ah wal-mart, the place you love to hate or hate to love. i have a few fond memories of when i was in my late teens and early 20s being broke and sober and having nothing to do, so my friends and i would go here late at night just for something to do. obviously, it's cheap and convenient, and that's why people go here. i really do try to find things in other places before i go here, but sometimes i come here as a last resort, and not every time i find what i'm looking for. other times i do find exactly what i was looking for at other stores and coudn't find, but i still feel guilty buying things here because of how they pay their workers. one big gripe that i have is that they have very little, if any, NY Mets merchandise. i really wanted to get a shirt or a hat earlier, but all i could find was NY Giants, NY Yankees, and BU Bratcats merch. The Mets just won the National League Championship, let's see some damn support!!
Their clothing is hit or miss. i usually come here in the fall looking for flannel shirts, and while they have them, they don't have any that i like. they sell Dickies work clothes, which is nice, and i also use their cheap jeans for work too, but when it comes to casual clothes to wear out in public i don't like any pants they sell here. They also sell Pink Floyd shirts. Pink Floyd is boring and lame, they should sell NY Mets shirts instead. finding swim trunks here in August was also very difficult, it boggles my mind that they didn't have them in stock before labor day, a lot of people go swimming on labor day weekend.
They do have a lot of pros for their grocery section. they are one of the cheapest places you can get cashews, which are great on brownies. they have an ok selection of BBQ sauces and hot sauce. lots of good frozen foods and an ok bakery. they used to have these soda cakes there a while back and they were really good but i haven't seen them there in years. they also used to have ok donuts, and they were super cheap if you bought them late at night, but they stopped selling those because there's a dunkin donuts in the store now. one reason i go here is because they are one of only 2 places around that sells a certain cut of meat i like at a decent price. i'm not gunna tell you what it is though because i don't want you yelpers buyin it before i do next time i want it! i wouldn't buy their ribs or pork shoulders though, the brand they use packs their pork with a salt solution as a preservative, you're better off going to wegmans for fresher meat.
their electronics department is decent. sometimes i feel like i paid too much for new releases knowing that a few months down the road they would be a lot cheaper, but that's my fault for being impatient. they do have some deals that are too good to pass up though.
overall, you should really be supporting other businesses, but sometimes this place is hard to pass up. i do like the self checkout, but even with that sometimes the lines are too long. i've been there before when i didn't find the main thing i wanted but still found a few other things, and then i saw the long lines and set my stuff down and left. at least sometimes you can get some good people watching stories out of the place. read more