Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Is Walmart feeling some pain?

The delivery thing is catching on. Costco's doing it now within certain distances from the store. $35 minimum, free delivery with orders over $75. I haven't compared online prices to store prices to see if they're jacking them up.

+1 on the employees filling grocery carts. It was a major pain. They had the attitude that we were in their way. I'm not in their way anymore. For the last few months its been Meijers or Schnucks.

I know a lot of folks who were liking it real well here too, but like I said, the local Walmart is starting to get less reliable and not all that much of a time saver as it initially was. Personally, I don't believe I'd want some store associate picking out fresh meat or short shelf life items like bakery and dairy products for me. And I would think too that Walmart probably requires order pickers to fill orders with items that have the nearest expiration dates.

And how many options does Southern Ohio have? I live near the river and know the area, so where are they hidden?

Nice thing about living here.
Mostly low middle income to upper low income.
Working people, many on assistance need the supplement
to fill the need of low wages.

People are conservative and frugal, but most aren't trash.
People of Wal-Mart moments are rare.

I honestly think it's an Amazon/DG one-day punch.
Amazon hits their more expensive, "luxury" items.
TV, electronics, things you can wait on.

DG, hits their quick trip, daily items. And, takes the Acess (EBT) card. Better prices, easier in and out.
We have one Wal-Mart in this county. 30 miles in three directions,
more to the East to find another. DG has at least 6. Strategically
placed, most working people will be within a mile or two of one
sometime during the drive home.

I was in the local store last week with a list of 7 items. Only one was in stock.

There is always plenty of “ Big Uns”. In the Walmart in Tomball!

I never shopped at Walmart much but last time I tried was over a year ago and decided never again.

I could barely stomach the place the way it was, if it wasn't the shoppers walking their mutts through the food isles it was their weird employees I let get under my skin.
I was down to hitting the place in the wee hours to avoid most of what I found repulsive and hey, at 4 am the place just wasn't that busy.
I go rollin' in around 4 or 4:30 and find the once 24/7 operation closed. Seems they had new hours, something like 6am to midnight.

Now they must do all that shelf stocking while the isles are filled with people trying to shop. I just never went back after that.

Something is changing there......

For those odd ball items I use to purchase at Walmart, I had to find another resource.
I hit my first Dollar General and was pretty surprised to see how they directly targeted Walmart with their inventory and pricing structure.
They don't carry everything so still needing another resource I stumbled into my first Save-A-Lot grocery.
I found they were doing business much like Dollar General, obviously directly targeting Walmart with inventory and cheaper pricing.

Neither Dollar General or Save-A-Lot are ever crammed with people, never seen a dog walking the food isles at either place and I'd venture to say I spend less on the items I once bought at Walmart now days.

From what I understand about the Save-A-Lot stores, you can have either a really good one or a really bad one, just depends on where you're at.

Yeah, Walmart has some competition out there that is doing fine but I doubt Walmart is going to go under anytime soon.

If they just threw in the towel and quit trying to change in order to keep up with the times they would probably die much like Sears, it's take decade or two before they were to completely fade away.

They've changed their website to be more for online shopping. I used to be able to search for an item and it would tell me which Isle and shelf to find it on. That appears to be gone. It was a big help sometimes to avoid having to find a clerk to find something.

Don't most things ship free with Prime?

It's not 'free' because you pay for Prime, but it is handy. It also gets them a lot of business because people have paid for it and want to get their money's worth.

Dollar General is doing exactly what Wal-Mart did in its early years. Wal-Mart built small stores in smaller communities, stocked the most common items, and sold at every day low prices. They used centralized distribution centers to ensure stable in stock positions and to get items to stores on short notice.

Wal-Mart bought Jet in 2016 thinking they could shape it into Amazon's chief competitor. That hasn't worked out well and Jet is now a niche operation that I don't think will last. Wal-Mart is now focused largely on Wal-Mart online and is using third party (a la Amazon) vendors extensively.

The biggest advantage the Walmart superstores have over their competitors is the convenience of one-stop shopping in a indoor, climate controlled environment for most everyday things typical, average households need or want in groceries, hardware, clothing, automobile supplies, toys, electronics, over the counter health products, pharmacy, eyeglasses, etc., etc., etc., plus immediate, on the spot returns.

I was a Prime member from the day they came up with the idea.
I quit Prime on Amazons last rate hike.

My average Amazon monthly spending has plummeted by about 80% as a result.

I did a lot of needless spending because I was Prime.... if a vendor isn't offering a fair price with free shipping included I don't buy.

Which is exactly why we shop there.

I step into a Wal Mart store about 2x a year. I don't order anything from em on line.

Their sporting goods department is a joke and I would rather support the smaller sporting goods stores locally.

When the first Super Center hit the area 25 years ago 99% of the stuff in it was made in the US, not that way anymore. They would rather sell imported junk at cheaper prices than sell quality merchandise.

They get very little of my money.

Had to go to the Rx in one yesterday for the wifes grandmother's prescriptions other than that it's been about 9 months since I swung in.

Fugg em, non ammo selling pricks.

Bet Ol' Sam is all twisted up in his grave.

Weren’t you the guy that “hadn’t stepped foot in a Walmart in 30 years, blankety blank blah blah blah by God, commies, etc etc” ??

Or was someone from Jerkwater, Idaho?

Wal-Mart Express was an attempt to compete with the dollar stores and it was a complete failure.
They were only around for about five years or so.

Wal-Mart feels the pain these dollar stores are inflicting....

Since Walmart is one of the things that it's popular on the Fire to hate, there are at least 2 or 3 threads like this a year on here. Yet, Walmart keeps on chugging along.

If you don't like them, don't shop there. It's just that simple. But, keep one thing in mind.............you're $11.73 purchase at Dollar General isn't going to hurt Walmart one little bit.

Ummmm, I don’t believe that their milk, butter, deli meat, wonder bread, dog food, Pall Malls, iceberg lettuce, orange juice, Miller lite, cranberry juice, pork n beans, 7-up, ketchup, Vienna sausages, toilet paper, toothpaste, dial soap are made in China

Now, if I’m in there and need a new I-phone charger cable, yeah that probably made in China.


Boo freakin hoo