Is the Wal-Mart in your area open 24/7 and does it have Groceries?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

I work weird hours and sometimes I find myself at Wal-Mart at 2am buying groceries. I hate it but, there it is. x( :shrug:

[Deja Q]

1. Yup - and the selection is ho-hum... and avoid the "fresh" produce.

I do Cub or Sam's Club for vegetables and meats when possible; only boxed goods I'd go to WM for. WM otherwise has little in real savings, and Sams Club produce quality is rather higher.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. and the difference between Sam's Club and Wal-Mart is...

???

is the Sam's Club open 24/7...? Mine closes and I am not a member there. You have to be a member, right?

[Jamastiene]

29. The produce DOES suck at Wal-Mart.

The only produce I will buy at Wal-Mart are the green, red, yellow, and orange peppers. They are priced nicely and they are the only "fresh" produce there. Everything else claims it is organic, but smells like refuse from the garbage. I swear Wal-Mart must scour garbage all over the country to round up their "fresh" produce.

[DarkTirade]

2. Where I used to live there was a Super Wal-Mart with a grocery store

and there were two just plain Wal-Mart grocery stores nearby. When I was working the night shift I frequented one of them because it was on my way home from work, and that was the only time I had to go shopping most days.

Thankfully I live in an area where there isn't a Wal-Mart nearby, and I'm no longer working the night shift. And even if I did start again, the nearest 24 hour grocery store is a nice local business. :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. I think all the Local Grocery Stores in my area close at 11.

One tried the 24/7 thing but, it was not enough business at the time and it is too far out of the way.

[DarkTirade]

7. Yeah, the local grocery store in my town closes at 10

but there's a 24 hour Wegmans none too far from here (and closer than the closest Wal-Mart), which has grown pretty big but is still considered 'local' in this area because this is where it started. :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. Don't have a Wegman's in my area. --

This is the first I have heard of Wegmans. I wish them well. :)

[DarkTirade]

22. I hadn't either until I moved back here. :)

Apparently they're like the anti-Wal-Mart. They spread by providing good products and treating their employees well. :P They're only in the northeast so far.

[Zavulon]

46. They've made it down to Virginia.

I have a Wegmans discount card on my key ring, and during a recent trip to Upstate NY I couldn't believe how many places were there for me to use it.

[DarkTirade]

57. That far?

I didn't know that. :)

[Zavulon]

67. Yep. Sterling and Fairfax.

And, as I just posted in reply to someone else, one in Cockeysville, MD as well.

It's about time. Giant and Safeway are like CVS and Rite Aid compared to Wegmans and Topps.

[DarkTirade]

69. Topps I'd never heard of until I moved here either

and I've only seen one around here.

[Zavulon]

70. I saw an "international" Topps.

It was a supposedly "international" version of what a regular Topps is supposed to be, and it's the only one I've seen (I have never seen a "regular" Topps). right across the street from a bowling center called Maiden Lanes, or perhaps it's more accurate to say it was next to it in the same road but with a street to cross between them, with a gas station across the street and a German store called Aldi kitty-corner from it. One of the two streets involved is Maiden Lane, I forget the name of the other.

That "international" Topps was as big as any two grocery stores down here put together. Amazing store. I felt like a Soviet visiting the rich part of America.

[Midlodemocrat]

59. Only in NOVA, though? There isn't a Wegman's here in Richmond.

[Zavulon]

64. One in Sterling and one in Fairfax, as far as I know.

Also one in Cockeysville, MD.

[TommyO]

3. Yes, and yes. Fortunately the Wegmans across the street is also 24/7

It's family owned, and they treat their employees fairly, even making Forbes #1 best place to work as rated by employees. They've since dropped to #3, but it's still quite an achievement.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. Good on for Wegmans !! Great news to hear.

:applause:

[Ptah]

8. I'm not sure. With Safeway just two blocks away, I haven't need to find out.

Is it very busy at that hour?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. You would be surprised at the number of customers at that hour...

Nothing like earlier in the day but, still...

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. The closest one (which is still too far to drive to) isn't and doesn't.

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. This one did not either, at one time. It has since added the

Grocery side and started staying open 24/7...oh.well. I know I could do better with some better time management. Sheer laziness on my part and convenience. x(

Congrats on the house btw :hug: :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. I hear you on laziness... I am a class A procrastinator on just

about everything.

