outrageous". Only the "select" with lots of dollars can afford to pay the prices..

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I agree.......

I personally would eat bettre, if I could but only afford it - maybe this Wal-Mart change will help, for I shop there already.

[radio_flyer]

I would not buy rotten veggies or fruit. I would not even take them if they were given to me.. and yuk fruit flies.. and odors. ewww... But then again, ya could always boil them with soup bones and make interesting veggie soup.. Ha I can't believe I said that.

I am talking more or less if the fresh "health foods" look fresh and smell fresh..

[sabby]

Sorry radio_flyer, I knew that's what you meant, but I now have that aversion to the idea of Wal-Mart carrying it I suppose. I know I'm usually very supportive of things here, but this one is difficult for me. I guess I should just have not posted...I didn't want to bring down your post. Please forgive



Hugss
sabby

[radio_flyer]

Is ok sabau.. You did not "bring down" my post. We are all different, and have different opinions. I don't get offended if someone does not agree with me..

all is cool
hugggs

[sabby]

Thanks sweets

xoxoxo
sabby

[Perna]

I voted that they would succeed but I have never been a fan of WalMart and its policies. Their products are not the same as the more expensive "identical" products -- if you look at the pet food scare in detail, it is the named products primarily in the discount stores that had problems, not the named products in the "regular" or upscale grocery stores.

It is not just the buying in huge bulk that saves money for Wal-Mart so they can offer things for a lower price but because of their size they can ask for lower prices from the manufacturer but then the manufacturer "cuts corners" to be able to offer the "same" product at a lower price to them so they'll buy a zillion. Anyone who has had accounting knows about just-in-time supply, LIFO and FIFO, etc.; manufacturers constantly buying ingredients, the ingredient prices fluxuate and there's a fluxuating price/quality aspect also. Wal-Mart always takes the bottom price so they can offer an item the cheapest but sometimes that means there will be a cut in quality also. Who knows when? I don't want a cut in quality with my food and not know about it! Fruits and vegetables are too often picked unripened and then subjected to ripening agents, etc. so we can have them "fresh" at the grocery store. Processing and shipping is less expensive that way. Because that happens too often even in the "good" grocery stores in my area, I'm quite sure it happens even more often for a giant like Wal-Mart. I'd rather only be able to afford only 1 piece of "real" fruit than 10 pieces that were over "processed" in ways I have no/incomplete knowledge of. Our food industry brought us corn syrup and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil because they were "cheap" and easy and those are now being seen as the cause of our obesity and medical problems. I'd rather starve than eat cheap "food".

[radio_flyer]

I always thought "green giant" veggies were the same in ALL stores. Never heard of, for example, green giant making their canned veggies lesser quality to sell them to lets say "wally world, and then selling "higher quality" canned veggies to Super Fresh grocery store so Super Fresh can sell the veggies at $2.50 per can and Wally World $1.23.

I don't buy "wally world" name tagged foods. But then the only non-brand food I buy is Giant brand from the Giant Grocery Stores in Virginia.. oh hell, who cares.. if i am hungry enough, i will prob eat most anything.........

i actually do believe that there can be a difference in quality in canned food........i'm no fan of WalMart, so i better stay out of this discussion.

[radio_flyer]

I think everyone has an "opinion" and/or "choice. Many folks hate wally world. Many folks love wally world. We have the "freedom" to either shop at wally world or shop at another store. It is ok that folks don't like wally world.. I just happen to like wally world..

I know different quality in "canned foods" made by different manufacturers.

So, you are saying that " Green Giant" brand canned corn, for example, is made different quality for different stores they sell to? If I were to buy a can of Green Giant corn at wally world and a can of Green Giant corn at another grocery store, they would be of different quality???

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i'm no fan of WalMart, so i better stay out of this discussion.

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- Thanks for the LAUGH.