Super Target vs Super Walmart

[bookgirl]

No hits on the stories you mention....

I wish I could remember, it was like in late fall or winter it was a story on unionization and walmart. The story talked about why walmart was always thier main bone of contention but that target and kmart and some other big box store all followed the same guidelines about benefits. I'll try looking when I get to work tonight and post the story if I can find it.

 

[bookgirl]

We have a new Super Target opening here at the end of the month. It's an extra 5-10 minutes drive from the Super Wal-Mart, but I'll definitely shop there over Wal-Mart any day and pay the slightly higher prices. Our Wal-Mart always been disorganized, but a month ago they started "re-modeling", apparently to try to compete w/ the new ST and now it takes new meaning to disorganization. Everytime I go in there the entire layout of the store has changed, even if it's just been a couple days. Super Wal-Mart has lost what little business I was giving them over that.

That's happening here as well. The new one they just built by me is the model and now the others are trying to catch up, but it literally changes everyday. However it's made markdowns really nice.

 

[hercamore]

I shpoped at Super Target and Super Walmart yesterday. I was looking for something special in the paint dept.

Anway, I looked at milk prices both places. for regular gallon l% store brand milk, Super Walmart was .65 higher!

herc.

 

[IDoDis]

I shpoped at Super Target and Super Walmart yesterday. I was looking for something special in the paint dept.

Anway, I looked at milk prices both places. for regular gallon l% store brand milk, Super Walmart was .65 higher!

herc.

But Super Wal-Mart will price match. Their milk on the shelf now is $3.69 for the store brand (the highest I've ever seen it). I went shopping there yesterday and bought milk. I forgot to tell the checker to price match the milk because it's on sale somewhere for 2 gallons for $5.00. I checked my receipt when I got home and the checker price matched the milk, grapes, and cereal for me without me even asking. They do that all the time here.

I guess the store I shop at is not that bad compared to what some of you describe. It's clean and friendly. My only beef is that it gets too crowded at certain times of the day. If I can avoid that, I'm fine.

 

[klineyqueen]

I never realized that Walmart does Price Match!

 

[BeckyScott]

I (unfortunately) live in a town small enough that Wal-Mart rules the roost. The closest Target is an hour away, and it's not a Super. Going to Target is a huge thrill for me. Pathetic.

The other local grocery stores are alot more expensive. I know why, and I hate to not patronize them, but the difference in the grocery bill is huge, plus the Wal-Mart carries some products (specialty products, like soy cheese) that I can't get anywhere else in town.

Since there isn't a Target here, I don't know about the customer base, everyone in town, from the low-end all the way up to the doctor's wives, all shop at Wal-Mart. Ours is pretty clean. However, if given the choice, I'd be at Target in a heartbeat. I don't like Wal-Mart, but unfortunately they ran everyone else out of business. We got a Big Lots about a year ago that people are flocking to like crazy, love it!, but you never know what they'll have there, it's not like it's a substitute for a real grocery store.

 

[AmberI]

I love to shop a target, wal-mart just sucks. I hate every timewe buy food it goes bad in a day. We have really nowhere else to shop so I keep coming back to wal-mart. I sure miss Safeway and Belair

 

[cgcruz]

Although I do like how Target is better organized and cleaner, I will go to Walmart when I gotta do some major grocery shopping (non-meats or produce). You really save a lot of money going there compared to any other store. I'm not concerned about how Walmart is such an evil corporation. I doubt Target and the likes are paying their empoyees top wage. I dont have a walmart close to me, so I buy most of my groceries at my local Safeway. I really only go to Target for random stuff. It must be terrible to be a mom and pop store nowadays, but I still dont feel its my obligation to support their business. So, yeah, Walmart is filled with a bunch of America's trashiest, but I just go in and out as quick as possible.

One thing I hate is they have like 50 registers, but even when its insanely busy, they'll have 8 cashiers working!

 

[WendyisDarling]

Our Target is undergoing construction and will become a Super Target. yea! I guess...I wonder if it will become more crowded? I love to shop at Target, but try to avoid it as I swear it has a $50 admission price The have good deals, though and it is a pleasant experience. What was that term discussed earlier "spaving?" (spending to save).

In the same shopping plaza as our new Super Target is the "upscale" grocery store. It isn't really that upscale. It's nice though. Everyone there is very helpful. Groceries are taken to your car. They have a one hour limit day care (free), a cafe, organic foods, etc. The prices are a bit higher. I'm wondering how things will work out with a Super Target a few stores down.

I hate the Wal-Marts around us. They are dirty, the produce is always horrible, prices aren't well marked, more difficult to find healthier foods (one ex. all the canned fruit is in heavy syrup--that sort of thing), and they scream over the intercom the whole time. It drives me nuts. The LAST time I was in there among the many intercom messages was "So and So your baby's in the car", this was repeated 3 times! I had my cell out ready to call 911 when the announcements stopped (it wasn't during the summer, thank goodness, but STILL). The other customers are rude. Product placement makes no sense to me half the time. Then, the lines. Not uncommon to wait 30 minutes or longer to check out.