Thanks! :hug:

[Blue Diadem]

12. Walmart, Meijer and Kroger all run 24/7 here.

They tore down the smaller Walmart that wasn't that old and built a super Walmart in the college town. They just recently opened another super Walmart about 15 miles away in another smaller town that also has a Meijer, Kroger and Giant Eagle grocery store all within view of each other. I've heard that Kroger has broken ground for another store in that town as well. I'm not sure if Giant Eagle stays open 24/7 or not, but the other 3 do.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. Kroger has closed in my area and we don't have Meijer.

I used to live in a town that had a Meijer and I would shop there. I liked it just fine. We don't have a Giant Eagle. :shrug:

[Blue Diadem]

28. I've only been in Giant Eagle once and I thought it was expensive.

I never see their ads so I'm really not familiar with them other than the one trip to run in and get something quickly. At the time, they'd just opened and Meijer and Walmart hadn't been built yet.

[ghostsofgiants]

16. Yes and yes.

But there's a better store closer to my house that's open 24/7 so I go there if I have to buy groceries late at night.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. I wish I had that option...really, I do. Especially, in light of what

happened this past week. I want to part of the solution NOT part of the problem.

btw...Moody Blues = Prententious? Yea or Nay? :D

[ghostsofgiants]

23. Never did get around to listening to them. i'll check 'em when I get home from work tonight, haha.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

26. meh...

I guess playing with the London Symphony Orchestra automatically demands being called pretentious. ;)

[Lyric]

17. There are 2 Super Wal-Marts here. But the local Kroger stores are also

24 hours.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. Lucky you...that you have that option...

The Wal-Marts around here ran the Kroger out of town x(

[redqueen]

20. No.

The closest one is a 20 min. drive at least.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

24. ok

:hi:

[sniffa]

21. Don't know

:shrug:

I know they have some food but not "groceries" like they have at the Super-Duper Walmarts.

No idea about the hours of operation. Haven't been there in years.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

25. ok

:hi:

[Jamastiene]

27. Well, it's like this...

I live in a rural area. I do my grocery shopping for the most part at Food Lion,

BUT...

like right now when I have a cold, I might snooze until after 10:00 PM. If I needed to get something, I'd either have to drive over in a Theraflu induced haze or wait until I've slept some. If that means waking up NOT during Food Lion's hours, Wallyworld, here I come.

Also, the only "local" grocery store I know of is run by old man preacher Edwards over in Hamlet. I went to school with his son and his traumatized daughter. The kids were decent people, from what I remember. The dad, though... he gropes women's titties. My mother still cannot go to that store after years of trauma over him touching her breasts numerous times while she was trying to get out of the store with the groceries one day.

He purposely has those small grocery carts/buggies and they naturally overflow with your groceries and he needs to "help the lady out of the store" always.

I don't like male preachers groping my titties. Period. That's probably why I don't get along with male preachers to this day. I got groped too that same day my mom got groped a record number of times. I was only 11 years old at the time and already in a C cup.

Old man Edwards needs to be taken to a dark place far away where no one can hear his screams, by a few good men...and women too while I'm at it. I wonder how he'd like to be "groped" back. Nasty dirty old man, I hate him. He had the best rib eye steaks in town too. Damn shame.

I'm sure there is some major wrong with Food Lion too. I'm just sure of it. Let's see: you can't eat at Olive Garden, only the most expensive high dollar custom grown EVERYTHING with caviar is allowed. Else wise, you are eating slop and you are a red state moran. Not that this red state Democrat could even afford Olive Garden, much less an nice restaurant anyhow. My family calls Captain D's a restaurant. That's the absolute best we can ever afford. No kidding. Captain D's is expensive enough that in our budget it gets the status of being called a nice fancy restaurant.

Shopping at Wal-Mart automatically means you are less than AND a FReeper, never mind if you are poor and live in a rural area where it was specifically stated that Winn Dixie had to shut down along with one of the Food Lion stores before Wal Mart would put the super center in.

