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Cool. I never shop there, I dont know why people do.
"Food deserts" exist. For some, Walmart is their only grocery store within a reasonable distance.
I never really thought about walmart having groceries.
The USDA says a food desert is where a store is 1 (ONE!) mile away in urban settings.
The fuck? A mile? You mean a ten to 15 minute walk?
Edit: To be clear, I am complaining not about the distance or the time, be accessibility, it should be a 15 minute walk, but it American areas could be accross 10 lanes, or along busy roads. Accessibility to everything can be a pain in the ass and there should be walkable, bikeable, or transportation options. Nevermind just the groceries.
If you are too poor to afford a car, or have a medical reason as to why you can't drive, accessing fresh and health food is a monumental challenge that can wipe out hours of your day.
My closest grocery store is 3 miles away. By bus, it's a 30-60 minute trip one way because it involves a transfer; miss the connection and you're waiting 30 mins. By bicycle it's a 15 minute trip. If I am walking it, It's taking me an hour. The best part is the closest store is much smaller than those further away, (in the suburbs,) and they leave molded fruits and vegetables out hoping people won't notice. Quality of food is trash there. Don't have a bike, can't afford bus, spend 2+ hours of your day trying to obtain healthy food.
The next closest is 5 miles away, and also involves a bus transfer. It's a 30 minute bike ride in heavier traffic, and I am walking one and a half hours to 2 hours one way. Quality of food there is also questionable, but better than the closest store. Don't have a bike, can't afford bus, spend 3+ hours of your day trying to obtain healthy food.
My preferred store to shop at is 10 miles away. It's on a bus route that doesn't involve a transfer and would take 30 minutes via bus, 1 hour via bike, and several hours if I attempted to walk to it. Don't have a bike, can't afford bus, spend nearly a work day trying to obtain healthy food.
There are corner stores a 15 minute walk from me, (Stewarts.) Most of the food there is processed, (Frozen pizza, frozen microwave meals, ice cream, chips, meat jerky, cookies, candy.) I think they have pasta and sauce in the jar. Fresh items I have access to there are eggs, cheese, sour cream, bacon, milk, and bread which is often stale. Sometimes they have a few bananas, potatos, tomatos, or lemon/lime, but most of the time when I go there, they happen not to be in stock. I can access flour and sugar there also, but the prices are way worse than the grocery store. Don't have a bike, can't afford bus, spend 30 minutes of your day obtaining shit food and pay a higher premium for it.
I love being blamed for being obese when poverty forces shitty food prices an choices upon me. Good news, I'm losing weight because I'm skipping meals. Thanks poverty.
You, really, cannot fathom why people would shop at Walmart?
Really? You are incapable of critically thinking about it? Unable to understand the world around you to the minimum degree necessary to understand why Walmart exists and thrives?
I highly doubt that, because I doubt you are proud of being ignorant or proud of flaunting anti-Intellectualism.
Pretending we don't know why something is, and being proud to be ignorant, is a form of self defeatism where we hand control to these companies. Who survive on data and knowledge, by denying ourselves the data and knowledge to do something about it and help others do something about it.
Fuck if I know why people would go there, I have been to a few and they never have anything I want, they obviously purchase the cheapest crap they can, and I am aware of the rush to the bottom of quality and price by killing small business.
Yes, I cannot understand why people would go there. To do so is not in their best interest. But frankly maybe it is because the people that do shop there for the most part look like they vote against their best interest and not really have much critical thought themselves.
Well, I'll tell you why I do.
Walmart corporate sucks. Yep. But you know who else sucks? Most other corporations. Walmart is not significantly more evil than the rest.
I'm a wheelchair user. I am independent to the point of driving to dialysis, but not grocery shopping. So I use delivery. You know who the only store is that doesn't charge me extra? Walmart.
They're not the lowest in price - Aldi and Lidl are - but Walmart is still cheaper than the other mainstream grocery brands, and I'm poor
Quality is pretty decent all across the board. Not special or amazing, but pretty solid.
They really have their shit together. We just moved and I have InHome now, meaning when I place an order, I get either 9a-12p window or 1p-5p window (my choice), and they bring stuff into the apartment - into the kitchen. Also, I cannot tip, meaning no decision or choice on the matter.
I'm not passionate about Walmart. I wish other stores would get their shit together like them, though, because I'd like to throw my business around. I really wish I had better access to Aldi and Lidl, but I can't pay the inflated instacart/doordash prices for groceries, and I hate instacart grocery shoppers. Nice poeple, but they can never find everything and having to babysit the chat and hope they don't pull nonsense right before checking out so I don't have time to catch them....... it's not been good experiences.
Walmart ain't perfect and it's annoying when they're out of something or they make a mistake, but they fix mistakes, and overall, it's a solid service.
Should anyone else use it? Up to your needs. I'm glad to have it, though.