HOWEVER, my parents live in a rural area. Wal-Mart came in and ran out all the other grocery stores, so there is really no where else to shop within a 1/2 drive. The store is decent. I would shop there. The greeter is friendly...like he/she is actually glad you came to the store. The bathroom is even OK. Something is different about that one. Maybe it's the management or the people who shop there.

 

[Kat77]

There are filthy half naked children running around knocking down old ladies, and 250lb women in short shorts and belly shirts (to show off their navel rings) with their childrens names tatooed on their necks making out with the stock boy (their baby's daddy) etc. I am not kidding. It is human debri heaven.

There is a super walmart in a nearby town that IS this! DH won't go there for any reason. I am not so picky if on a mission- holiday shopping- but would prefer not go go there when it is avoidable.

Our towns super walmart is ok. I do not enjoy shopping there but it is tolerable and no scary people are lurking. They seem to perpetually stock which makes navigating the aisles suck. My lil bro works for a 'grocery only' walmart store so I use his employee discount and ask for price matching which makes shopping there a bigger bonus than it is for most people, without that perk I would probably avoid this store also (again- unless on a holiday shopping mission! Nothing stops me then!).

 

[rparmfamily]

HA~! Price match?? My Walmart makes it not worth it, LOL. You have to have ad in hand and then they have to call over 10 other "managers" to figure out if they can or will.

Target prices matches as well.

 

[IDoDis]

I never realized that Walmart does Price Match!

Yes, they do! Out here, the checkers have a clip with all of the weekly ads attached so if you forget to bring your ads they can check in their papers. Usually though, as the checker is ringing me up, I just say, "These are $--- at Smith's." And this is on sale for $--- at Raley's." She just punches in whatever prices I say. Often, though they already know the discounts, especially on real comon items like milk and produce, so I don't even have to ask. If I stop at the store unplanned on my way home and I buy milk, I'll ask the cashier if it's on sale anywhere. She always knows!!! They will match another store brand to the Wal-Mart store brand, too. Usually the milk on sale somewhere is a store brand.

 

[bookgirl]

I couldn't find the article though I did find some others in EbscoHost about similar subjects. Guess Target had a showdown in Chicago over taking public money subsidies and the workers groups threw a fit because they don't offer healthcare and benefits but they took money labled for worker incentives. Walmart is the favorite store of the majority of labor union members. Oh and there seems to be something brewing with Walmart-Obama-John Edwards. Those were recent guess I should have caught the national news more often.

Anyway I think it'll just come down to the old coke/pepsi, tastegreat/lessfilling debate. Target shoppers shop at Target and Walmart shoppers shop at Walmart.

 

[DiznEeyore]

Here in metro Detroit, we are getting a Super Walmart (just down the street from the current Walmart -- affectionately known as "Wal-Ghetto") and in the same parking lot, a Target Greatland (there is currently a regular Target at the other end of the same parking lot that the 2 new stores are going into ... it boggles the mind).

Anyway, a Greatland is different from a Super, right? I went onto the Target site and couldn't find any references to a "Greatland". I'm pretty sure we went to one a few years ago on vacation ... IIRC, it was larger than a regular Target, but didn't have the full grocery store that Supers do. Is that right? Anyone know for sure?

TIA!

 

[me again]

ah, come on....WalMart really isn't that bad!

Just make sure you use the bathroom before going in, don't drink anything so you won't have to use the restroom, take those sanatizing wipes for your hands, use them after you come out, don't buy any meat or produce, and you'll be fine

 

[Princess Minnie5]

The avarage income in the zip code is 200K, yet this walmart draws a HUGE crowd from far away. There are probably way over 5 walmarts in a 10 mile area and yet they drive past all of those to come to ours!

I know exactly what you mean. Ours is dirty and messy. That said, I do find myself in there more often than I'd like to admit. ST is just a mile away, but there are about 5 registers open with long lines at every one every time I go. Why do they have 30 registers?

SW has some great prices, but I've noticed that their prices are rising just like everyone else's. Same thing with Sams: I used to buy the 5 lb. block cheese for $9.88, now it's $12.52. How are Target brand foods? Great Value is hit or miss. I don't go near the meat section at SW.

 

[tacomaranch]

I am moving to Logan Utah next week. It is a college town, mostly LDS and Caucasian. The entire N. end of the town is all new. I went to the Wal Mart and just found college kids or families in the store. It was new, clean and bright. The folks were all clean, well mannered and nice.

I think my autistic son was the worst behaved kid in the store.

 

[brunette8706]

America is paying a very high price for those low prices you like at Walmart.

Walmart is one of the sleaziest companies around for how they treat their workers, and what they do to communities.

That's why we don't shop there.
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