We had already lost Kmart, Roses, and all the other alternatives except the Family Dollar store and Lowe's(I am sure Lowe's is evil too although I don't see how, God, I love Lowe's) after they put the regular Wal-Mart in. Guess what the local politicians did? Guess? Bye bye Winn Dixie. Bye bye one of the Food Lion stores. Bye bye to our local music store and Sam Goodies too. Yup, our choices are limited to the Food Lion and Wal-Mart Super Center, that takes up 5 acres just in store space, never mind the parking lot, now.

Sure, we have dollar stores galore(now), but they are all in tiny dusty buildings and barely have anything. What they do have is broken or out of date. FORGET buying any food in any dollar store or side store in a rural area. Anybody who lives in a rural area knows exactly what I mean too. You are likely to find maggots or anything else in stuff bought from dusty little side stores. You cannot even trust gas stations to have anything fresh in unless it is chips and soft drinks, and I just learned the other day that soft drinks can be out of date in even the most trusted gas station.

We do have Eckerd's, oops, I mean Rite Aid(they just bought Eckerd's out last year or year before last or something like that), but absolutely everything is 10 times as much there cost wise. I can get my HCTZ at Wal-Mart (one month supply) for $4. At Rite Aid(Eckerd's at the time), it was $10 for a month's supply. Zoloft was $92 at Eckerd's and it's about 1/4 the price at Wal-Mart. Forget shopping for any food there either. You'll pay 10 times as much and it'll be out of date.

Am I a Wal-Mart cheerleader? Hardly. My Wal-Mart rants can be found throughout DU. My latest is about when my headlights were on and it was discussed right in front of me in whispered tones as if I couldn't hear by the Pharmacists at our local Wal-Mart here in Rockingham (well, it's between Rockingham and Hamlet. So, there are twice as many annoying people in there when I go). I despise people in my local area. They are the most annoying self centered obnoxious slow rude self righteous aggrandizing judgmental people in the world. I swear by it. Hey, Wal-Mart Pharmacists here in Rockingham: "Next damn time I'm going to wear a coat and no shirt. Want me to flash you, so you can get a better view of my nips and discuss them in deep detail instead of filling my damn prescription sometime before Christmas?" :middlefingertoRockingham'sWal-MartPharmacistsbitemejustgivememydamndrugsandkeepyourtittywatchingtoyourself:


I despise going to Wal-Mart and put it off until I have to go about 1 time a month to get my prescriptions and my cats' treats, which no one else carries now. Food Lion used to have them, but they quit carrying them.

Also, Wal-Mart is the only place I can find Swanson's white meat chicken in a can for my chicken and rice meals. Food Lion, here, only carries the Tyson canned chicken and I hate that shit. I'd be better of scraping some roadkill off the road than eating Tyson. I just don't like Tyson at all. Do I belittle anyone else who does? No. To each their own. I prefer Swanson chicken though.

I could rant about Wal-Mart with the best of them, but for rural dwellers on a really tight budget, there really is no other choice. I can either go to old man Edwards store and get my titties groped, get to Food Lion before they roll up the damn sidewalks at 10:00 PM, or go to Wal-Mart and give the Pharmacists a thrill ogling my titties. My titties sure seem to be a source of endless amusement here in small town redneck America. :wtf: is it with grocery store workers and pharmacists in my area that they cannot take their eyes off Perky and Perkier?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

30. I wish I could nominate your post...really, I do K and R. well done!!

:hug: :kick:

[AwakeAtLast]

31. Yes, plus a Meijer and a Kroger that are open 24/7

All within a mile of each other and they all seem to do well.

I like Meijer better, but sometimes I can't find exactly what I want unless I go over to the Wal-Mart.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

32. I used to love Kroger...it is gone. Meijer is not here.

What do you find at Wal-Mart that you can't find at Meijer?

[AwakeAtLast]

37. Certain name brand things that I like better than others

I can't think of any particular thing off the top of my head, but then again, since I moved into a new house I shop on a different side of town and haven't been to Meijer in awhile. I need to go back there. They don't always carry a lot of choices. Only a few kinds of different things, so they won't always have the exact kind I want. That is probably how they keep their prices lower, though.

[billyskank]

33. I don't have a Wal-Mart in my area.

Wal-Mart own Asda in the UK, but they don't have any stores under their own name. My local supermarket is closed at 10pm on weekdays so if I needed something between then and 7am I'd be SOL.

