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I try to avoid shopping at Wal-Mart mainly because I disagree with many of their practices, and the low wages they pay their employees as well as their heavy handed attempts to block unionization. They have too many negative effects on communities, and many of their own workers need to rely on public assistance to make ends meet because they don't pay fair and realistic wages. Stores like Costco have already proven Wal-Mart's arguments wrong, they can pay their employees better - it's just means the CEO and other execs get less compensation, which is already very generous.
As for food, I don't have one place in particular that I do all my shopping at any more. I go to a handful of discount grocery stores to get some specific items that they offer much cheaper than anywhere else, then hit up one or two of the big chain grocers for my remaining items that I cannot find anywhere else. I generally shop at Save-A-Lot and farmers markets, then go to Giant Eagle or Heinen's for the rest of my stuff.
For household goods, it's kind of the same story. I will buy some off brand stuff at the dollar stores, such as brooms, mops, batteries, aspirin, etc... but some items such as detergent or soaps, I will buy name brand because the dollar store ones are way too diluted and weak. They're not really saving me anything at all if I need to use twice as much of them. It's usually a combination of Target and Dollar General.
As for food, I don't have one place in particular that I do all my shopping at any more. I go to a handful of discount grocery stores to get some specific items that they offer much cheaper than anywhere else, then hit up one or two of the big chain grocers for my remaining items that I cannot find anywhere else. I generally shop at Save-A-Lot and farmers markets, then go to Giant Eagle or Heinen's for the rest of my stuff.
For household goods, it's kind of the same story. I will buy some off brand stuff at the dollar stores, such as brooms, mops, batteries, aspirin, etc... but some items such as detergent or soaps, I will buy name brand because the dollar store ones are way too diluted and weak. They're not really saving me anything at all if I need to use twice as much of them. It's usually a combination of Target and Dollar General.
