Marnie and I were at Walmart today. He got our usual cart full of ... well pretty much nothing healthy to eat. But we are going to try and eat at home rather than eat out all the time.
ANYWAY....
So the lady in front of us has a cart full of groceries as well. And she busts out with her pocket size notebook. Marnie is like "oh geez, she's probably got all the prices from the other stores and plans on getting the price match guarentee." And I say, "it's probably just her shopping list". Well it turns out Marnie was right. We waited while this woman went through about 40-50 items that she wanted a better price on. Marnie and I stood there for about 20-30 minutes while this lady save a buck or two here and there. Well, me being impatient like I am and well...passive aggressive, I just stood there and had a bad attitude about it.
Marnie goes to the people behind us, "dont' worry about us, we won't be doing that." The old guy responded with "why not? If it saves you money, why wouldn't you do that, heck we do." So...Marnie gets owned by this guy, 15 minutes later the lady gets finished with her price match and she totals about $89 or so. We roll up next, the checker looks relieved to be done with her and she rings up our stuff. We have a little less in our cart and ours comes to $150 or so. Now granted, we don't buy generic stuff, we buy a lot of premade dinners and the higher end ice cream.
The Moral of the story is ... it's good to be a yuppie.
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Dude. Those people drive me nuts. Price matching is retarded. Just go to the store that HAS the better price if you want it. Otherwise there is no point to ANY FREAKING SALE.
I think the moral of the story is really, nobody should be shopping at WalMart. As you learned firsthand, there is a 'high cost of low price' (appropriately this is also the name of a documentary on the god-awful chain).
How is it Walmart's fault?
In an effort to help compete in an already crowded marketplace, they are offering a marketing program that will help them carve out their market share. The problem I have is when people take it to the extreme and they want price matching on every single item in their cart.
There is nothing more wrong with walmart than any of the other big companies. And I don't even like them that much. But price mathching is STUPID at any store.
In fact there is something more wrong with WalMart as compared to other big companies. Check out the documentary.
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