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

36. interesting. How far is the Asda from you? Is it open 24/7?

You work the regular M-F/9-5 job, too. That helps.

[billyskank]

40. Dunno if I have Asda near me.

Although they are owned by Wal-Mart, they are not the dominant supermarket chain here in Britain. That is Tesco, although my closest store is Sainsburys (the second biggest chain). Asda is a distant third, I think.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

41. distant third and climbing fast? Is Tesco good to its employees?

I am guessing you shop at Sainsburys.

[billyskank]

44. Not climbing particularly past that I hear of.

I wouldn't know if the Wal-Mart strategy would work here, and they don't seem to be trying it anyway.

I haven't heard that Tesco is bad to its employees, although that said I wouldn't want to work there.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

47. Thanks for giving me a personal glimpse into a way of life on the

other side of the "pond." :D :hug:

[old mark]

34. Yes and Yes. We shop there several times a week,

were just there this morning.
We have also both got new glasses there after having our eye exam from the opthamologist at Walmart.

We have purchased everything from new tires to indoor houseplants and propane gas cylinders at Walmart.
The only thing we get elsewhere is meat and seafood.
Even their produce is very good.

mark

[Tuesday Afternoon]

38. They make it very easy don't they?

I have bought the shrimp cocktail platter. It was ok.

[txwhitedove]

35. Yes, 24/7 and only 2-blocks away so it's TOO convenient...

except for nasty people who actually want to race to the least busy checker - WTF?
Yesterday we just stopped for dog food and quick cash because otherwise it's $3+ charge
at closest ATM. Got to Wal-Mart in time to see 7 police cars, 10 policemen, an ambulance
and 2 Wal-Mart workers mopping blood from the sidewalk. Merry Christmas?????

:shrug:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

39. damn. So sad. so damn sad.

x(

Wonder where this puts the Rapture Index?

[Zavulon]

42. As for the first part of your question,

I honestly don't know. As for the second, the answer is no (Laurel, MD).

Where I spend most of my time, which is in Arlington, VA, I don't even know where the closest Wal-Mart is. There's a Target down the road, I shop there from time to time.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

43. We have a Target...I go there sometimes. I have not been in a while.

There Gorcery selection is not as good as Wal-Mart from what I recall.

[Lucian]

Yes and yes.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

50. ok

:hi:

[JVS]

45. Yes. I wouldn't go there at all if it didn't have groceries.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

49. Those 2 things are what keep me coming back...The hours and

the groceries. I can find just as good prices elsewhere in town but, not the hours. x( :shrug:

[JVS]

51. It depends on what the item is.

Some items are good deals. Sometimes they think they can trick you into paying more than the other store.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

53. exactly!! I have found that out. The old bait and switch.

I am "careful and cautious" about what I purchase there. ;) :toast:

[yewberry]

48. Not really one close by.

I'd actually have to drive out of the city to get to one, and the closest one doesn't seem to have groceries or stay open 24 hours. Every few weeks I do make a trek (woohoo, 5 big miles) down to Fred Meyer and Trader Joe's for groceries (but they don't stay open late, either.)

Safeway, QFC & Thriftway are pretty close by, and they're all 24-hour stores.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

82. ok

:hi:

[Liberal_in_LA]

52. We have 24 hour supermarket in LA, the major Ralphs never close

[Tuesday Afternoon]

54. well. of course! I would expect nothing less from LA

:D

[jeff30997]

55. I have no idea.

I've been boycotting them for a very long time and when I moved here 4 years ago Wall-Crap closed

the store in my area because the employees wanted to join a Union.:(

[Tuesday Afternoon]

61. Wall-Crap...

:thumbsup:

[Arugula Latte]

56. No clue. I don't need to go in it, so I don't.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

62. ahh...

need vs want....

wonder how many of us actaully NEED to shop there.:shrug:

[Midlodemocrat]

58. Not sure. Yes. Cheap ones.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

63. I have really given it a lot of thought in view of what happened

and it is the hours as much as anything else that have seduced me. That, and there is no denying that the price is right.

