Walmart Website Goes Haywire; Some Lucky Shoppers Get 98% Off
After Walmart.com accidentally offers eye-popping savings, some score amazing deals – and others wonder if their orders will be honored.
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As Long As You’re Not Brand Loyal, the Best Place to Shop Is…
If you’re looking to save by buying whatever brand is cheapest, which store has the rock-bottom cheapest prices of all?
Four Different Grocery Stores Win the “Walmart Challenge”
Walmart says its grocery prices can’t be beat – but it seems Bottom Dollar, Market Basket, Winco and Woodman’s are winning the challenge.
Walmart Worker Busted for Coupon Fraud on the Job
Oh, Walmart workers, when will you learn that coupon crime never pays? Well, actually, it appears to pay very well – at least until you’re caught. That’s what Elgin, Texas resident Cindy Hufford has become the latest to find out. The 42-year-old former employee of a Walmart store in North Austin has been formally charged with stealing more than $70,000[Read More…]
Walmart Enhances Ad Match, Embraces BOGOs
Grocery shoppers in Florida have been buzzing about a new wrinkle in Walmart’s ad match policy that could possibly, eventually, go nationwide. For the first time, Walmart is not just matching competitors’ advertised sale prices that are lower than its own – it’s beating them. And by a lot. The new wrinkle, introduced in Walmart stores across Florida last week,[Read More…]
How Much Do You “Like” Your Grocery Store?
You may like your local grocery store just fine, but it takes a real commitment to show the world – or at least your Facebook friends – that you “like” it. Occasional customer satisfaction surveys have declared certain supermarkets to be the most or least liked of all, but a look at how many grocery shoppers have hit the thumbs-up[Read More…]
Walmart Couponers Imprisoned for Stolen Stockpile
Acquiring a stockpile for the purpose of reselling it at a profit is always a controversial subject among couponers. Some say it’s an unseemly way to take advantage of the system, while others say the products are theirs to do with as they please, especially if they obtain everything honestly through savvy couponing. It’s when stockpiles are obtained less than[Read More…]
Broken Grocery Bags: A Minor Annoyance, Until Somebody Dies
Like the legendary “hot McDonald’s coffee in the lap” or the “finger found in the Wendy’s chili bowl”, it’s tempting to mock the merits of a lawsuit that blames Walmart for not double-bagging its groceries. Do we not have anything better to sue each other for? But it’s a little different when somebody dies. You can argue the merits of[Read More…]
Coupons Help Target Win the “Walmart Challenge”
In its ubiquitous receipt-comparison ad campaign, Walmart targets dozens of regional supermarkets and national drug store chains, in an effort to show that the typical shopper can save more by shopping at Walmart. But have you ever seen Walmart compare itself with Target? It hasn’t happened. Perhaps that’s because a new study shows that Target may be winning the “Walmart[Read More…]
Walmart Shoppers Dislike Walmart – But Keep Shopping at Walmart
Everyone loves a good popularity contest. Which is why, as you may have read this week, media outlets pounced on a survey that proclaimed Trader Joe’s the most popular grocery store in the country. Some even gleefully pointed out that Walmart was ranked as the “worst”. But the truth, as they say, is a little more complicated. The fact remains[Read More…]
