Here's How Walmart Became The #1 Grocery Store In The Country en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:11:30 -0500 Meredith Lepore SpunkyBunks Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:46:32 -0500 Walmart's produce, meat dept, and bakery suck! Have you seen such atrocious quality? I still have a job and will stick to the good ol' grocery stores. If you want to see something interesting, peek inside the basket of a low-class shopper. Nothing but overprocessed sodium and sugar infused junk. No wonder there's a diabetes epedemic and insurance rates are skyrocketing. I'm tired of subsidizing these losers who refuse to eat healthy. And arm twisting Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:32:18 -0500 Walmart has a lot of leverage to screw suppliers down to the last nickel charge it Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:35:55 -0500 hell freezes over before i set foot in a chinamart, buy american tard Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:53:40 -0500 PRICE, PRICE, PRICE. See, it's a depression in everything but name and people just don't have money. Raymond Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:54:20 -0500 Our city hall blocked Wal-mart from adding a grocery section to their store. The Weston chain (owned by one of Canada's richest) paid its union to launch a public awareness campaign against Walco so people would boycott walco and buy weston. Meanwhile ....Weston union dues paying workers earn minimum wage still after 3 years. Walco pays better...but unionist brothers and sisters earning $100,000 have no qualms about shopping at union stores where brothers and sisters earn $15,000 AND pay income taxes & municipal taxes so the chosen unionists get their entitlements. WN Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:49:45 -0500 If there's any privately-held company whose internals would be interesting, it's Aldi. Some of their efficiencies (multiple barcodes on every item, no published phone number for the store, coinlock carts, non-free bags) are astounding. They also pay staff fairly well, because they have to get decent help to survive the hyper-Taylorism they've implemented. mario Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:09:02 -0500 Aldi has lower prices than Wal-Mart on almost everything they carry. Sure, it is a much smaller chain, but it's so much easier to shop at an Aldi. All I'm saying is, watch out for Aldi, those guys know what they're doing. Although they will never be as big as Wal-Mart. Nick Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:59:44 -0500 It's all about prices. Most food prices at Wal-Mart are cheaper than at other food stores. And that's why I shop at Wal-Mart. But when I see cheaper prices at some other store, for fresh produce for example. Then I go and buy there, instead of at Wal-Mart. There nothing special about Wal-Mart, except its good prices.