[Midlodemocrat]

65. Save Money. Live Better. It's the American Way.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

68. There is an obvious hole in this theory...

somewhere, I'm sure .... ;)

[hippywife]

60. They have several

in addition to their Neighborhood Markets. I don't shop there at all. If there is something I need that only they sell, I change to another brand at another store or do without. Been doing that for several years now and not missing too much at all. That we don't eat processed foods makes it that much easier.

I don't even consider they exist when I do my weekly grocery shopping while planning my stops on the route home.

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

66. yes...on route home (for me) happens to be about 11pm --

what choice would I have in your neck of the woods? :shrug: :hi:

[hippywife]

71. Well, of the national/regional chains

there is Food Pyramid and I stop into Aldi's to buy staple items every couple of weeks. There is also the local owned Reasor's chain. There is a small grocery that is locally owned on my way home, too. I work in town but live 20 miles south of town in a very rural area. Some of them are open late but not all. I adjust my schedule to accommodate that. It's taken some planning, readjustment, and the willingness to pay a little extra even on our small incomes but it's become habit now and I don't really think anything of it anymore.

We also buy all of our meat and whatever vegetables are available by the season through our local food coop which aids in keeping small farmers willing to raise clean, safe food alive, so it helps other local families, too.

[KamaAina]

72. I think so.

:shrug:

I've never been. And it's three blocks away.

Fortunately, a Japan-owned store (called "Don Quijote"!) that is also 24/7 and contains a full grocery store is one block away. So no Sprawl-Mart for me! :bounce:

edit: spelling, italics

[Tuesday Afternoon]

79. Lucky You

:hi:

[Burma Jones]

73. No and No

The County has zoning laws that have effectively banned Superstores.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

80. and Wal-Mart has not beat them down...

cool. :hi:

[AlCzervik]

74. there is a walmart in my city but i don't know if it carries groceries and i don't know

the hours of operation.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

81. ok

:hi:

[Lady Freedom]

75. We have two here.

One on the west side and one on the east side of town. and they are both open 24/7 and are super centers (grocery and department store combination).

[Tuesday Afternoon]

83. ok, thanks

:hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

76. I know of at least 3 Super WalMarts within 20 minutes of my house that are 24

hr stores, with grocery departments. There are several more in the area, just not that close to my house.

If I had to shop weird hours for food, I would probably end up going there on occasion. But I wouldn't like it much

[Tuesday Afternoon]

78. I do end up going there on occasion and I don't like it much --

thanks for understanding :pals:

[mwooldri]

77. 4 Walmarts in GSO.

3 Super. 2 24/7. The 3rd Super was 24/7 but due to "high shrinkage rates" decided to close at night to drop an opportunity for thieves to operate.

The 3 Super have a full supermarket range of goods. The 4th non-super has some groceries, but no fresh produce.

The best Wal-Mart service I ever received was at that non-Super WalMart; quickest checkouts, friendliest staff. My wife worked there though, and she got accused of stealing from the cash register. She cleared her name... and then quit. I only shopped that Wal-Mart because at that time it was the most convenient to where we lived at that time. My wife will shop at the store she quit from though, because all the staff have turned over since she left (10+ years ago).

We do have a choice of 24/7 grocery shopping in GSO and that's Harris Teeter. They're a good store, but if you're on a budget Walmart may be the place to go because even HT's own label stuff is more expensive than some of the branded stuff at WMT. I suppose you could call Harris Teeter Fresh Market on a budget (Fresh Market, local chain like Whole Foods Market). However HT do have some deals and right now I have to go out my way to get to a WMT but HT is en-route, so HT tends to get my business if I need to pick up groceries at 2am.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

84. that sucks about your wife...

x(

thanks for replying :hi:

[Crabby Appleton]

85. We have a 24/7 walmart with groceries, a 24/7 KMart with groceries

and a 24/7 Kroger. Walmart is the cheapest, but the produce is not very good, KMart is a little more expensive but not much, produce much better. Kroger has the best produce but overall is more expensive. I hate lines and crowds so go shopping at 6-7 in the morning. I live in a smallish town (population about 20k) in the middle of nowhere, so I'm surprised that we have so many options for off hours shopping, but 3 largest employers here have shift workers so you see a lot of people that just got off work at odd hours.